The Cardinals football season ends after next week’s game in Seattle, but they haven’t stopped trying to make memories in these final weeks.
They succeeded on Sunday, beating the Giants 23-0 at University of Phoenix Stadium. It was the Cardinals' first shutout since 1992, when they were known as the Phoenix Cardinals and beat the Giants in front of 28,452 fans at Sun Devil Stadium.
Defensive coordinator James Bettcher figures he was in junior high back then, and defensive tackle Frostee Rucker was a 9-year-old “probably stealing orange juice out of a cart,” he said, laughing. “Who knows what I was doing?