
The Cardinals moved from Chicago to St. Louis in 1960. In 1962 Violet Bidwill Wolfner wife of the late Charles Bidwill passed away. Her sons Bill and Charles Jr. took over the team. Within a couple of years Bidwill was threatening to move the team to Atlanta because they had plans to build a new stadium in place while the Cardinals were sharing Sportsman's Park with the baseball Cardinals. The issue was resolved when Busch Stadium opened in downtown St. Louis in 1966. The team had limited success in their years in the Gateway to the West. In the sixties they had stars like Jim Hart, Sonny Randle, and Larry Wilson make them a competitive team that were fun to watch. While they did string together some winning seasons it wouldn't add up to any playoff appearances in that decade. The seventies brought us stars like Roger Wehrli, Mel Gray, Terry Metcalf, Dan Dierdorf, and more. In 1972 Bill Bidwill took over sole ownership of the team, the next year he brought in Don Coryell as head coach. The "Air Coryell" offense helped lead the team to three consecutive double digit win seasons from 1973 to 1975, those teams earned the nickname "The Cardiac Cards", they always kept you on the edge of your seat. The decade brought the first playoff appearance for the franchise since 1948. Unfortunately for the team they wouldn't have playoff success, as they were knocked out by the Vikings in '74 then the Rams in '75. In 1977 the team finished with a .500 record, Bidwill let star running back Terry Metcalf go along with several other stars. In the eyes of many the owner was cheap, which ended up running Don Coryell out of town. Coryell took his prolific offense to San Diego where Dan Fouts executed it with great success. The end of the Coryell era started the Bud Wilkinson era which only lasted for two whole seasons.
The teams suffered through notoriously bad drafts and an owner who would not spend what it took to field a competitive team. From 1978 to 1987 the team only finished with a winning record 3 times. Their only playoff appearance came in the strike shortened year of 1982 when they went 5-4, they went onto lose to the Green Bay Packers. On December 13, 1987 the Cardinals played their last home game in St. Louis, it was a 27-24 win over the New York Giants. The 29,623 in attendance witnessed the end of an era in St. Louis.
In Arizona the team went through many more years of mismanagement under Bidwill. The fans in Arizona would get their first taste at the playoffs in 1999 when Jake "The Snake" Plummer led the team to a 9-7 record.. The Cardinals lost in the Wild Card round to the Vikings and it would be awhile until they had another postseason opportunity. In 2005, Kurt Warner inked a deal that brought him to Arizona, it wouldn't take Warner long to take Matt Leinhart's job. Warner teamed up with Larry Fitzgerald turned into a lethal combination that led them all the way to the Super Bowl. Even though they lost it looked like a franchise that had been down for so long was finally going to be a competitive team. It wouldn't last. Warner retired following the 2009 season, the team has yet to find a quarterback that can lead the team back to the playoffs.

While I was looking for some video involving the move I ran across this, its pretty funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JEf3Fjk7-U
An article from the Chicago Tribune following the announcement:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-01-16/sports/8803220953_1_william-bidwill-move-billy-bidwill
An article from CBS Sports that will give you a look at how despicable of an owner Bill Bidwill was:
http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/11306770
https://www.facebook.com/OnThisDayInSports
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