Card Pitt
Card-Pitt was an American American football team, which in the 1944 National Football League played. It was created from the merger of the Chicago Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers .
history
In the 1943 season, the Pittsburgh Steelers formed a team together with the Philadelphia Eagles , the Steagles . This team, made up of players not used in World War II , had a 5-4-1 record, while the Chicago Cardinals had no win in the previous season. For the following season, the Eagles decided to play independently again. Since the NFL had eleven teams with the return of the Cleveland Rams and expansion with the addition of the Boston Yanks , and the NFL found it impossible to come up with an appropriate schedule, the commissioner asked the owners of the Cardinals and Steelers if they wanted to merge. On April 22, 1944, the merged team was announced, which the press referred to as Card-Pitt. The team was in poor physical shape, with six of the 45 players suffering from heat stroke during their first training session. For the offense it was decided to choose the T-formation as the standard formation. The Steelers players at the Steagles had already gained some experience with this, while the Cardinals players had rarely used it. The first two preseason games were lost without scoring a point. In the first game of the regular season against the Cleveland Rams you played successfully. After an interception shortly before the end, the Card-Pitts were with a lead of 28:23 on their own one-yard line. Instead of running out of time or allowing a safety and thus ensuring victory, the decision was made to punt at the first down. This went only ten yards, however, and shortly afterwards the Rams scored a touchdown to the 30:28 victory. After the second game of the season, the Card-Pitts quarterback Coley McDonough was drafted into the war. The team did not manage to win a single regular season, only a 17:16 win over the New York Giants in a friendly game during a bye week. On December 4, 1944, one day after the end of the season, the dissolution of the merger was announced.
uniform
The Card-Pitts wore both the gold and black uniform of the Steelers and the red and white uniform of the Cardinals. The only exception was the away game against the Washington Redskins , in which they wore blue uniforms. This was not the alternative uniform popular in the modern NFL, but an attempt to end the losing streak by changing the uniform.