Order by the year each player joined the Arizona Cardinals. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Cardinals from across the franchise's long life are the cards, ordered by the year each first joined. Every card prints a position abbreviation, such as WR, S or DE. One player starts on the line with his year visible. With each card you draw, you pick a gap among the players already down. Pick right and the year appears; pick wrong and he still lands in his true place, but one of your three lives is gone.
The Cardinals are one of the oldest franchises in pro football, and they've called Chicago, St. Louis and Arizona home. The deck begins in the Chicago years and follows the team through each city, including the recent run of competitive Arizona teams. Receivers and running backs lead the printed positions, with quarterbacks next. The long St. Louis stretch is where things get murky.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.