They have the highlights from that year on Hulu too.

I was never able to to one of the games at Sun Devil Stadium even though I don’t live very far away from it since my parents never wanted to spend any money on the games back then.

I have been to a couple of games at University of Phoenix Stadium [the Rams game where they actually had the roof open!] and the crowd was good there. I am glad that there are more fans now, but I am worried about how many of them would leave if the Cardinals have a bad year.

I have always been a fan of the team, even when they sucked. I would always root for them, even though I was expecting failure. It was nice to see things start to turn around the last three years.

I read through his analysis and the criteria he set up in the beginning doesn’t seem to match his reasoning’s in each respective teams articles.
Another thing, I really don’t get how bandwagon fans are the worst thing in sports? I mean are not most fans a bandwagon fan at sometime that for some reason or another decided to stay hitched? I was born in LA and my family is from LA, I should be a die hard Lakers fan but I am not (I admit a dirty secret, while I am not a DIE hard fan, I still like Kobe and Lakers). The first team I rooted for and began to watch regularly were the 49ers. My dad thought Montana was the second coming and Young his first disciple. Yet I moved to AZ and jumped on the AZ bandwagon in 2004 when my favorite college player was drafted to the team. Who knew 6 years later a Card loss in the postseason would actually lead me to drink… Now granted, not all fans stay hitched and many move on but that’s with EVERY sport. You have to win to keep fans, and bandwagon fans show that the team is moving in the right direction IMO. Ie Colts and Saints.
Sure you have fans in the “storied” franchises that were “born in,” ie, Grandfather was a Stealers fan, Dad was a Stealers fan, therefor I am a Stealers fan (again, just an example. Obviously I have no love for the Stealers). But that doesn’t take away from the fact that most fans, and especially out-of-area fans are just that, bandwagon fans. I only knew two Stealer fans in California before the last SB and all of sudden I couldn’t walk anywhere without running into a Terrible Towel. People I had known forever who were dawning Stealer colors or emblems would explain, “oh my dads, brothers, former wife lived in Pittsburgh and we got along well, that’s why it’s okay for me to like the Stealers and why I am not a bandwagon fan like these other dudes…” or “I have always been a Stealers fan! My mom’s family is from Pittsburgh” when I know they have a Charger banner in their room…
Bandwagon fans are apart of the game and I see no negatives in it. Only the elitists and those who have nothing of substance to say or argue rag on teams for having/being a “bunch of bandwagon fans.”
One more thing that I would like to argue, though I admit it isn’t the strongest argument. The greater Pittsburgh area has about 2.5 million people. That’s just under half of Arizona’s population (5.9 Mil). Honestly I think Green Bay should be the number 1 fan base. I mean people hand down their season tickets in their wills… Having the 49ers 10th? One of the greatest dynasties ever, where their fans DOMINATE California, being in the third largest state in the US and their only ten?… KC in the top 5? What? Give me a break. I’ll take Cleveland (you can’t compete with “The Pound”, Pitt, SF, Dallas, and GB in some order, and that’s debatable.

Cardinals “Fans” have earned this 30th place ranking. Let’s be honest, far too often our stands are filled with half Cards jerseys and half away team jerseys. What is pathetic and I hear it regularly is fans that say, “the Cardinals are my second favorite team.” This seems to be the case most of the time. Consider the Packer game at the end of this last regular season. I’m willing to bet that a large portion of those Packer fans also had Cardinals jerseys at home.

This is to be expected, though, if you consider that Arizona hasn’t even had the team for a full generation, so to speak. Fans that are just now able to purchase season tickets were probably about 5-10 years old when the team moved here. It’s the older fans, the ones who can buy tickets to more games, that make up most of the fan base. And, unfortunately, most of those fans grew up cheering for other teams.

Because of this, I’m willing to be we see an enormous increase in fan support over the next 5-10 years as younger Cardinals fans start going to more games and the true supporters who’ve grown up in Arizona with the Cardinals always being here will start weeding out the older fans.

Make sense?

My situation is unique. First off I don’t live in AZ but decided to be a Cards fan for the rest of my life in the 2006 offseason by conscious decision. I’d really always liked them and my brother lived in AZ for 15 years and I loved vacationing there. To me it wasn’t jumping on a bandwagon, because they had a bad record in 2005. I hadn’t lived in my state of birth with my old team for 10 years so I had no personal connection to them anymore. I say “XXXXs fan by birth, Cards fan by choice”

I do know one other guy who lives in my area, who decided he was a Cards fan the day Dallas signed TO (no I don’t live in TX either). Can’t say I blame him. So this apparently does happen!

So hey I’m on the Big Red Bandwagon, or rather I was on it before it existed, before Whisenhunt and well before SB43. For me, the day I get off that bandwagon is when its time to get in the hearse

As far as second faves, personally it has to be an AFC team. I like the Dolphins but it’s not the same and rooting for them vs Big Red would never enter my mind. And as far as my team of birth/birthplace… I wish them well like I would an ex-wife, but I ain’t goin back.

but was able to come back for a few games at SDS and UoP. I remember watching the Quincy Carter led Jets beat the Cards like 13-10 one Thanksgiving at SDS when i was visiting my brother. Luckily, he has season tickets at UoP and I can go to any game I can fly in for. Have only been to 1 reg season game at UoP (Cardinals over Steelers in 2007—The Breaston Punt Return was amazing) and was fortunate enough to go to the NFC Championship game against the Eagles last season.

I can’t say that I have a 2nd favorite team, even though I’ve lived in PA longer than I lived in AZ. To me, you have a favorite team, one that you live and die for, and some teams that you don’t necessarily hate.