What's in a Name... Part 2?

Became cards fan in 98 when plummer took us to the divisions. Never valued another team more than arizona, hate the cowboys. And i saw in person aeneas end youngs career.

I chose jetstreamgreen81 to describe my favorite Cardinal growing up Roy ‘Jetstream’
Green. #81 and a great WR. He held the record for the longest kickoff return of 106 yards until the last several years and when he broken into the league, he played CB as well as WR. WR is my favorite position so naturally, he was my favorite player and I was glad Q got his # to represent it. I also hate the Cowboys,Redskins and Fortyniners growing up a Cards fan and playing in the NFC East. Glad we are in the West and ready for the Cards to repeat again as division champs for the 3rd year in a row.

I for one, would like to promote posters to take it a step further like above and mention where you are from, currently reside, or both. I find it interesting the various places represented by Cardinals fans across the globe.

AJ’s not my name, just stands for the town I grew up in, Apache Junction, AZ. Birdwatcher doesn’t really mean anything, just some lame screenname I picked when I joined the site 2 years ago. Only been a fan for about 5 years, since that’s when I got into football.

I’m finally back in the desert after construction projects in New Mexico and Utah over the last 5 years.

when I chose my name. I was surprised to find this site when I came across it (like most I’m sure there were times when we figured we roamed the planet alone as self-proclaimed Cardinals fans), and wanted to interact with the topics being discussed to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. Anyways, I figured most of the team related names would be taken so I picked the city I live in to avoid going through the whole, “this name is taken routine.”

I was born and raised in Oregon, which as everyone knows doesn’t have an NFL team. After high school I joined the USAF and was stationed at Luke AFB so I adopted the Cards as my new favorite team since it was the first city/metro area I lived in that had one. As noted above/in the name, I now live in Long Beach, CA. (Real name is Mike Ellingboe).

I think that one is easy to figure out.

I’ve been a Cardinals fan all my life. I always rooted for the home team even when most of the games were blacked out and they were just looking awful. And like my sig says I also grew up liking the Bears because of my dad who was born in Chicago. The Cardinals are still the team I’m 100% loyal to though.

and my name is Rob Loosli. But I love the Cardinals more than anything (except my wife and family) and have ever since I was an 8 year old in Mesa and the Cardinals moved to town. Hev, bless you for being a part of our military. Thanks for what you’ve done.

Jesse, my name, SB (Santa Barbara), my town.
I also think the 602 is Andrews area code in PHX? My guess.
I was born in CA but raised in near in between Sedona and Prescott, AZ. Been a Cards fan since 01 when I started playing football in high school.

Surprise surprise, I was born and raised in Alaska. I started becoming interested in sports in 1993 when I was 7, my family took a trip to AZ to visit family right at the time the Suns were playing the Bulls in the finals. Of course everyone was rooting for the Suns, so I did too. Once football season rolled around, hey Arizona has a football team! So I rooted for them too. 17 years later everyone still asks me why an Alaskan would root for the Cardinals. Everyone up there is a Seahawks, 49ers, and Cowboys fan (it’s a pretty terrible place to live for a Cardinals fan). To this day I think I’ve only ever seen three other people wearing Cardinals jerseys in Alaska. Unfortunately I’ve left the state I love and am currently living in Florida, which is way too ridiculously hot, but I’m still proud to be THE Alaskan Cardinals fan.

It was ‘95 the year after the Cows won back to back SB’s that I became a fan of the Cardinals. I was born in Cleveland and 95% of family are Browns fans through and through. So with that, I started at age 6 watching the Brownies in all their glory and their infamous meltdowns until ‘91. I never was a Browns fan per say but a fan of football growing up in a Browns family. ’91 through ’94 I was just a fan of the game of football and in ’95 I said to myself it was time to pick my own team to stick with as a fan. So I bought a NFL preseason magazine with all the updated rosters and such and went through it cover to cover dozens of times. I ultimately decided on the Cardinals(as I am sure you guessed) for a ton of reasons but if I had to choose one it would be either Frank Sanders or Larry Centers. I had watched highlights/bits of games of Rob Moore, Frank, LC, Hearst, A. Williams, K. Lassiter, J. Miller, E. Swann etc. and enjoyed what I saw as well as believed they were an up and coming team. I have to go off topic a bit and say LC is one of if not the most underrated and under appreciated FB’s of all time IMHO. Anyway, that’s my accounting for my following of the AZ Cardinals.

hevchv just wanted to say I most certainly appreciate the sacrifices you and your fellow soldiers have made/are making for myself and all of us as citizens of the U.S.

I was a 49ers fan until 94 when my pops friend invited us to a game it was in the hot asu stadium and it was awesome being my first live game I loved it then in 95 we got season tickets and I have been becoming more and more die hard every year since. The name DaCards comes from the ditka sketch on SNL love me some SNL (saturday night live) but not a big bears fan so that’s how I got my name I think it was 2 years ago I started on this site it was before the SB run for sure

Almost forget about this. Guess we should make this a yearly offseason tradition.

Well as for me, I’m born and raised in Arizona. I actually wasn’t a big Cardinals fan growing up considering they rarely won. The big thing that won me over was the signing of Emmitt Smith in 2003. Although he never did much here, I can say I’m glad he did join otherwise I dont know if we’d be having this conversation. The cherry on top was the win against the Vikings in 2003(one of my favorites). Something took over and I became a hardcore fanatic. I’m probably the only one of my friends/family/coworkers that knows every last thing about the Cardinals. Anytime I see an item with a Cardinals logo on it, I must buy it. Regardless of what it is. My car is Cardinal’d out, my girlfriend(who never thought she’d be a fan loves the team now), I’ve gotten a Cardinal bird shaved on my head, my kids will be Cardinal fans, I am very close to getting the bird tattoo’d on my arm, and I’ll be hardcore for the rest of my life.

As for my name, it’s Andrew, and my area code is 602. Pretty simple. I found this site halfway through the 2008 season, began writing fanposts on my own, was added as a writer, and as most of you know, took over last season.

Maybe we should do some more “get to know you” posts before the season starts.

Where the hell do I start……..???

Paco is my name, and cab are the first three leters of my last name… I am a fan from south of the border, from Hermosillo, I travel to most of the games and have been a fan since the old Joe Bugel and Steve Beurlein days… I am 27, but my father used to take me to games when I was a kid… one of the best days in my life was being at the stadium for the NFC championship, amazing day, the happiest place on earth for one day… GO CARDINALS

Loving the stories, wish mine was more original, but …

pthesz – name is Pat Thesz, also use it for yahoo and gmail and fantasy, etc.

I’m a valley native so when the Cards arrived I became insta-fan and have been ever since. Sure is nice being able to say with pride that I’m a Cardinals fan instead of waiting for the derision.

Hey, HevChev, I’m over here supporting your brother soldiers for my second trip to the sandbox (contractor), thanks for your efforts as well. You guys rock!

In1974 when I was 10 years old, all the kids on the block were Giants or Cowboys fans. In the early 70’s, with Don Coryell as coach and my favorite player—Terry Metcalf—I picked the Cards. They were on TV here in NY twice against the Giants. They usually got a Monday night or two and even Thanksgiving against the Cowboys.
Throughout the years, I’ve been tortured by my friends over how bad they’ve been—but I never changed my allegance. I start every year optimistic that this is going to be the year.
Finding RotB in the last couple of years has been great. Being able to share the good times with other Cardinal fans (impossible to find in NY) is priceless.
As far as Cuckoo for Cocopuffs…. my daughter is Nicole (Coli—or Coco—never Nicki) just seemed to be the right choice.

My surname is Cianci and I’m a huge fan of Breaston, even though he’s not returning kicks anymore.

My story is not as interesting as the ones posted before but here it goes.

I’m brazillian, born and raised in Rio. During 2006 my soccer team (Vasco da Gama) wasn’t doing very well, so I decided to look for another sport to watch. Entered wikipedia, saw the emblems of the teams and decided to choose the Red Bird. After choosing, I discovered that it was from Arizona, the same State that hosts my favorite basketball team, the Suns. After the first game, I knew that I had found one of my greatests passions. Even though I read ROTB thrice a day, I never had an account because of my little knowledge (Brazil REALLY is a soccer country), so I’m here just to learn from you guys and to share the love for this Squad. GO CARDS!

I know there has to be tons more posters than this, whether regulars or otherwise.

Started using it for various logins years ago, just a nickname Chali 2na uses for himself in a song or two, I thought it was cool sounding and I hadn’t seen anyone else using it. No personal meaning or connection to the Cards.
As for myself, I am an Arizona native, lifelong diehard fan of all the local teams

grew up in canada, wrecked knee at 17 playing football, lost interest because it was too painful to watch, shared apt in college with 3 other guys, 1 of whom won Canadian version of the Heisman … and I only went to see him play twice, I think that’s why he liked me.. he knew I wasn’t suckin up..

worked/lived for years in US, never in a city with a team, but interest in football was re-igniting, moved to Phoenix in 93 and as I stepped off plane, thought, yahoo, this city has a football team and have been a fan (as painful as that was) ever since

found this site about a year ? ago and was impressed at the commitment shown, even if I don’t agree sometimes
please excuse the occaisional rant, I just don’t think I can go thru that first 14 years again..

SCSA is Star Crest Skydiver Award … 2 people hold a hulu hoop and 8 others have to fly through it and create a formation on the other side… so I was 69th to do this and that is always a good number to have

Short for Timothy Bruce, my first and middle names

I live in South Carolina, but grew up in Glendale. I bought a Phoenix Cardinals t shirt at Smitty’s the first day they were available.

born in AZ, favorite team cardinals, Area code 480. AZcardinals480. plusbthats the one I have on NFL network.

My name comes from high school when my fiend decided that snoop dogg and his for shizzle my nizzle and the bizzle and everything had to have the double z was awesome. So with my last name being ferrin i became fizzerin which was shortened to fizzo. A year later one of my buddies made me an action figure out of paper machette that i could hang from my trunk and named him superfizzo. I drove around for an entire year with that thing hanging out of my trunk it was awesome. Then one day i was driving down the road and i hear the car next to me blasting this song called Fizzo got Flow. so i did my research and found it was sang by b2k and i officially had a ring tone and a theme song.
I was always the one in my group of friends growing up that loved the cardinals. my 2 best friends growing up have always been niners fanboys so it’s been good shoving it in their face the past couple of years. It’s kind of funny, the older i get the more i realize how lame 49ers fanboys are and do my best to separate myself from them.