02-01-2017, 06:22 PM
(01-31-2017, 06:52 PM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: Here's the problem with that. One of the reasons it worked out for Cleveland was that they were able to get the team history to go along with the name and unis. But while Modell was willing to relinquish that in order to avoid fighting legal challenges to his move, it was in fact his to give up. Other team owners are under no obligation to do so. It would create too much confusion to have to divide up histories like that. In the case of your Baltimore example, people would have to constantly clarify which era they were talking about as it related to "Colts" team history, and then you'd have the problem that the "modern" Colts era would be part and parcel with early Browns history ... it'd be a real mess.
I don't see that as a very big problem. Whenever you talk about a team's history, you always attach a year to it anyway...the 2015 Bengals, the 1957 colts, etc.
