Kamis, 06 September 2012

Former Ravens Owner Art Modell Passes Away at 87

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Art Modell, the past someone of the metropolis Browns and metropolis Ravens, has passed absent after existence hospitalized on Wednesday, according to a inform from the metropolis Sun. He was 87 eld old. 

After he was condemned to John histrion Hospital in Baltimore, WKYC Channel 3 in metropolis reportable that his information was "worsening" and his alive meat were "failing." His wife, Patricia, passed absent in 2011. They were married for 42 years. 

Modell was digit of the most disputable owners in NFL history. He bought the metropolis Browns primeval in 1961 and was arguably the most important amount in the story of the franchise. 

His most famous—or infamous—moment came in 1995. After 50 eld in Cleveland, Modell declared that he was agitated the concern to Baltimore. After the aggroup ended 5-11, they were shipped to Maryland. 

As presently as the advise was announced, Modell directly became Public Enemy No. 1 in Cleveland. 

The metropolis concern would become to be famous as the Ravens. They would hit lowercase success on the earth their prototypal quaternary seasons, assembling a 24-39-1 record. On the shoulders of digit of the prizewinning defenses in the story of the NFL, the Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV. 

It was the prototypal title for Modell since the Browns won the NFL Championship Game in 1964 and exclusive Super Bowl his aggroup would win. 

Modell oversubscribed the concern in 2003, though he preserved a diminutive eld wager in the aggroup up to the instance of his passing. 

 

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