History
Two Chicago promoters, Joe Plunkett and Ambrose McGurk, organized the Milwaukee Badgers and bought an NFL franchise for the team in 1922. Although the Badgers had several stars, they had only one winning season in five years, and attendance was generally poor.
Near the end of the 1925 season, after the team had disbanded, Plunkett and McGurk put together a makeshift group to play the Chicago Cardinals, who were looking for easy games to pad their record. After Chicago won, 59-0, and investigation revealed that four Chicago high school players had been on the hastily-assembled Badger team. NFL President Joe Carr fined the team $500 and pulled the franchise.
Johnny Bryan then took over ownership and the Badgers were readmitted to the league in 1926. However, they went only 2-7 and attendance was even worse than it had been. Bryan then pulled out of the NFL, renamed his team the Eagles, and began playing an independent schedule. In 1929, he applied for another NFL franchise, but never came up with the money.