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In the book "When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL," the owners of the team are documented. When the team started as the Morgan Athletic Association in 1899 (and then as the Morgan Athletic Club), the team was sponsored by local social organizations, but not "owned" by an individual.

Chris O'Brien incorporated the team as the Racine Cardinal Pleasure Club in 1917 and then the Chicago Cardinals in 1920. By this time he was acknowledged as the owner of the Cardinals (along with several silent investors). O'Brien sold the team to Dr. David Jones in 1929, who kept the team only a few years until selling the club to Charles Bidwill in 1933. The Bidwill family continues to own the Cardinals to this day.

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