Ghosts of Cardinal Stadium

02/04/2023

Mine too.

For Charles Barkley, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan are cut from the same cloth while LeBron James is nowhere near their ilk

02/04/2023

03/28/2021

RIP to Howard Schellenberger, one of the greatest college football coaches of all time. He brought two programs from the brink of extinction to a national championship (University of Miami) and national prominence (University of Louisville) and created a third program from scratch (Florida Atlantic University). While he was old school in learning the game from Paulie Miller (a St. X alumnus) at Flaget High School in Louisville and from the legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant at the University of Kentucky (later his assistant at the University of Alabama), he was forward thinking in adopting the faster-paced pro-style offense with players with spectacular athletic abilities. His pipe and customary sport coat and tie brought a credibility to the sidelines like a CEO. I never saw him wear a headset when he coached.

His pronouncements came true at Miami with winning a national championship in five years. While Louisville is still on a collision course with the national championship, he instilled a sense of hope and optimism that the commuter university with a national championship basketball team could have a football program that thought and dreamed big and could compete with the best teams in the nation, and that many of these young men in the program would compete at the next level on Sunday afternoons.

There is no Miami, Louisville, and Florida Atlantic football without Howard Schellenberger. Imagine if he had stayed at Miami? He would have probably won 5 or 6 national championships. If Louisville remained independent, would he have stayed and continue that collision course? He will be missed.

Howard Schnellenberger, who led Miami to its first national championship and in the process turned a once-floundering football program into a dynasty, died on Saturday, his family announced. He was 87.

01/05/2021

A great retrospective.

Thanks to the quarantine, I finished up a little video project I wanted to do. In March of last year, I was able to explore Old Cardinal Stadium before it wa...

01/01/2021

30 years ago today, the University of Louisville defeated the University of Alabama 34-7 in the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona. While the game was surrounded by controversy due to Arizona failing to adopt a state holiday for the late Dr. Martin Luther King, UofL seized the opportunity to play in their first New Year’s Day bowl (and only the fourth bowl appearance in school history up to that point) and dominated with 25 points in the first quarter, including quarterback Browning Nagle throwing for a then-bowl record 451 yards. It is one of the biggest victories in the football program’s history.

UpFromTheAshes Pigskin SeriesJan 1, 1991.The Louisville Cardinals first-ever foray into the national spotlight of a New Year's Day bowl, facing the mighty Cr...

07/28/2020

30 years ago this month, the Grateful Dead played at Cardinal Stadium. Here is the set list from the concert

Official Site Of The Grateful Dead

05/22/2020

Did you pick up an old seat from the demolished Cardinal Stadium? Last year, some of the old seats appeared at bus stops around town.

The first bus stop using Old Cardinal Stadium seats has been installed in Louisville, and organizers are seeking sponsors to support further efforts

05/13/2020

Cardinal Stadium in the late afternoon.

05/13/2020

30 years ago last month, the first Thunder Over Louisville kicked off the 35th Kentucky Derby Festival. One of Cardinal Stadium's largest non-football crowds watched an amazing spectacle of fireworks after the Redbirds game. The following year, Thunder moved to the Ohio River and the crowds gathered in Downtown Louisville as the show has grown year after year.

05/13/2020

An old 1990's Redbirds promotional TV ad.

A commercial for the Louisville Redbirds Triple A baseball team from the mid 90s. Subscribe to see more great 80s/90s era Louisville, KY area commercials as ...