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Outside the lines: Want to see a $7 Cardinal ticket?
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Want to go to Sunday’s NFC championship game? Well, even if you could get a ticket, it would cost you a fortune.
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But that wasn’t the case back in 1975 when the St. Louis Cardinals, coached by Don Coryell, finished 11-3 to qualify for the postseason. Tickets for their divisional playoff game against the Los Angeles Rams went for $7. Had the Cardinals reached the NFC title game – they lost to the Rams, 35-23 - the price would have jumped to a whopping $10.
Here’s a copy of the tickets, courtesy of reader Steve Nelson, who lived in Galesburg, Ill., at the time. Read them and weep.
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