The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Phoenix. They compete in the National Football League (NFL). More specifically, they are part of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division, along with the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, and Seattle Seahawks.
The Cardinals are the oldest team in the NFL. They originated as a neighborhood team in Chicago in 1898 and joined the American Professional Football League (the forerunner of the NFL) in 1920. They moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1960 and then to Phoenix in 1988.