Michael Bidwill’s heart, and business, are in the Phoenix area with the Arizona Cardinals. But the team president still has a soft spot for St. Louis, where the football Cardinals spent 28 seasons under team owner Bill Bidwill, his father, from 1960-87.
The latest example of this came just a few days ago when Bidwill donated $10,000 to the St. Louis Tom Lombardo chapter of the National Football Foundation.
The nonprofit group’s sole purpose is to promote and aid youth football, particularly at the high school level. Its signature event is an annual banquet, in which it awards scholarship money to 11 area scholar-athletes and also honors the top 25 high school players in the area.