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On a dark and snowy night in March 1985, the Baltimore Colts franchise was loaded into a bunch of Mayflower moving trucks and headed to Indy.
I'm sure there is quite a bit of amnonsity left in some fans minds.
Not a problem because we've gone through the same thing here!!!!!!

Only difference Baltimore didn't fall off the face of the earth just because there was no professional football there for FOURTEEN(yes 14)years. The fans didn't go in front of Congress to cry about losing a FOOTBALL TEAM, as is what happened here. Baltimore survived without football. In Cleveland everyone cried for the three whole years there wasn't football here.
What happened next will tell you how I feel about football in this town. After the voters in this city approved extending the "sin tax" already in place to build the new stadium, instead of the fans saying no NFL, we're not buying tickets for 3 years. You run the team and provide tickets to charitable organizations(at Art Modell's expense), them even if the team went 0-48, after three years we're buying tickets again(but not PSL's)and then you transfer tem to an new owner.
BUT NO

as soon as it was announced the team was coming back in 1999, the sheeple........excuse me "fans" went crawling back, PSL AND SEASON ticket money in hand, and 7 years later, the NFL still laughs at the city for that.

Just like they did in B-More, I didn't need football back here. I NEVER voted for the tax increase, and it will be a cold day in hell before I EVER pay for the opportunity to buy tickets for an NFL game.

That's it? Irsay bought the team and he's a demon? I don't get it. The way people talk about him it sounds more like he was a gangster.

I NEVER voted for the tax increase, and it will be a cold day in hell before I EVER pay for the opportunity to buy tickets for an NFL game.

Heh, heh.
But you still have to pay the taxes.
Nuts.