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The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in.

Along with the Chicago Bears, the club is one of two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding.

( The Green Bay Packers were an independent team until they joined the NFL in 1921 ).

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

Other less commonly used nicknames were the " Gridbirds " ( used only by a local newspaper columnist ) or " Cardiac Cards " ( used only to refer to the 1975 team ).

Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.

In, the club began playing all home games at the newly constructed University of Phoenix Stadium in the northwestern suburb of Glendale.