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Originally Posted by Pez
I think the Baltimore hate for the Colts is pretty fsking disrespectful to the Ravens and the Browns. I dont understand where this entitlement comes from. You treat a team like shit, try to steal it, then bitch when they leave. So you steal the Browns, and then bitch when Indy comes to town.
East coasters.
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The common act is to relocate, but keep the team history. That's what the Colts, Rams, Raiders, etc. did.
Then there's the Titans who did the common act... but then Bud Adams killed the Oilers two years later.
Then there's Browns where Art Modell was going to do the Titans route (before the Titans), but there was a whole big fucking thing with the league and the city. So he just left them and was allowed to essentially create an expansion team Ravens.
He didn't "give the Browns back" because he never took them, they were in a trust. Then a new ownership comes in and revives them or however that worked, and the city got to keep all the history and likeness.
Now we're at an odd number, so Houston gets a new team, but the Oilers didn't get the Browns treatment. So they had to invent a new franchise and chose the stupidest fucking name for a team in the league.
I think I just Colts-and-Orioles'd all over this thread.