Cardinals will be home team in Mexico City game

The Arizona Cardinals were just announced to be the home team for the Mexico City game at Estadio Azteca, 15 years after they played in the NFL’s first regular-season game outside of the United States. Arizona won that game 31-14 over the San Francisco 49ers with 103,467 fans in attendance.

In last year’s matchup in Mexico City, the Chargers played host to the Kansas City Chiefs in a close contest between AFC West rivals. The Chiefs won that game 24-17.

There is plenty of speculation to believe, based on last year’s match-up of interdivisional rivals, that the opponent for the Cardinals could be the the Rams. Last year’s regular-season finale was a close 31-24 win for the Rams and I think that sets a nice tone for a matchup between the two teams on primetime in foreign territory.

There’s a good chance that the opponent is one of the other divisional opponents, of course, and i think the 49ers have the best chance after a pair of entertaining shoot-outs between the two this past season.