Why your team sucks

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(08-15-2015, 11:22 AM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: The city of Cleveland was primed to sue the league over Modell's move, so the league cut a deal to avoid that.  The deal stated that Cleveland would receive a replacement franchise that retained the history of the team while Modell's team relinquished both the name and the history.  It was an arbitrary move, but one within the league's power to make.  What they essentially did was to temporarily suspend the Browns franchise and release all of their personnel, and even the owners, from any connection to 'The Browns'.  Those people were then free to form what was essentially a ready-made expansion franchise, which became the Ravens.  When the Browns franchise was reinstated, they populated it with new personnel, but it was, historically, the old Browns franchise.  

That may not be the way  some of you want to think about it, but it's what the league did, and it's reality.

Modelll moved the entire Browns' franchise and renamed it.

When he bought it, they were the Browns, and he didn't cut every player on the team and start an entirely new franchise.

It's a technicality, but the team and franchise that won those titles no longer exists because it changed to the Ravens.

(08-15-2015, 08:55 PM)Tiger Teeth Wrote: Can you simply not read?  And I'm not claiming victory, Brad, these threads aren't a competition.  Nevermind, I'm just gonna' have to make you the first person I've ever put on ignore.  Bye-bye.

lol.

So this wasn't claiming victory(?):

Quote:He got the picture, that's why he hasn't posted anymore in this thread. 

Please explain that to me, or someone else might have to do it since he put me on ignore to avoid doing it.

(08-15-2015, 09:49 PM)JS-Steelerfan Wrote: And THIS is why I made a second reply directly to Brad's post.  Brad's ability to turn his fellow Bengals fans against himself is always good for a chuckle.  

Explain how, more than just a technicality, the Browns won two titles before they even played a game?

You said yourself that it was just a technicality by Modell to avoid the league being sued.