Phoenix Tickets Finder

This Viking dude has pretty hair. I wonder if he use to be a woman, because he (or she) will be crying soon when the Arizona Cardinals come for him. The game will be here at home at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings compete in the National Football Conference of the National Football League (NFL). They have been a member of the North Division since the NFL realigned in 2002. Prior to the realignment, they had been a member of the Central Division, also known as the Black & Blue Division. The Vikings have won one NFL championship (Pre-1970 AFL-NFL Merger) losing 23-7 to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl IV and were the first team to both play in and lose four Super Bowls.

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The Seahawks from the north and the Cardinals from the south are battling it out on the football field. Come to Phoenix at the University of Phoenix Stadium for the game. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team, along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, joined the NFL in 1976 as expansion teams. Seattle is the only team to have played in both the AFC (American Football Conference) and NFC Championship Games. The Seahawks have one Super Bowl appearance, Super Bowl XL

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I don’t know how the Giants will be this year, but the Cardinals will put on a good show. Go and get tickets for the game here in Phoenix at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Here is some info from wikipedia:

To distinguish itself from the professional baseball team of the same name, the football team was referred to as the New York Football Giants. Although the baseball team moved to San Francisco in 1957, the football team continues to use “New York Football Giants” as its legal corporate name. The team has also gained several nicknames, including “Big Blue,” the “G-Men,” the “Big Blue Wrecking Crew,” “and the “Jints,” a name seen frequently in the New York Post, originating from the baseball team when they were based in New York.

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The Bills are coming from the cold north to the nice south for a game. The Cardinals are playing at the usual University of Phoenix Stadium. Come and support your home team. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo, New York metropolitan area, playing seven of their home games in the suburb of Orchard Park, and, beginning in 2008, an eighth home game in Toronto. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Bills began competitive play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger.

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It is time to get your football on at the University of Phoenix Stadium. The Cardinals are playing the Dolphins. Come out for the fun. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami, Florida Metropolitan Area. They play home games at Dolphin Stadium, in the suburb of Miami Gardens. They are headquartered at the Miami Dolphins Training Facility in Davie, Florida. The Dolphins belong to the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Dolphins were founded by Joseph Robbie, began play in the American Football League as an expansion team in 1966, and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL Merger. The Dolphins are the oldest major-league professional sports franchise in the state of Florida.

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Dallas Cowboys are coming to Phoenix for a game soon. Come out to the University of Phoenix Stadium for the game. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). They are based in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas. The team currently plays their home games at Texas Stadium in Irving, but they are scheduled to move to a new stadium in nearby Arlington in 2009.[1] The Cowboys joined the NFL as a 1960 expansion team. The team’s national following might best be represented by its NFL record of consecutive games in front of sold out stadiums. The Cowboys’ streak of 160 sold-out regular and post-season games began in 1990, and included 79 straight sellouts at their home, Texas Stadium, and 81 straight sell-outs on the road.

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Ahhhh Snap! The Super Bowl is come to Phoenix. This of off the hizzle for shizzle. Get your tickets here while you can. The game is at the University of Phoenix (Cardinals) Stadium. Here is some info from wikipedia:

Super Bowl XLII will be the 42nd annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) between the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC) champions. The game is scheduled to be played following the 2007 regular season on February 3, 2008 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. This will be the second time that the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area will host a Super Bowl game; Super Bowl XXX in January 1996 was played in Tempe’s Sun Devil Stadium.

The league contemplated the idea of holding Super Bowl XLII in either New York City or Washington, D.C. as a symbol of the recovery from the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, New York City was not even considered as a finalist for the following two reasons:

1. The proposed renovations to Giants Stadium were still being disputed among its stadium representatives.
2. At the time, New York City and the New York Jets still had not finalized a plan to build the new West Side Stadium (Ultimately, the deal fell through).

When NFL owners awarded Super Bowl XLII to Glendale during their October 30, 2003 meeting in Chicago, Illinois, they rejected Washington because they preferred a warmer and drier climate.

During a February 6, 2007 ceremony with Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, the NFL and the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee unveiled the slogan “Who Wants It More?” along with its mascot “Spike the Super Ball” (an anthropomorphized football with sunglasses and sneakers) and a large “Super Bowl XLII Countdown Clock” at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Super Bowl XLII logo was also unveiled, featuring the shape of the state of Arizona in red. The two horizontal white stripes in the middle represent the vertical lines on the University of Phoenix Stadium. The turquoise Roman Numerals represent the Native American culture of Arizona. The red star represents the AFC and the blue star represents the NFC.

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The LA Rams… Oopps, the St. Louis Rams are coming to Phoenix to play the Cardinals. Come to the University of Phoenix Stadium for the game. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team has won three NFL Championships including one Super Bowl.

The Rams began playing in 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the 1936-37 American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, this new NFL franchise technically became a separate entity since only four of the players (William “Bud” Cooper, Harry “The Horse” Mattos, Stan Pincura, Mike Sebastian) and none of the team’s personnel joined the new NFL team.[1]

The team then became known as the Los Angeles Rams after the club moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946. Following the 1979 season, the Rams moved south to the suburbs in nearby Orange County, playing their home games at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim for fifteen seasons (1980-94), keeping the Los Angeles name. The club moved east to St. Louis prior to the 1995 season.

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The Cardinals may be a smaller bird then a Falcons, but this is football and not real birds now is it. Come to the University of Phoenix Stadium for the game. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to Rankin M. Smith Sr. The Atlanta Falcons would draft LB Tommy Nobis from the University of Texas with the first pick of the 1966 NFL Draft, making him the first ever Falcon.

The Falcons had its first season in 1966, and had its first game (preseason) on August 1, 1966 where it was handed a defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles. Losing its first nine games that season, its first victory was on the road against the New York Giants. It would finish the 1960s with only 12 wins. The Falcons would have its first Monday Night Football game in Atlanta during the 1970 season, and although it had a losing record in 1970, the 1971 season was its first winning record.

In the 1978 season, the Falcons entered its first playoff series, and won the Wild Card Playoffs against the Eagles only to lose to the Dallas Cowboys in the Divisional Playoffs. In 1980, it finished 12-4 only to lose again to the Cowboys in the Divisional Playoffs. After the 1981 season, the Atlanta Falcons would not see another playoff series until 1991, when it lost to the Washington Redskins in the Divisional Playoffs.

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The Cleveland Browns turds are come to play the awesome Cardinals. Come to the University of Phoenix Stadium for the game. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They play in the AFC North division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Browns began play in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and joined the NFL in 1950 after the AAFC folded. The team won all four AAFC titles and had one undefeated season (1948 - 15-0), as well as four NFL Championships.

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Once again the Cardinals rule and the 49ers suck. Go Cardinals! The game is at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team. The team plays its home games in San Francisco, California, while the club’s headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

The 49ers began play in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and joined the NFL in 1950 after the AAFC merged into the older league. The team currently shares the record for most Super Bowl victories (five) with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys, and is the only team with two or more appearances in the Super Bowl to remain undefeated in the championship game. The 49ers teams of the 1980s and early 1990s are considered to be among the greatest teams in NFL history. Many of the NFL’s greatest players (including Joe Montana, Steve Young, Ronnie Lott, and Jerry Rice) played for the 49ers during this period. Additionally, some of the most memorable plays (including “The Catch”) and games (such as Super Bowl XXIII) were played by this team.

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The Lions suck and the Cardinals rule. Go Cardinals. The Game is at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began play in 1929 as an independent professional team [1], one of many such teams in the Ohio and Scioto River valleys. For the 1930 season, the Spartans formally joined the National Football League (NFL) as the other area independents folded because of the Great Depression. Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL’s smallest city. The team was purchased and moved to Detroit for the 1934 season.

The Lions have won four pre-Super Bowl NFL Championships, the last in 1957, but have yet to qualify for the modern day Super Bowl.

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USA soccer has a big game vs. Mexico coming up in February at University of Phoenix Stadium (formerly Cardinals Stadium) in Glendale. While USA soccer has been improving in recent decades the fans of Mexico just might end up out numbering the fans wearing red white and blue. If you can’t find the tickets you want to this game at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:
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A week before the BCS National Championship game is played here in Phoenix (well Glendale actually) the annual Fiesta Bowl will be played. The game is slated to feature the Big 12 champ (unless Texas or whoever can sneak into the championship game and an at-large team (I guess.) Any way you look at it the game will be a good one with two heavyweight college programs clashing on a massive stage.

Tickets won’t be cheap but they will seem cheap compared to the prices the championship game will cost. Here is how where you should look to find tickets to this game.

A. Check these ticket brokers below. These advertisers are aggressive enough to buy this spot so they are worth checking out I think:

B. Come back here and check the following three places:

We Have Seats currently has tickets from $175-875
Stubhub will hook you up between $190 and $1000+
TicketsNow has seats from $185 to $1000+

May the Tostitos Force be with you. Here is some Fiesta Bowl info from the wiki:

The Fiesta Bowl, now sponsored by Tostitos tortilla chips (a Frito-Lay product), is a United States college football game played annually since 1971. Originally, the game was hosted in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium where it remained until 2006. Previous bowl game sponsors included Sunkist and IBM’s OS/2 system.

In 1999 the Fiesta Bowl became part of the Bowl Championship Series, and every four years (most recently in 2003) is the designee for the national championship game. In January 2007, the game will be played at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, along with the new stand-alone BCS National Championship Game. In the BCS alignment the bowl will host the Big 12 Conference champion unless they are involved in the national championship game.

Recent results

January 2, 2000 Nebraska 31 Tennessee 21
January 1, 2001 Oregon State 41 Notre Dame 9
January 1, 2002 Oregon 38 Colorado 16
January 3, 2003* Ohio State 31 Miami 24 (2 OT)
January 2, 2004 Ohio State 35 Kansas State 28
January 1, 2005 Utah 35 Pittsburgh 7
January 2, 2006 Ohio State 34 Notre Dame 20

Look, we all know the BCS is a totally corrupt cartel that is designed to horde all the college football money for six insider conferences and which is dead set against any kind of playoff system that would tell us the actual national champion of Division I football every year… But that doesn’t mean going to the BCS championship game wouldn’t be fun anyway!

Yeah, it’s true that we don’t know who will play against Ohio State in the game yet this year. [Update: Looks like the University of Florida Gators are in and the Michigan Wolverines are out. Sorry Michigan — you may very well be the best team in the country but until they scrap this crapfest called the BCS and implement a playoff we’ll never know] But we do know it will be a sellout and that means that if you want to get in you’ll need to get them from the ticket brokers. Here is how I recommend you go about it.

Step 1 - Check prices at some of these ticket vendors:
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Yeah I know it looks like a blowout on paper, but games aren’t played on paper; they’re played on the field. These NFC West rivals take each on every year and you never know what will happen. And if nothing else, it would give you a chance to see an NFL game in what is being called the best stadium in the NFL — the brand new University of Phoenix Stadium (formerly Cardinals Stadium). Tickets start as low a $33 (at StubHub) so it won’t even necessarily break the bank to go to a game. (Though you know parking is pretty expensive when people are selling parking passes through the brokers too…). Anyway, here are the places I recommend you look online if you are hoping to see a Cardinals home game this season:
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That’s right folks, for a mere $155 million you too could have had a major NFL-ready stadium named after you for the next 20 years. But you’re too late here in Phoenix; The University of Phoenix already snapped up the naming rights to the former Cardinal Stadium.

For those of you not familiar with University of Phoenix there is this from their wiki:

University of Phoenix (UOP) is a for-profit educational institution specializing in adult education, with campuses located throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. UOP was founded in 1976 by Dr. John Sperling. In the early 1970’s, at San Jose State University in California, Sperling and several associates conducted field-based research in adult education. The focus of the research was to explore teaching/learning systems for the delivery of educational programs and services to working adult students who wished to complete or further their education in ways that complemented both their experience and current professional responsibilities. At that time colleges and universities were organized primarily around serving the needs of the 18-22 year old undergraduate student. That is not at all surprising, given that the large majority of those enrolled were residential students of traditional college age, just out of high school. According to Sperling, working adult students were often “invisible” on traditional campuses and treated as second-class citizens.

In other words, it is college for people with real jobs already. Last I checked there are more than 150,000 students enrolled and I’m guessing that number will double or triple in a few years with this kind of exposure. If they can afford the deal then I say good for them.

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This is the year! This is the year the Cards won’t suck! (Or maybe not…)

Ok, now that we have that established the next trick is getting your hands on tickets to see the Arizona Cardinals in their shiny new stadium. Tickets sell out fast but the ticket brokers almost always seem to have seats anyway. I like We Have Seats for the best prices; TicketsNow for solid inventory; and StubHub for unique seats and the ability to buy and sell.

Anyway, feast on these Cardinal trivia points while you hunt for seats (from the wiki):

New stadium, new attitude (2006)

In 2000, Maricopa County voters passed a ballot initiative by a margin of 51% to 49%, providing funding for a new Cardinals stadium (as well as for improvements to Major League Baseball spring training facilities in the greater Phoenix region; and youth recreation). After some legal obstacles, the Cardinals began construction of their new facility in April 2003, in Glendale, one of the northwest suburbs of Phoenix. Cardinals Stadium features a retractable roof and a slide-out grass surface, which is good for the hot desert weather; the new stadium has a state-of-the-art air conditioning system and high-back seats.

Although no one in the organization admits it publicly, Sun Devil Stadium has widely been blamed for the Cardinals’ woes in their 18-year stay in Arizona. The Cardinals had no control of parking revenue or other streams of income available to most teams.

The 63,500-seat stadium (expandable to 72,800) opened on August 12, 2006 when the Cardinals defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-13, in a preseason game. The first regular season game is set for September 10 against the San Francisco 49ers, the first time the Cardinals will play on the opening weekend of the NFL season at home since moving to Arizona in 1988. In 2008, the stadium will host Super Bowl XLII.

It does appear that the future may turn brighter for the team. On Sunday, March 12, 2006, the Cardinals acquired former Colts RB Edgerrin James through free agency, by signing him to a four-year, $30 million contract.

Additionally, on Saturday, April 30, 2006, the Cardinals drafted the 2004 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Matt Leinart with the 10th pick of the NFL Draft. Leinart played for the University of Southern California and won 1 1/2 national championships with the team in 2004.

Leinart missed the first two weeks of the 2006 Cardinals training camp (and the opening game of the preseason) due to prolonged contract negotiations, but on August 15, the Arizona Republic, KTAR radio and ESPN reported that Leinart agreed to a six-year contract that could earn him a maximum of $51 million, according to his agent, Tom Condon. The contract reportedly contains $14 million in guaranteed money, and likely involves “escalator” clauses that could increase Leinart’s salary in the later years of the deal should he meet certain playing-time incentives.

Also in the 2006 draft, the Cardinals would select another USC alum, Guard Taitusi “Deuce” Latui in the 3rd round, followed by Georgia TE Leonard Pope, Michigan DT Gabriel Watson, Louisville LB Brandon Johnson, Virginia Tech DT Jonathan Lewis, and Brigham Young WR Todd Watkins. This as well as the dynamic duo that is Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald at WR could make the Cardinals a serious threat in the NFC West.

Let’s hope that the new players, new stadium, and new season make for a big season!

This is the year! This is the year the Cards won’t suck! (Or maybe not…)

Ok, now that we have that established the next trick is getting your hands on tickets to see the Arizona Cardinals in their shiny new stadium. Tickets sell out fast but the ticket brokers almost always seem to have seats anyway. I like these guys for the best prices; these guys for best inventory; and these guys for unique seats and the ability to buy and sell.

Anyway, feast on these Cardinal trivia points while you hunt for seats (from the wiki):

The Cardinals are the oldest existing professional American football club in the United States. The team was formed in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago, Illinois. The club was then called the Racine Normals since they were originally located on Racine Avenue (not Racine, Wisconsin, as mistaken by many) but moved to Chicago’s Normal Field. They then changed their name to the Racine Cardinals after they started wearing cardinal-red uniforms.

After becoming a charter member of the NFL in 1920, the club was renamed the Chicago Cardinals. The Cardinals moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1960, becoming the St. Louis Cardinals, before relocating to the Phoenix area in 1988. The team was known as the Phoenix Cardinals before it started using “Arizona” in its name in 1994.

Despite moving to St. Louis and then to Arizona, the Cardinals had always remained in either an Eastern conference or division. When the league was divided into Eastern and Western conferences prior to the 1953 season, the Cardinals were placed in the East while the Chicago Bears were placed in the West. After the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger, the team was placed in the NFC East. The Cardinals were finally moved to the NFC West as part of the 2002 realignment.

The Cardinals have historically been known as a chronic loser. They were NFL Champions in 1925 and 1947. However, the team has not won a league title since then, and thus currently holds the NFL record for the longest championship drought. The team has also won only two division titles (1974 and 1975) since their 1947 NFL championship. Despite being the oldest existing professional football franchise in the United States, the Cardinals have an all-time postseason record of 2-5 (not counting the 1964 Bert Bell Benefit Bowl).

The oldest club in the NFL?? Who knew? (Yeah we already knew about the chronic loser rep… that changes this year though, baby!)