Arizona Cardinals fans have reached the point of "billboard space shopping" frustration
Electronic billboards funded by frustrated Cardinals fans popped up across Phoenix with a blunt message for owner Michael Bidwill: #BIDWILLOUT.
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Fans of any struggling franchise go through various stages of expressing their frustration, and supporters of the 1-4 Arizona Cardinals have hit the big stage.
They have officially reached the point of "going out and buying billboard space" team ownership.
According to AZFamily, several electronic billboards have appeared in the Phoenix area with a very simple and nonsensical message to team owner and president Michael Bidwell.
That message? "Sell the team. Funded by Cardinals fans. #BIDWILLOUT."
You know things are going bad when fans start throwing money at billboards.
The billboard campaign is reportedly the work of a friend named Nathan Krupp, known on social media as Mr. AZ Sports.
It's been another tough stretch for the team, which has dropped four in a row after winning the season opener. However, Krupp says what really made him price the billboard space was last weekend's game at State Farm Stadium, where he says more fans were rooting for the Lions than the Cardinals.
Maybe Lions fans just travel well, but it didn't sit well with Kropp or many other Cardinals fans.
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"And then I went on the X and people went absolutely nuts," Krupp explained. "Like, I've never seen a fan base; I've seen a fan base upset."
So, he started making calls and before you know it - voila! - There were so many disgruntled fans that they erected not one, but two electronic billboards in the Phoenix area.
Krupp said the hardest thing about being a Cardinals fan is how a team that hasn't won a postseason game in more than a decade is spinning its wheels.
"They want something (to change)," he said of the team's fans. "Like, it's hard to be a Cardinals fan right now."
So will these billboards make that change?
Probably not, but it will definitely keep the organization — which, presumably, has no comment on the billboards — in the loop.
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