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==Logos and uniforms== [[File:NFCW-Throwback2-Uniform-ARI.PNG|thumb|left|150px|Phoenix Cardinals uniform: 1989–1995]] [[File:NFC-Throwback-Uniform-ARI.PNG|thumb|left|150px|Arizona Cardinals uniform: 1996–2004]] [[File:Arizona Cardinals Uniforms 2010-2016.png|thumb|left|150px|Arizona Cardinals uniform: 2005–2022]] Starting in {{Cardinals NFL season|1947}}, the team had a logo of a [[Northern cardinal|cardinal bird]] ([[pyrrhuloxia]]) perched on the laces of a football. The Cardinals moved to Arizona in {{Cardinals NFL season|1988}}, and the [[flag of Arizona]] was added to the sleeves the following year. In {{Cardinals NFL season|1990}}, the team began wearing red pants with their white jerseys, as new coach [[Joe Bugel]] wanted to emulate his former employer, the [[Washington Redskins]], who at the time wore burgundy pants with their white jerseys (the Redskins later returned to their 1970s gold pants with all their jerseys). In {{nfly|1994}}, the Cardinals participated in the NFL's 75th-anniversary throwback uniform program. The jerseys were similar to those of the 1920s Chicago Cardinals, with an interlocking "CC" logo and three stripes on each sleeve. The uniform numbers were moved to the right chest. The pants were khaki to simulate the color and material used in that era. The Cardinals also stripped the logos from their helmets for two games: at [[1994 Cleveland Browns season|Cleveland]] and home vs. [[1994 Pittsburgh Steelers season|Pittsburgh]]. [[File:Chicago cardinals.png|thumb|150px|Chicago Cardinals logo.]] The Cardinal head on the helmet also appeared on the sleeve of the white jersey from 1982 to 1995. In 1996, the state flag of Arizona was moved higher on the sleeve after the Cardinal head was eliminated as sleeves on football jerseys became shorter, and black was removed as an accent color, instead replaced with a blue to match the predominant color of the state flag. In 2002, the Cardinals began to wear all-red and all-white combinations, and continued to do so through 2004, prior to the team's makeover. In {{nfly|2005}}, the team unveiled its first major changes in a century. The cardinal-head logo was updated to look sleeker and meaner than its predecessor. Numerous fans had derisively called the previous version a "[[parakeet]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Cards Brush Up Bird|url=http://www.azcardinals.com/news/news_details.html?iid=2588|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=AZCardinals.com|date=January 27, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051122212338/http://www.azcardinals.com/news/news_details.html?iid=2588|archive-date=November 22, 2005 |access-date=August 26, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Black again became an accent color after an eight-year absence, while trim lines were added to the outside shoulders, sleeves, and sides of the jerseys and pants. Both the red and white jerseys have the option of red or white pants.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cards Unveiled New Uniforms|url=http://www.azcardinals.com/news/news_details.html?iid=2761|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=AZCardinals.com|date=April 21, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050421165353/http://www.azcardinals.com/news/news_details.html?iid=2761|archive-date=April 21, 2005|access-date=June 9, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hoping to break a six-game losing streak, the Cardinals wore the red pants for the first time on October 29, 2006, in a game at [[Lambeau Field]] against the Green Bay Packers. The Packers won 31–14, and the Cards headed into their bye week with a 1–7 mark. Following the bye week, the Cardinals came out in an all-red combination at home against the Dallas Cowboys and lost, 27–10. Arizona did not wear the red pants for the remainder of the season and won four of their last seven games. However, the following season, in {{Cardinals NFL season|2007}}, the Cardinals again wore their red pants for their final 3 home games. They wore red pants with white jerseys in games on the road at the Cincinnati Bengals and Seattle Seahawks. They paired red pants with red jerseys, the all-red combination, for home games against the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, and St. Louis Rams. The red pants were not worn at all in {{Cardinals NFL season|2008}}, but they were used in home games against Seattle, Minnesota, and St. Louis in {{Cardinals NFL season|2009}}. The red pants were paired with the white road jersey for the first time in three years during a 2010 game at Carolina, but the white jersey/red pants combination was not used again until 2018, when they broke out the combination against the [[Kansas City Chiefs]].<ref name="x683">{{cite web | last=Root | first=Jess | title=Cardinals to bust out uniform combo not used since 2010 | website=Cards Wire|publisher=USA Today | date=2018-11-10 | url=https://cardswire.usatoday.com/2018/11/10/az-arizona-cardinals-uniform-week-10-jerseys/ | access-date=2024-08-19}}</ref> The Cardinals' first home game in Arizona, in 1988, saw them play in red jerseys. Thereafter, for the next 18 years in Arizona, the Cardinals, like a few other NFL teams in warm climates, wore their white jerseys at home during the first half of the season—forcing opponents to suffer in their darker jerseys during Arizona autumns that frequently see temperatures over 100 °F (38 °C). However, this tradition did not continue when the Cardinals moved from Sun Devil Stadium to State Farm Stadium in 2006, as early-season games (and some home games late in the season) were played with the roof closed. With the temperature inside at a comfortable 70 °F (21 °C), the team opted to wear red jerseys at home full-time. The Cardinals wore white jerseys at home for the first time at State Farm Stadium on August 29, 2008, in a preseason game against the [[Denver Broncos]]. The Cardinals wore white at home for the first time in a regular-season game at State Farm Stadium against the [[Houston Texans]] on October 11, {{nfly|2009}}. In October 2009, the NFL recognized [[Breast Cancer Awareness Month]], and players wore pink-accented items, including gloves, wristbands, and shoes. The team thought the pink accents looked better with white uniforms than with red.<ref>{{cite news|last=Somers|first=Kent|title=Is white out for the Big Red?|url=http://archive.azcentral.com/members/Blog/KentSomers/66308|newspaper=[[The Arizona Republic]]|date=October 29, 2009|access-date=June 11, 2016|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506061403/https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/gpt/pubads_impl_2021042801.js|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1970 through 1983, and again in many seasons between 1989 and 2002, the Cardinals would wear white when hosting the [[Dallas Cowboys]] in order to force the Cowboys to don their "jinxed" blue jerseys.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aron |first=Jaime |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-TGCDwAAQBAJ&dq=Dallas+Cowboys+%22jinxed%22+blue+jerseys&pg=PT61 |title=Tales from the Dallas Mavericks Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Mavs Stories Ever Told |date=January 16, 2018 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-68358-148-2|access-date=January 29, 2023 |archive-date=March 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328220706/https://books.google.com/books?id=-TGCDwAAQBAJ&dq=Dallas+Cowboys+%22jinxed%22+blue+jerseys&pg=PT61 |url-status=live }}</ref> They have not done this since moving into State Farm Stadium, however.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Van Buren |first=Aarron |date=July 4, 2022 |title=How the Arizona Cardinals "Jinxed" the Dallas Cowboys' blue uniforms |url=https://raisingzona.com/2022/07/04/arizona-cardinals-dallas-cowboys-jinx/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029183016/https://raisingzona.com/2022/07/04/arizona-cardinals-dallas-cowboys-jinx/ |archive-date=October 29, 2023 |access-date=October 29, 2023 |website=Raising Zona}}</ref> The {{Cardinals NFL season|2010}} season saw the Cardinals debut a new, alternate black jersey.<ref>{{cite news|last=Urban|first=Darren|title=Cards Unveil Third Jerseys|url=https://www.azcardinals.com/news/cards-unveil-third-jerseys-2235287|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=AZCardinals.com|date=April 22, 2010|access-date=June 30, 2019|archive-date=June 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630230053/https://www.azcardinals.com/news/cards-unveil-third-jerseys-2235287|url-status=live}}</ref> In {{Cardinals NFL season|2017}}, the Cardinals debuted an all-black set for the [[NFL Color Rush]] program. While the regular black alternates featured white lettering and are paired with white pants, the Cardinals' Color Rush alternates used red lettering and black pants for the occasion. Starting in 2022, both black uniforms would be paired with an alternate black helmet with black facemasks.<ref>{{cite news|last=Urban|first=Darren|title=Blackout: Cardinals Reveal Alternate Helmets For 2022|url=https://www.azcardinals.com/news/arizona-cardinals-reveal-alternate-black-helmets-for-2022|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=AZCardinals.com|date=July 24, 2022|access-date=July 24, 2022|archive-date=July 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724200132/https://www.azcardinals.com/news/arizona-cardinals-reveal-alternate-black-helmets-for-2022|url-status=live}}</ref> Before the {{Cardinals NFL season|2023}} season, the Cardinals unveiled new uniforms.<ref name="m100">{{cite web | last=Urban | first=Darren | title=New Uniforms For The Arizona Cardinals | website=AZCardinals.com | date=2023-04-21 | url=https://www.azcardinals.com/news/longform/new-uniforms-for-the-arizona-cardinals-2023 | access-date=2024-08-19}}</ref> Most notably, the team opted to wear all-red uniforms at home and all-white uniforms on the road, with all-black uniforms as the alternate. The red uniform featured the state name in front in addition to white numbers with silver trim. The white uniform featured red numbers with black trim, and red and silver stripes along the pants and sleeves. The black alternate uniform design mirrored that of the white uniform, featuring red numbers with silver trim, and red and silver stripes along the pants and sleeves. On both uniforms, the silver sleeve stripe contained the team name. Both the red and white uniforms are worn with white helmets and silver facemasks, while the black uniform is worn with the black helmets from 2022. The new helmets featured silver flakes while the black helmet had red flakes in them.<ref name="UrbanNewAZCardsUnis" /><ref name="NewAZCardsUnisNFL" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Arizona Cardinals Uniforms|url=https://www.azcardinals.com/team/uniforms|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=AZCardinals.com|access-date=April 27, 2023|archive-date=April 27, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427025529/https://www.azcardinals.com/team/uniforms|url-status=live}}</ref>
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