The Arizona Cardinals are a professional  football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the  Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National  Football League (NFL). The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest  continuously run professional American football club in the United States.[1]

  The team was  established in Chicago  in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in 1920.

  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 moved to St.    Louis, Missouri, in  1960 and played in that city through 1987 (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 2006, the club began  playing all home games at the newly constructed University  of Phoenix Stadium in the northwestern  suburb of Glendale.

  The franchise  has two NFL championships, both while it was based in Chicago. The first occurred in 1925, but is  the subject of controversy, with supporters of the Pottsville Maroons believing  that Pottsville  should have gotten the title. Their second title, and the first to be received  through a championship game, came in 1947, two decades before the first Super  Bowl game was played. In the six-plus decades since winning the championship in  1947, the team suffered many losing seasons. They have been to the playoffs six  times and have won six playoff games, three of which were victories during  their run in the 2008-09 NFL Playoffs. During that season, they reached Super  Bowl XLIII. The team has also won four division titles (1974, 1975, 2008, and  2009) since their 1947–1948 NFL championship game appearances. In addition, the  club won one NFC Championship Game in 2008.

The Cardinals  conduct their annual summer training camp at Northern  Arizona University  in Flagstaff.