Bill Bidwell RIP

[BossChief]

Cardinals owner

[siberian khatru]

Reviled in St. Louis

[MTG#10]

Reviled in St. Louis

That makes him a great guy in my book.

RIP

[BossChief]

I wonder if he was what was holding up a trade for PP

[Rasputin]

Yet Robert Kraft & Jerry Jones live.

[Naptown Chief]

RIP

[Naptown Chief]

Yet Robert Kraft & Jerry Jones live.

The football Gods are (very) cruel indeed :(

[scho63]

They are having a parade out there this afternoon

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I thought this was Bill Barnwell at first.

[ModSocks]

RIP

[big nasty kcnut]

Bidwell dead and when Kroenke die St Louis will have the biggest party ever!

[Rain Man]

Reviled in St. Louis

I lived in St. Louis in the 1980s and yeah, he was not a popular football owner. He had a terrible reputation for being cheap and for not having an interest in fielding a strong team. But somehow the Cardinals eventually managed to lose that reputation, which I find intriguing. It's hard to change perceptions, and he seemed to have accomplished it.

[JimNasium]

I lived in St. Louis in the 1980s and yeah, he was not a popular football owner. He had a terrible reputation for being cheap and for not having an interest in fielding a strong team. But somehow the Cardinals eventually managed to lose that reputation, which I find intriguing. It's hard to change perceptions, and he seemed to have accomplished it.

Cardiac Cards.

[Deberg_1990]

I lived in St. Louis in the 1980s and yeah, he was not a popular football owner. He had a terrible reputation for being cheap and for not having an interest in fielding a strong team. But somehow the Cardinals eventually managed to lose that reputation, which I find intriguing. It's hard to change perceptions, and he seemed to have accomplished it.

They were bad for 20 years in Arizona. From the late 80s until 2008.

He wasn’t a good owner

[New World Order]

I remember that old article that said he actually charged players the shipping cost to mail their checks.

RIP Bidwell.

[siberian khatru]

Cardiac Cards.

Jim Hart! Terry Metcalf! Mel Gray! Dan Dierdorf!

[carcosa]

THEY WILL TRADE PP NOW!!!

[JimNasium]

Jim Hart! Terry Metcalf! Mel Gray! Dan Dierdorf!

That was a fun group to watch. The Chiefs were so bad during that stretch that I often found myself watching the Cards.

[siberian khatru]

That was a fun group to watch. The Chiefs were so bad during that stretch that I often found myself watching the Cards.

I was a big Cards fan in the 70s and 80s

[alpha_omega]

I was a big Cards fan in the 70s and 80s

They were certainly on local TV quite a bit back then.

RIP

[fan4ever]

Years back in while here in AZ I'd read they were one of the few teams in the black...and often well below the salary caps...also heard that the NFL was rumored to have pressured him to produce a more competitive team...that the rest of the NFL was tired of him sucking off the TV revenue money while hoarding his own.

[Rain Man]

Jim Hart! Terry Metcalf! Mel Gray! Dan Dierdorf!

Roy Green!

They were always a very pale second to the Chiefs, but they were a likeable team.

[PunkinDrublic]

That makes him a great guy in my book.

RIP

This.

[The Red Death]

The one good thing I can say for Bidwell: if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be a Chiefs fan.

[JohnnyHammersticks]

Roy Green!

They were always a very pale second to the Chiefs, but they were a likeable team.

Conrad Dobler was probably only likeable if you were a Cardinals fan.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-top-ten/09000d5d810a58da/Top-Ten-Characters-Conrad-Dobler

[ChiefsCountry]

If St. Louis had just built the dome for him, they would still have a NFL team today.

[Flying High D]

St Louis isn’t known for making the logical decision.

[Frazod]

St Louis isn’t known for making the logical decision.

You mean sticking the taxpayers for the cost of a new stadium for a shitty team that couldn't fill the existing stadium?