Arizona Cardinals

John Skelton Just Ehh in Arizona Cardinals Practice For Next Year With Denver Broncos

www.azcardinals.comArizona Cardinals' rookie QB John Skelton.​The Arizona Cardinals won a football game!That's the good news. The bad news: who cares?The Cards bested the Denver Broncos in a 43-13 blowout in Glendale on Sunday, and C-squad quarterback John Skelton was spectacularly average.Skelton ... More >>

High School Football Championships (Oddly) Start In A Few Hours

What happened to the good old days, when Arizona's large-school football championship games were held on Saturday, starting in the afternoon and moving into the evening?   ​Something about the National Football League and its contractual arrangement with its teams (the Arizona Cardinals ... More >>

San Francisco Treat

After all the trash talk, the 49ers come to play

Arizona Cardinals Fall to Seattle for Fourth Loss in a Row

​As the saying goes, the best defense is a good offense. The Arizona Cardinals have neither a good offense or a good defense, which was apparent in their 36-18 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. The loss was the Cards' fourth in a row and leaves Seattle alone in the top spot in the dismal NFC ... More >>

Cardinals Sin

AZ tries to de-sanctify the Super Bowl champs

Arizona Cardinals' Luck Comes to an End; Crushed by San Diego Chargers

​Just when we thought the Arizona Diamondbacks and Jan Brewer were the most embarrassing things about living in Arizona, the Arizona Cardinals went ahead and played a game of football with the San Diego Chargers yesterday.The Cards got crushed.The 41-10 loss was testament to everything the Cards h ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Get Political -- Not on Immigration, On Medical Weed

www.gohastings.com​Like the Phoenix Suns, the Arizona Cardinals have decided to get political.Don't expect to see any Los Cardinals jerseys, or anything immigration related -- the Cards sat out the whole SB 1070 debate (it was the off-season). The Cardinals are throwing their political weight (and ... More >>

The Arizona Cardinals: Questions Aplenty As Training Camp Starts Tomorrow

ssur.orgWill the Cardinals make the playoffs for the third-straight year? ​ After being a doormat in the NFL for decades, the Cardinals have put together back-to-back solid seasons that even included a trip to the Super Bowl two years ago. But the roster turnover between this season and last has ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Single-Game Tickets On Sale Saturday

ssur.org​Fear not, Cardinals fans. Your time is almost here. With the D-Backs not turning any heads lately and the Suns and Coyotes not generating much news, it's time to focus on football again. Even if it's just the announcement that single-game tickets for the 2010 season go on sale this Satu ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Are 30th Valuable Sports Franchise In World

ssur.org​ Of the hundreds of sports franchises in the world, the Arizona Cardinals are worth quite the pretty penny. According to Forbes magazine, the Cards rank as the 30th most valuable sports team in the world. The value of the team, owned by William Bidwill, is a hefty $935 million and the C ... More >>

Marc Bulger the Cardinals' Next Kurt Warner? That's the Rumor, Anyway

www.theredzonereport.comMarc Bulger to the Cards?​After dropping $7.25 million on signing Derek Anderson to play backup to Matt Leinart, the Arizona Cardinals are rumored to be in the beginning stages of making a run at signing former St. Louis Rams quarterback Marc Bulger.The word on the street i ... More >>

Kurt Warner Ends Rumors of Return With Exclamation-Point-Filled Tweet

www.gaullet.com​Yesterday, NBC sports analyst Mike Florio planted the seeds for rumors of former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner's triumphant return to the gridiron.When Warner retired at the end of last season, we thought he made it pretty clear that he had no intention of pullin' ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 13, 2010

Wanna Bet? The Tohono O'odham Want to Build a Casino in the West Valley -- Now It's Up to the Feds to Make It Happen or Break Another Promise to the Tribe

AZ BBQ Festival, Pigs & Pinot, School Gardens, AZ Asian Festival, and National Fondue Day in Today's Eater's Digest

An early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives. ​ Get ready for a busy weekend, folks. With so much going on around the Valley it's going to be hard to choose what to miss! First up is the Arizona Barbecue Festival, happening Saturday, April 10th at the Scottsd ... More >>

Hot Links: Earthquakes, Scooter Accident, and Phoenix Suns

​A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Baja, California yesterday. The quake rocked high-rise buildings in San Diego and Los Angeles. A number of surrounding areas have also reported feeling aftershocks, including residents across Phoenix...Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies are searching for three men w ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Sign Kicker Jay Feeley

www.passiontruth.comArizona Cardinals new kicker Jay Feeley​The Arizona Cardinals announced today that the team has signed kicker Jay Feeley, even though negotiations with the Cards current kicker, Neil Rackers, are still sort of going on.Feeley played last season with the New York Jets, where he ... More >>

Wrestlemania vs. Paul McCartney: Why Glendale Needs to be Superplexed Through a Table

On nights when events at both University of Phoenix Stadium and Jobing.com Arena are booked simultaneously, Glendale becomes hell on earth.​This Sunday is one of the biggest nights in Glendale's history. Wrestlemania XXVI -- the "sport's" marquee event -- will be held inside University of Phoenix ... More >>

Mug Shot of the Week: Cardinals Super Fan

​This is one of the few haircuts we've ever seen that may be dumber than the "blown out" Long Island locks Paulie D sports on the Jersey Shore. This Arizona Cardinals super-fan was originally seen on The Smoking Gun and his mug was brought to our attention by our friends a ... More >>

Cardinals Get Blown Out in a Disappointing Conclusion to a Streaky Season

www.zimbio.com​"[The Cardinals] defense is effing worthless" and "if Neil Rackers has a job tomorrow I'm becoming a Saints fan" were two of several utterances that could be overheard at the Cadillac Ranch in Tempe by disgruntled fans after the Cards 45-14 loss to the New Orleans Saints ... More >>

NFL Playoffs: Somehow, We Were Perfect Last Week. Here's This Week's Picks

We make it a practice (once) every year of making the trek to Vegas and donating money to the "cause," that is, those poor casinos, by wagering on all manner of sporting events.   ​Unfortunately, we were not up there last week to put down our hard-earned shekels on the four Natio ... More >>

Cardinals Sendoff Rally Scheduled for Friday; Why Do Politicians Get Involved in This Stuff?

​The sendoff rally for the Arizona Cardinals is set for Friday morning at Sky Harbor International Airport, and the Cards want you there.The Cardinals are heading to New Orleans to face the Saints on Saturday afternoon, and the team is inviting fans to come to the airport for a pep rally to ge ... More >>

No Pants Ride, Neil Hamburger, Cardinals vs. Packers, and Cherry Lounge Over the Weekend

​No Pants Ride Invades the Light Rail and Downtown Phoenix In conjunction with Improv Everywhere's No Pants Subway Ride in New York, half naked people in cities around the world enjoyed freedom from pants on public transit on Saturday, January 10, 2010. In Phoenix, Improv AZ organized two team ... More >>

Dining Deals for Cardinals Fans

​Fandom has its privileges, even if you're a bandwagoneer. So just in time for the NFL playoffs, it's smart to be an Arizona Cardinals fan if only for the free and cheap eats it'll get you. The better the team does, the more of these deals we'll likely see. At Rubio's Fresh Mexican Gri ... More >>

Revenge of the Birds

Cards look to squash the Pack attack

Ten Random Thoughts as the Oughts (2000-2009) Fade Away

The following are 10 random things that, at the start of this weird decade, we never would have believed: ​1. That the historically pathetic Arizona Cardinals would move out to bumfuck Egypt (a.k.a. Glendale, a.k.a. sweet deal), and then would (at the end of the decade) find themselves e ... More >>

Cardinals Cruise Past St. Louis to Win Ten Games in a Season for the First Time Since 1976

​In a football culture where winning ten games in two seasons was often a milestone, for the first time in Arizona history the state has an NFL football team that has won ten games in a single season. But it hasn't come without its ups-and-downs. The Cards beat up on the St. Louis R ... More >>

Cards Eek Out a Win Against Lowly Detroit Lions; Clinch Playoff Spot and NFC West Title

​The Arizona Cardinals will be heading to the playoffs again this season thanks to a 31-24 win over the Detroit Lions yesterday in the dreary Motor City. Unfortunately, that's about the only good news coming out of Sunday's narrow victory. For the second week in a row -- and despite winning t ... More >>

Will The Cardinals Beat the Lions or Will the Cards Beat Themselves? After Last Week, It's Anyone's Guess

​If you're a Cardinals fan, you're probably still trying to figure out what the hell happened on Monday night, when the Cards got lit up against the San Francisco 49ers. Here's what happened: The Cardinals beat themselves. When a team turns the ball over seven times, the opposi ... More >>

Cardinals Crushed by 49ers; Turn the Ball Over Seven Times in Embarrassing Loss

​For anyone who watched the Arizona Cardinals beat down Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings last week and then saw the Redbirds get crushed by the San Francisco 49ers last night, you may have the same reaction we did: What the fuck happened? The Cardinals made history last night in the 24-9 ... More >>

Cardinals Shut Down Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings; Next Stop: San Francisco

​When Tim Hightower fumbled on the opening drive of the Cardinals 30-17 win over the Minnesota Vikings last night in Glendale, and the Vikings marched down the field to score with ease, you couldn't help but to think, "Okay, here comes a classic Brett Favre beat-down." Fortunately, that was a ... More >>

Prime Numbers

It’s Warner vs. Favre in NFC shootout

Cardinals-Vikings Game Gets Moved to Prime Time; It's Not Too Often Quarterbacks With a Combined Age Of 78 Meet On the Field

ChopsRock​When given the option of an exciting wildcat offense and a stud quarterback, or two middle-aged guys in the twilight of their careers, NBC is going with the latter.NBC has decided to show the Arizona Cardinals a little love this season and has opted to move the Cards December 6 gam ... More >>

Still Perfect; Cardinals Beat the St. Louis Rams to Remain Undefeated On The Road

Matt Leinart​Considering the Cardinals dismal road performance last season, did you ever think you'd hear these words: The Arizona Cardinals are now 5-0 on the road. For the first time since 1948, back when the team was the Chicago Cardinals, the nomadic franchise has managed to w ... More >>

Can '09 Redbirds Go 8-0 on the Road? First, They Have to Get by a Super Bowl of Sorts in St. Louis.

It's slippery, slashing Rams RB Steven Jackson vs. Arizona's nutty road-field advantage on Sunday in St. Louis.​ Talk about a daft stat. If the Arizona Cardinals get back to the Super Bowl in 2010, it'll likely be thanks to their nutty road-field advantage. Sitting pretty with a road recor ... More >>

Home, Sweet Home? The Cardinals Will Actually Try to Win in Glendale Against the Struggling Seattle Seahawks

Will the real Kurt Warner please stand up?​ Not much good has happened for the 3-5 Seattle Seahawks since the Arizona Cardinals smoked them on October 18 at Qwest Field by a 27-3 count. (Arizona outgained Seattle in total yardage, 344 to 128.) The next week, they were manhandled by the Dal ... More >>

Home, Sweep Home

Redbirds look for a tide-turning W at UofP

Cardinals Will Try to Ruin Jake Delhomme and the Carolina Panthers' Day Once Again on Sunday

Man, is this guy struggling or what?​ Remember when the Arizona Cardinals used to ruin the careers of their own players? Well, it's nice, for once, to see them do it to an opponent. Rewind to January 10, when the Cards went to Charlotte for an NFC Divisional Playoff game. QB Jake ... More >>

Arizona Cardinals Visit a Sleeping Giant in the Seattle Seahawks

Seattle QB Matt Hasselbeck may be bald and married, but he's not a wimp.​ On par with the ascension of the Denver Broncos and the complete collapse of the Tennessee Titans is the threatening-on-complete-resurgence of the Seattle Seahawks. Now, how is that possible, considering that the NFC Wes ... More >>

Cards Hang On to Beat Texans; Rodgers-Cromartie Saves the Day

Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie performed some late-game heroics in the Cards victory over Houston on Sunday​The Cardinals' (2-2) 28-21 victory over the Houston Texans (2-3) Sunday in Glendale came in a way that would even raise the blood pressure the 1980 "Kardiac Kid" Cleveland ... More >>

Cardinals' Sin

Is Arizona going the way of the pre-2008 Redbirds?

Hot Links: Standoffs, Ripoffs, and Blackouts

​A Yuma man is in custody after an almost nine-hour standoff with police. Michael McCormick was wanted in connection with several vehicle thefts and burglaries. When police tracked him to a motel, he fled and broke into a trailer home, where the standoff ensued. He eventually surrendered and was t ... More >>

Jeb Bush Comes to Town, and Now Legislative Leaders Want to Change the Language Used to Rate Schools; This Ought to Fix Everything!

www.thewashingtonnote.com Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his big brother.​Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was in town today to speak with legislative leaders about how to improve Arizona's troubled K-12 education system.Wanna know what they came up with? Get ready to laugh, or cry.

Things Are Getting Back To Normal In Glendale; Cards Look Like Crap In Loss to San Francisco

www.nfldotcom.com Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals put on a laughable performance in Glendale yesterday. These guys really almost won the Super Bowl?​ After nearly not selling out on opening day, after a lackluster training camp, after a quiet off-season, and after winning the NFC Cham ... More >>

NFL Regular Season's Finally Here! Cardinals Begin Defense of NFC Championship Sunday Against 49ers at U of P

SF head coach Mike Singletary and his team won't be the patsies of the past on Sunday.​ How much stock should one put in a team's performance during the NFL preseason? In our opinion, not a damn thing. That's why Arizona Cardinals' fans should give a rousing "so what?" and "who cares?" when ... More >>

Meat 'N' Greet

Missed tailgating and football? They’re back.

Bird-Watching Society

Shout your love to the rooftops at season-opening fan bash

Hot Links: Cardinals Concessions, Suggs, and Butter Jackson

The cash-strapped Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority has made a deal with the Arizona Cardinals to have the NFL team operate concessions at University of Phoenix stadium, beginning in 2010. The Cardinals will market the stadium for sponsorships and non-football events, but officials for the stadiu ... More >>

Hot Links: Swine Flu, Cardinals, and Jedi Mind Tricks

Although no cases of swine flu have been reported in Arizona, officials are taking precautions: The Arizona Department of Health is talking with Centers for Disease Control, doctors are urging people with flu-like symptoms to stay home from work, and US Airways is waiving its change fees fo ... More >>