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Arizona Cardinals owner Bill Bidwell has died
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:19 pm
ESPN
gotta love this paragraph though
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Longtime Arizona Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill died Wednesday while surrounded by his family and loved ones, the team announced. He was 88.
Bill Bidwill's father, Charles, bought the Chicago Cardinals in 1932 and Bill was associated with the team for eight decades. He started as a ball boy as a child and went to work for the team full time in 1960 -- the Cardinals' first season in St. Louis -- after a stint in the Navy. He became owner in 1972; the team moved to Arizona in 1988.
Bidwill gave up day-to-day operations to Michael in 2007, when Michael became the team president.
Under Bidwill's ownership, the Cardinals toiled in mediocrity. They had five winning seasons from 1972 until Ken Whisenhunt was hired as head coach in 2007, Michael's first year in charge. The Cardinals went to their first and only Super Bowl the next season.
gotta love this paragraph though
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Despite a lack of success on the field, Bidwill was ahead of the curve with diversity in the NFL. He hired the first black female executive in league history, Adele Harris; the NFL's first black contract negotiator, Bob Wallace; and the league's first black head coach-general manager tandem, Dennis Green and Rod Graves.
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Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:20 pm to rt3
damn. snag that cards ML while you can
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:20 pm to Winston Cup
Muh diversity is muh strength
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:20 pm to rt3
Awful owner, but rip
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:20 pm to rt3
in the famous words of Ron Burgundy...
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:30 pm to rt3
Damn
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:37 pm to rt3
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owner
I thought we weren't using that type of bigoted terminology anymore
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:38 pm to Captain Crackysack
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I thought we weren't using that type of bigoted terminology anymore
only in the NBA
Posted on 10/2/19 at 2:38 pm to rt3
Didn’t even get to see a Kliff win
Posted on 10/2/19 at 3:02 pm to rt3
He tried to stay in St.Louis and build a new stadium near the old Vess Soda factory(his $ for stadium), and only asked for some land that was sitting vacant, but the Mayor at the time was a super libtard, and told him he won't give him the land, and would sell it at a huge markup to him, and if he didn't like it, move. And so Bidwell moved, and people literally wanted to kill the Mayor later, when all of the facts came out.
His son is the only reason they improved and became a SB contender, the old man was a terrible judge of talent, especially in front office. Bill hired old Cardinals who didn't have a lick of NFL sense. Stories i heard from some former players who still live here are amazing at how inept he was at hiring management peeps and the decisions they would make.
His son is the only reason they improved and became a SB contender, the old man was a terrible judge of talent, especially in front office. Bill hired old Cardinals who didn't have a lick of NFL sense. Stories i heard from some former players who still live here are amazing at how inept he was at hiring management peeps and the decisions they would make.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 3:06 pm to rt3
The Bidwell's have owned that franchise for a long, long time. Took them out of Chicago (actually Papa Bear ran them out).
Posted on 10/2/19 at 3:20 pm to Overbrook
The Bidwells make the Ford family look like competent NFL owners.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 3:21 pm to rt3
Terrible owner, but unlike the Beverly Hillbilly, he wasn’t soulless.
In hindsight, the STL city and county screwed up big time.
In hindsight, the STL city and county screwed up big time.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 3:22 pm to rt3
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Despite a lack of success on the field
quote:It's almost like these two things could potentially have some type of correlation.
Bidwill was ahead of the curve with diversity in the NFL. He hired the first black female executive in league history, Adele Harris; the NFL's first black contract negotiator, Bob Wallace; and the league's first black head coach-general manager tandem, Dennis Green and Rod Graves.
This post was edited on 10/2/19 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 10/2/19 at 3:23 pm to SeeeeK
Vince Schoemel. Probably the worst mayor in our history and that’s saying a bunch.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 3:26 pm to SeeeeK
George Boone’s drafts would make anyone contemplate suicide.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 3:36 pm to rt3
Good job, Cardinals. Your abysmal play the last 3 years has killed your owner.
Well done.
Well done.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 8:29 pm to rt3
Michael wasn’t anywhere near as awful of an owner his father was. I was really hoping they would have hung on in that Super Bowl against the Steelers.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 8:53 pm to SeeeeK
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the Mayor at the time was a super libtard, and told him he won't give him the land, and would sell it at a huge markup to him, an
It’s bad enough that you bring politics into this forum but that you get the story wrong.
Posted on 10/2/19 at 8:59 pm to CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
I was only rooting for Warner to win. Guy easily could've been 3-0 if the last two defenses didn't go into a fetal position.
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