The Art Modell Law, passed in 1996 after the Browns became the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland was left without an NFL team for three seasons, applies to all professional sports te ...

The Baltimore Ravens are not the old Cleveland Browns. When Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell wanted to shift the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, he faced a backlash from fans. Thus, he just formed ...

"Ravens gives us a strong nickname that is not common to teams at any level, and it gives one that means something, historically, to this community," the late Modell stated in 1996. Since then, ...