hollywood3586 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) @ 87, I hope you get some sympathy. Even though most of Ohio hated you. Edited September 6, 2012 by hollywood3586 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Copeland Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 RIP Art ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmh_sprint Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) RIP Art. Thanks for ripping the hearts out of my friends who were Cleveland Browns fans and for ruining one of the greatest rivalries in sports. I know a long list of people waiting to piss on his grave. Edited September 6, 2012 by cmh_sprint 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad324 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I'm torn because I want to celebrate but he was human and didn't do anything terrible like rape or murder so I want to respect the passingHe did kill the Browns as a legitimate football team so hmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max power Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Enjoy Hell Art Modell.Some things just shouldnt be done for money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magley64 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 RIH modellgood riddance to bad rubbish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokey Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Im sure he has fans there!!!! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attentiongetter92 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I must have missed what he did. Curse my young age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpoppa Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 meh...if you extend the timeline long enough everyone dies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleaveTheGreat Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Fuck him. Good riddance 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpoppa Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I must have missed what he did. Curse my young ageHe opened a chain of sporting goods stores somewhere on the east coast. I don't recall the rest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attentiongetter92 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 He opened a chain of sporting goods stores somewhere on the east coast. I don't recall the rest.What's so bad about that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrown57 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Took the entire team (Browns) to Baltimore (Ravens) leaving Cleveland with out a team after promising to never move the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSB67 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Come back Art! We need you to do it again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood3586 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I must have missed what he did. Curse my young ageSeriously? How old are you? This was only like 10 years ago.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrown57 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Seriously? How old are you? This was only like 10 years ago..16 Years 1996 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attentiongetter92 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Seriously? How old are you? This was only like 10 years ago..16 Years 199620 on sunday lol(will I get a fancy happy bday thread?). Thank ya sir, wasn't even in Ohio in 96 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayjie15 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I won't disagree that Art is kind of a terd for what he did but from what I understand the civic leaders in Cleveland at the time ie Mike White didn't take him seriously about moving the team. All he wanted was a new stadium and I would be salt to if I saw the Indians and Cavs get a new venue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InyaAzz Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) I would probably be upset if I was a Brown's fan and he moved the team, but:There is plenty of blame to go around. Modell is the easy scape goat. Try Mike White, the NFL, city officials..etc if you need some direction.Like it or not, the Cleveland Browns exist as a business first and foremost. They don't exist to primarily give people something to cheer for. I know we all love our teams and we think WE own them, but we don't. Was anyone cheering for the Browns going to pay Modell's bills? Apparently not.The man is dead...RIP. He wasn't a child murderer or kitten basher...he moved a team because he was left (seemingly) with no choice, financially. You don't have to love him, but the hate is a little overboard.When Matt Millen dies, please don't dig this post up and throw it in my face because I'll be the first to piss on his grave. Edited September 7, 2012 by InyaAzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad324 Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I would probably be upset if I was a Brown's fan and he moved the team, but:There is plenty of blame to go around. Modell is the easy scape goat. Try Mike White, the NFL, city officials..etc if you need some direction.Like it or not, the Cleveland Browns exist as a business first and foremost. They don't exist to primarily to give people something to cheer for. I know we all love our teams and we think WE own them, but we don't. Was anyone cheering for the Browns going to pay Modell's bills? Apparently not.The man is dead...RIP. He wasn't a child murderer or kitten basher...he moved a team because he was left (seemingly) with no choice, financially. You don't have to love him, but the hate is a little overboard.When Matt Millen dies, please don't dig this post up and throw it in my face because I'll be the first to piss on his grave. :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVTPilot Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 I would probably be upset if I was a Brown's fan and he moved the team, but:There is plenty of blame to go around. Modell is the easy scape goat. Try Mike White, the NFL, city officials..etc if you need some direction.Like it or not, the Cleveland Browns exist as a business first and foremost. They don't exist to primarily to give people something to cheer for. I know we all love our teams and we think WE own them, but we don't. Was anyone cheering for the Browns going to pay Modell's bills? Apparently not.The man is dead...RIP. He wasn't a child murderer or kitten basher...he moved a team because he was left (seemingly) with no choice, financially. You don't have to love him, but the hate is a little overboard.When Matt Millen dies, please don't dig this post up and throw it in my face because I'll be the first to piss on his grave.I won't trounce on the man's grave, as I have made my peace as a Browns fan years ago. When it came to the move, there was plenty of blame to go around. However, the lion's share of responsibility for that situation was Modell's, and there is a laundry list of poor business decisions to validate it. He had other options, and they would have paid him just as much - if not more - money in the end. Still, it happened, and revisionist history won't change anything nor will it heal the wounds for some. Sad, but true.And what is wrong with kitten bashing? Oh, and feel free to say what you will on Millen. You couldn't set out to fuck up a franchinse on purpose and do more damage than he did to the Lions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InyaAzz Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Agreed...Modell made some bad decisions. However, the first bad decision he made was to save sports in Cleveland by taking over the stadium. Even he admits, after looking back at it...it was stupid, but he did it for Cleveland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pista Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 He could have sold it and left it here. Instead he moves it to Baltimore and ends up selling it there... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked94s10 Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Rip Art you had great vision in trying to do away with the worst football team ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcan_Rider Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 D-bag move taking the Browns to Baltimore, but hell he killed a sports franchise not a person. I'm still a browns fan and always will be even if we didnt have a team for 3 years. Granted had the team stayed and he still put the same people in place Cleveland would have a super bowl win but oh well.RIP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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