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The Arizona Cardinals announced on Wednesday that team owner Bill Bidwill has died. He was 88 years old.
William Vogel Bidwill (July 31, 1931 – October 2, 2019) was an American businessman and the owner of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He had co-owned the team from 1962 for ten seasons with his brother Charles Jr. and had been sole owner from 1972 until his death in 2019.
Michael Bidwill (born December 6, 1964) is an American businessman who is the principal owner, chairman, and president of the Arizona Cardinals (who has scored as the worst team in the NFL according to the NFLPA survey, two years in a row.) of the National Football League (NFL).
Not long after the end of the 1987 NFL season, Bidwill agreed to move to Phoenix on a handshake deal with state and local officials, and the team became the Phoenix Cardinals. [18] The team changed their name to the Arizona Cardinals on March 17, 1994. [7] [19] The Cardinals hired Vince Tobin as head coach prior to the 1996 season. [20]
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The team began as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. The team's second name was the Racine Normals, since it played at Normal Field on Racine Street. In 1901, they were renamed to the Racine Street Cardinals, a name that came from the University of Chicago jerseys that the team used, which were described as "Cardinal red ...
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970).