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Arizona Cardinals Milestones

Order these Arizona Cardinals franchise moments by the year they happened. Place all 29 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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How Arizona Cardinals Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

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28 of the 29 cards you could be dealt, plus 1 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Founded as the Morgan Athletic Club Chris O'Brien's South Side Chicago neighborhood team began what is now the oldest continuously run franchise in pro football
  • The 'Cardinal red' name is born O'Brien bought faded hand-me-down maroon jerseys from the University of Chicago and declared their color cardinal
  • NFL charter member As the Racine Cardinals, the club joined the brand-new American Professional Football Association at its founding
  • Became the Chicago Cardinals Dropped 'Racine', which came from a Chicago avenue rather than the Wisconsin city, to represent the whole town
  • Claimed an NFL championship Awarded the league title after the Pottsville Maroons were suspended, a crown Pottsville partisans still dispute
  • Ernie Nevers scored 40 points His six touchdowns and four extra points in one game against the Bears remain the NFL's oldest standing record
  • Merged into Card-Pitt Wartime player shortages forced a one-season combination with Pittsburgh so winless it was mocked as the 'Car-Pitts'
  • Won the NFL Championship Charley Trippi and the 'Million Dollar Backfield' beat the Eagles on an icy field at Comiskey Park for the franchise's last title
  • Blizzard title-game loss A championship rematch with Philadelphia was decided 7-0 in a snowstorm so thick the yard lines vanished
  • Moved to St. Louis Left Chicago, where the club had long played second fiddle to the Bears, for Missouri
  • Moved into Busch Memorial Stadium The 'Big Red' left old Sportsman's Park for a new downtown multipurpose bowl they shared with baseball
  • Hired Don Coryell An offensive innovator arrived from San Diego State and soon had the 'Cardiac Cards' flying
  • First division title in decades Jim Hart and Terry Metcalf clinched the NFC East for the club's first postseason trip since the Truman administration
  • Drafted Ottis Anderson A Miami runner taken eighth overall who immediately rushed for more than 1,600 yards as a rookie
  • Moved to Phoenix Bill Bidwill took the franchise to the desert, where it played at Sun Devil Stadium under the city's name
  • Drafted Aeneas Williams A third-round cornerback from Southern University began a Hall of Fame career
  • Renamed the Arizona Cardinals The state, not the city, went on the letterhead the same offseason Buddy Ryan arrived declaring 'You've got a winner in town'
  • Snapped the playoff drought Jake Plummer's 9-7 club reached the postseason for the first time since the strike-shortened tournament year
  • First playoff win in half a century Upset the Cowboys in Dallas for the franchise's first postseason victory since its championship season
  • Pat Tillman left for the Army The starting safety turned down a lucrative new contract and enlisted with his brother in the wake of September 11th
  • Drafted Larry Fitzgerald New coach Dennis Green took a Pitt receiver he had known as a Vikings ball boy with the third overall pick
  • Opened their Glendale stadium Moved off Arizona State's campus into a domed venue with a roll-out natural grass field
  • Hired Ken Whisenhunt The Steelers' offensive coordinator took over and had the team in a Super Bowl within two seasons
  • Played in Super Bowl XLIII Larry Fitzgerald's late go-ahead touchdown was answered by Santonio Holmes's toe-tap catch with 35 seconds left
  • Kurt Warner retired The resurrected star called it a career days after a playoff loss in New Orleans
  • Hired Bruce Arians The veteran 'quarterback whisperer' arrived and paired with Carson Palmer for the franchise's best stretch in Arizona
  • Franchise-best 13-3 season Carson Palmer's finest year carried the club to its most regular-season wins ever and an NFC title game trip soon after
  • Drafted Kyler Murray first overall New coach Kliff Kingsbury landed a Heisman Trophy winner who chose football over the Oakland A's

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