01-31-2017, 06:52 PM
(01-16-2017, 12:14 PM)Beaker Wrote: I think if a franchise moves, it should be required to leave the team name and colors behind in the city it moved from. The team should have to come up with a new name and colors like the ravens did. The colts name and unis should have been there when they returned. Indy should have had to come up with their own name and colors. The rams should have been the cardinals when they moved to st. luois...and the rams again when they moved back to LA. There are no cardinals in Phoenix. The chargers should have to leave the name and colors in SD and become something else in LA. The raiders should have to leave the name and colors in Oakland, etc.
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.
