He's scum and he like a lot of the other NFL owners get the tax payers to foot the Bill so he can make millions.
Like I said. SCUM!
Oh cry me a freaking river (a burning river like the one in Cleveland BTW). Art Modell is in no way anything like the drunken lying scum that Bob Irsay was. Bob Irsay lied about his intentions, time after time after time about moving the team to another city, and he held the city of Baltimore hostage while lying and not negotiating with them in good faith on the matter of building a new stadium and he also lied to the Baltimore Colt’s fans about the deals he was negotiating and making behind the scenes with Memphis and Phoenix and eventually Indianapolis (even if in his mostly drunken state, he did not remember having done so - his very own son, Jimmy Irsay even admits this is the truth.)
While I understand Cleveland’s animosity toward Modell, it’s not at all factual to claim that Modell did the very same to Cleveland and behaved in the very same way as what Irsay did to Baltimore.
Yea, Baltimore built a new partially tax payer funded football stadium for the Ravens and Cleveland also built a new partially tax payer funded football stadium for the “new” Cleveland Browns. So what’s your point?
Cleveland got a new team but got to retain their name and the history of the Cleveland Browns and got a new stadium. Baltimore got a new team, forgoed their team name and history and got a new stadium and a new team identity. The voters in both cities, BTW, passed by referendum, tax payer funding for the new stadiums.
Simple, Art Modell is Scum. Nothing you say can change it. He is scum!
Art Modell ended up being a cheap whore, something he had to live and die with. RIP