The 1975 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 56th year with the National Football League and the 16th season in St. Louis. The club scored 356 points while the defense gave up 276 points. The team appeared in the playoffs for the second consecutive year, by winning the NFC East with a record of eleven wins and three losses (the best finish in the Coryell era). They never returned to the playoffs during a full NFL season until 1998, by which time they moved from St. Louis to Arizona.
The team was nicknamed the âÂÂCardiac CardsâÂÂ, because eight of their games were decided in the final minute of play; the Cardinals went 7âÂÂ1 in these games.
After this season, the Cardinals never reached the top of the NFC East again. They would not again have a division title until 33 years later, when they played in Super Bowl XLIII after they had moved to Arizona, as well as to the NFC West.
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