Professional football (gridiron) oldest existing professional football club is the Arizona Cardinals, a current member of the National Football League. The Cardinals organization, which was originally based on Racine Street in Chicago, has operated near-continuously since 1913, but counts an earlier team that played from 1898 to 1906 as part of its history. The Watertown Red & Black is the oldest semi-professional club, tracing its history to 1896. While the practice of professional and semi-pro teams playing college and amateur teams was common in the 1890s, the Amateur Athletic Union began pressuring and threatening college teams with the loss of amateur status if
Louisville Cardinals football Satterfield was previously the head coach of his alma mater Appalachian State for the last 6 seasons. Louisville has been both independent and affiliated with multiple conferences. Louisville claims nine conference championships. † Co-champions Louisville has been to 22 bowl games; their overall bowl record is 10–11–1. During the BCS era (1998–2013), the Cardinals appeared in two BCS bowl games. Louisville attended a bowl each season from 1998 to 2006, and has an active streak of eight seasons with bowl appearances (2010–2017). † Interim The Louisville Cardinals football team plays its home games at Cardinal Stadium. Prior to that the