1975 St. Louis Cardinals season
The Cardiac Cards: 11-3, a second straight NFC East title, and a divisional loss in Los Angeles.
The 1975 season was the St. Louis Cardinals' 56th in the National Football League and their 16th in St. Louis. The team won the NFC East with an 11-3 record, the best finish of the Don Coryell era, and reached the playoffs for the second year in a row, scoring 356 points and allowing 276. The club was nicknamed the Cardiac Cards because eight of its games were decided in the final minute; it went 7-1 in those games.
Quick Facts
- Team
- St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)
- Record
- 11–3
- Division place
- 1st NFC East
- Coach
- Don Coryell
- Owner
- Bill Bidwill
- Stadium
- Busch Memorial Stadium
- Playoffs
- Lost Divisional Playoffs (at Rams) 23–35
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Background
The season ended on December 27, 1975, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where the Cardinals lost the divisional playoff 35-23 to the Rams in front of 72,650. The Cardinals never finished first in the NFC East again, and their next division title came 33 years later, in the NFC West, when the 2008 team reached Super Bowl XLIII. Apart from the strike-shortened 1982 season, the franchise did not return to the playoffs until 1998, by which time it had moved to Arizona. Pro Bowl selections included center Tom Banks, guard Conrad Dobler, tackle Dan Dierdorf, quarterback Jim Hart and running backs Terry Metcalf and Jim Otis.
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