We got to No. 40. There are 40 days remaining until the Arizona Cardinals kick off the 2015 regular season against the New Orleans Saints. And No. 40 is the focus of the jersey countdown.
It is one of the numbers the team has retired, and it was retired for Pat Tillman. As with the other retired numbers, the players had tragic deaths.
Tillman was a seventh round pick by the Cards out of Arizona State and played four years for the Cards, starting 39 games. When free agency came around after the 2001 season, rather than signing a new multi-million dollar contract, he decided to go serve in the military.