Violet Bidwill had been owner of the Cardinals for only a few months when she accompanied the team to training camp in ...
Chicago Bears matriarch Virginia Halas McCaskey, who died in February, was not the first woman to become principal owner of an NFL team. Yet the woman who was lived nearby.
1958: Nathan Leopold, who was convicted with Richard Loeb in the “perfect murder” of Bobby Franks in 1924, was released from ...
and his wife Violet. Bill Bidwill was known to run the organization stingily, as the Cardinals’ employees had one of the ...
Yet the woman who was lived nearby. Violet Bidwill was entrusted with the leadership of the Chicago Cardinals after her husband and team owner Charles Bidwill died unexpectedly in 1947.