Tags: National Football League Season.
The 1978 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team’s 59th year with the National Football League and the 19th season in St. Louis. The controversial recruitment of 62-year-old former Oklahoma Sooners coach Bud Wilkinson was a failure as the team already affected by becoming the first opponent team to lose visiting the expansion Buccaneers failed to maintain the standard of the previous four seasons.