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Trailing 17-0 at halftime to the Green Bay Packers, the Chicago Cardinals receive the second half kickoff in front of 30,681 at Comiskey Park. The very inept Cardinals – winners of just one game the three previous seasons – would fall to the Packers, 19-7.
The Cardinals called this historic ballpark home – for the most part – from 1922 through 1958, a year before their departure for St Louis in 1959. In 1926, they were also home to the Chicago Bulls of the newly formed AFL (American League Football) but folded along with the league at the end of the year.
In 1944, Comiskey Park was also home to the Card-Pitt, a team formed from the combined rosters of the Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers, an arrangement made necessary from the lack of quality players now serving in the military in WWII. Card-Pitt finished the 1944 season with a miserable 0-10 record. After the war ended in 1945 the merger ended with both teams returning back to normal operations.
