GLENDALE not PHOENIX

[Arizona_Sting]

The stadium is in Glendale. Not Phoenix. Crazy how many people get it mixed up.

Glendale is kind of a nobody town that has shot up out of nowhere due to UoP Stadium being built and the Yotes arena. Terrible location for both honestly, but Cards still sellout every game. I think our Governor is from Glendale so she's been pushing the agenda of that city for years now. Kinda annoying.

Downtown PHX/Scottsdale is much nicer. Just thought I'd drop this off for anyone that cares. ha.

 

[octagondd]

Yeah and last year it was in East Rutherford, not New York... whatever.

 

[Arizona_Sting]

Yeah and last year it was in East Rutherford, not New York... whatever.

EXACTLY.

Haha I know hardly anyone cares, just thought I'd share for anyone that didn't know the difference.

 

[octagondd]

EXACTLY.

Haha I know hardly anyone cares, just thought I'd share for anyone that didn't know the difference.

It's at the University of Phoenix right?

 

[Arizona_Sting]

It's at the University of Phoenix right?

Yeah, that's probably the reason everyone gets so confused. Their sponsor is of University of Phoenix... for a stadium not located in Phoenix.

Speaking of that, did you see the CFB recruit today that listed ITT Tech and UofPhoenix as his finalists.

 

[Macho Grande]

Glendale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler...it's all fucking Phoenix as far as most people are concerned.

 

[williewilliejuan]

Is it primarily populated by Armenians?

 

[Arizona_Sting]

Glendale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler...it's all fucking Phoenix as far as most people are concerned.

Nah brah. Not at all.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

We feel your pain. So many people in Flyoverlandvillebergtownville think that East Rutherford isn't a part of New York City

 

[Wedgie]

Having lived in NJ for 12 years, in Montville, then Princeton, I can assure you, East Rutherford is NOT part of NYC.

 

[Anointed One]

Glenix or Pheondale?

 

[Arizona_Sting]

Glenix or Pheondale?

Glenix sounds like some advanced technology you'd blow snot into.

 

[The Derski]

its a giant metropolis. Call it phoenix or Glendale. It's the same thing.

 

[4down20]

I live in Mesa and I tell people Phoenix because they actually know what Phoenix is.

 

[broncosmitty]

I know Arizona is on the other side of Hoover Dam from Nevada.

Other than that, I don't care.

Would kinda like to know why Arizona Wildcat fans say "BearDown". Makes no damn sense.

 

[BoBlake]

Nah brah. Not at all.

I lived in Phoenix (well, Peoria) for 8 years, and I pretty much considered all of those areas Phoenix.

 

[broncosmitty]

Peoria is in Illinois dude.

You were waaaaay off.

 

[Arizona_Sting]

I know Arizona is on the other side of Hoover Dam from Nevada.

Other than that, I don't care.

Would kinda like to know why Arizona Wildcat fans say "BearDown". Makes no damn sense.

It's actually a pretty cool story. If you're interested here ya go:

In the fall of 1926, John Byrd “Button” Salmon was newly installed student body president at the UA, a promising student and member of note of several of the school’s honor societies. He also was a varsity quarterback, a baseball catcher and generally acclaimed popular campus figure. He embodied all-around.

In early October after the Wildcat varsity defeated the freshman squad in an annual match at the time, Salmon and several friends were returning from a visit to Phoenix, and an automobile crash north of Tucson near Florence left the young athlete critically injured.

Salmon, then 22, lost his battle and died the morning of Oct. 18. A memorial service was held on campus that week, drawing a reported thousand mourners, and a line of cars stretched miles to his burial plot.

The coach at the time, J.F. “Pop” McKale, had visited Salmon in the hospital regularly before his death, and later told the squad the young athlete’s last message to his teammates was, “Tell them... tell the team to bear down.”

It’s unclear whether McKale invoked the phrase to the team before one of several games that year, a contest in Las Cruces against New Mexico A&M (NMSU) that same week, or two weeks later before a game against New Mexico in Tucson. UA won both.

But when word spread, the UA student body drew to the phrase swiftly, and among other uses painted the slogan on the roof of the university gymnasium shortly thereafter, known since as Bear Down Gym. An airplane view of that huge-lettered phrase caused eventual long-time band director Jack K. Lee to write the song, “Bear Down, Arizona” during his application for the UA band job. The song, and Douglas Holsclaw’s “Fight, Wildcats, Fight,” are played throughout University of Arizona sporting events, and from the campus belltower daily.

Link: http://www.arizonawildcats.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=208236191

 

[Uhsplit]

The Glendale Cardinals.

Eh?

 

[Arizona_Sting]

If TLDR applies, I understand. But it really is a cool story.