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Art Modell dies at 87
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Posted on 09/06/2012 4:45:59 AM PDT by Perdogg
BALTIMORE -- Former Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell has died. He was 87.
The team said Modell died early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he had been admitted Wednesday. A cause of death was not given.
Modell was among the most important figures in the NFL as owner of the Cleveland Browns, which became the Ravens after he took the team to Baltimore in 1996 in a move that tarnished his reputation as one of the league's most innovative and influential owners
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To: IndyTiger
At least Cleveland got a football team in a relative short time after the Browns left Cleveland.
Baltimore and it's fans had to endure 12 long years without a football team, and being snubbed by the NFL twice by giving a expansion team to another city without giving any consideration to Baltimore.
Remember, it was the Baltimore Colts that put the NFL on the national map, and on the national map when it comes to TV viewing.
I am not saying this as if there is no sympathy for the fans of the old Cleveland Browns, but, look at it in the perspective of what happen to Baltimore and how also the NFL treated Baltimore and it's fans like a piece of dirt.
To: Perdogg
No mo Modell? Wasn’t he a model owner?
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09/11/2012 6:27:58 PM PDT
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Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong!)
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