The last time the Cardinals won a championship was in 1947. Was it the Steelers vs the Cardinals?
Memories of the Cardinals’ Last N.F.L. Championship The burly old two-way player, a center and linebacker who is now 87, is one of the few people alive to know how it feels to be on the Cardinals and play for a championship. N N.F.C. For Vince Banonis, 60 years and another title tilt with the Eagles were reasons enough to break out the old fight song. He and some teammates recorded it back in another time, another place. Over the phone from Southfield, Mich., Banonis sang: Hail Chicago Cardinals, crimson and white, We’ll back you ever, down the field, we’ll fight, fight, fight. We’ll whip the Green Bay Packers, Rams and the Bears, We’ll take Detroit and Pittsburgh, and do it fair and square. Yea, Cardinals! Like his surviving Chicago Cardinals teammates, Banonis has long cheered the Arizona Cardinals from afar. Now there is increasing curiosity, even suspense, six decades in the making. The Cardinals play the Philadelphia Eagles in Sunday’s National Football Conference championship gam
