2002 Arizona Cardinals

The 2002 Arizona Cardinals season was the team's 83rd year with the National Football League and the 15th season in Arizona.

Pat Tillman
In May 2002, eight months after the September 11, 2001, attacks and after completing the fifteen remaining games of the 2001 season which followed the attacks (at a salary of $512,000 per year), Pat Tillman turned down a contract offer of $3.6 million over three years from the Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army.