Did you know that before the Cardinals moved from St. Louis to Arizona in `88 that the team called Chicago home for the first 60+ years of their existence? It’s true! The Cardinals started in Chicago as The Morgan Athletic Club in 1898. The team soon changed their name to the Racine (after a street name in Chicago) Cardinals, even borrowing used uniforms from the Univeristy of Chicago. In 1920, the team payed their $100 due to become a charter member of the National Football League. Around this time, the team changed its name once again to the Chicago Cardinals and started playing their home games at the White Sox stadium, Comiskey park. In 1947, twenty years before the creation of the Super Bowl, the Cardinals won the NFL Championship against Philadelphia 28-21. The next year, the Cardinals had an even better season than the year before, but lost a rematch with Philadelphia in the championship game under blizzard weather conditions 7 – 0. However, today the team is probably most known for losing 29 straight games, finally breaking the streak with a win over the Chicago Bears. In 1960, the team left Chicago for the Gateway City, St. Louis. Check out more Chicago Cardinals history here.
Below, the 1947 NFL Champs:
