Art Modell - Gone to Hell. Man he screwed the NFL.
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The Dog Pound has a new place to take a dump. Art Modell, who showed LeBron James, Ernest Byner, John Elway and Michael Jordan what it really means to tear out a city’s sports heart and show it to them while it’s still beating, has died at the age of 87. One of the game’s visionary owners, Modell was instrumental in expanding the NFL’s presence in television and convinced Dick Ebersol that Monday night was a great night for football. Then in 1995, after nearly a half-century of Browns football in Cleveland including more than 30 years under his ownership, Modell decided he wasn’t getting spit at enough and moved the Browns from the Mistake by the Lake to the City that Bleeds. In the process, he displaced a successful and popular CFL franchise, rekindled memories of the Baltimore Colts’ flight to Indianapolis, ignored his own history as a Brooklyn Dodger fan, broke repeated promises that he would not move the team and pretty much derailed any chance he had for induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Baltimore Ravens plan a moment of silence before their first game of the season this weekend. The Cleveland Browns plan a 10-minute standing ovation. Interment will be in Baltimore, with the body being relocated to Los Angeles in the offseason.
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Art Modell. Gone to hell? Will he bring the NFL?
(Props to Mark)The Dog Pound has a new place to take a dump. Art Modell, who showed LeBron James, Ernest Byner, John Elway and Michael Jordan what it really means to tear out a city’s sports heart and show it to them while it’s still beating, has died at the age of 87. One of the game’s visionary owners, Modell was instrumental in expanding the NFL’s presence in television and convinced Dick Ebersol that Monday night was a great night for football. Then in 1995, after nearly a half-century of Browns football in Cleveland including more than 30 years under his ownership, Modell decided he wasn’t getting spit at enough and moved the Browns from the Mistake by the Lake to the City that Bleeds. In the process, he displaced a successful and popular CFL franchise, rekindled memories of the Baltimore Colts’ flight to Indianapolis, ignored his own history as a Brooklyn Dodger fan, broke repeated promises that he would not move the team and pretty much derailed any chance he had for induction in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Baltimore Ravens plan a moment of silence before their first game of the season this weekend. The Cleveland Browns plan a 10-minute standing ovation. Interment will be in Baltimore, with the body being relocated to Los Angeles in the offseason.
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