As a Boston Sports fan I am very sad for Oakland sports fans. Boston and Oakland has history together (Patriots roughing the Passer 1976, Pats vs Raiders 1985 divisional playoffs and Tuck Rule 2001). Red Sox vs A's after 1972-1974 3 year Championship Run 1975 Red Sox Ended it. A's between 1988-1990 3 year ALCS Championship run 1 World Series would beat the Red Sox 2 out of 3 ALCS 1988-1990 then 2003 Red Sox beat the A's 2003 divional playoffs. I sometimes wish the Red Sox and A's would have had a 5th time see who would have won the most between Boston and Oakland.
Great doc.. Crazy when you think about it, that the Baltimore Ravens started off as, and are really just the relocated '96 Cleveland Browns franchise. The Rings, the HoF players, the continued franchise success.. could've all belonged to Cleveland.
It's kinda like Cleveland has their heart ripped out over and over again... I'm a Philly Eagles fan but as far as the AFC goes I got a soft spot for the Browns...
There's a reason why browns fans pissed on Art Model's grave, why he never went back to Cleveland, and why he's currently buried in an undisclosed location.
Cleveland kept their colors. name, and records. The city was stupid enough to build a basketball arena, a baseball park, but ignored where the NFL was going. Cleveland eventually got the new stadium. You were just spared 5 years of more horrible Browns football.
@@whobilly1 I'm a lifelong Bills fan (goin on almost 40 years).. but I agree with that. My father, and most of his side of the family were all Browns fans. I grew up watching both, pretty much.. and it was sad watching them play their last game not really knowing what the future would hold.. especially for the fans. At least they came back to the league, I guess. I've always had a real soft spot for Browns fans and their franchise. 🤷🏻♂️✌🏻
23:18 even though there is no dialogue between Bill Belichick and Jeff Fisher but you can tell they were sympathizing with each other about both of their teams’ respective relocations. Coincidentally the oilers too announced they were moving to Tennessee.
Holy hell, I had no idea Saban was the DC for Belichick's Browns. Also, all the coaches that came from this tree is amazing! Just the lore contained in this episode is wild. So glad this was on my recommended.
Art Model had arguably the greatest coach of all time, arguably the greatest GM of all time, arguably the most passionate fans of all time, and he said "burn it".! Worst sports owner ever!
Been A Green Bay Packers fan sense 1995, When Model announced he was moving the Team i started learning about other teams. I went with the Packers cause what happened to me as a 15 year old would never happen again. Green Bay dosen't have a owner. I'd never have to go through that again.
I know Cleveland got the Browns back but December 17, 1995 was still one of the worst days in the history of Cleveland, Ohio. I remember watching the last game and still not believing the Browns were moving. They were literally the last team you would ever expect to abandon their city.
As a Browns fan this is really tough..all that talent with the coaches and Bill before the success in new England, Ozzie ..list goes on & on... and seeing the Ravens win 5 years after leaving was sooooo painful..all that talent in Baltimore was supposed to be in cleveland
@stanleygoss5922 It's really too damn bad that Art Modell had to claim to be so destitute that he couldn't shell out a reported five million bucks to gain the Colts name from Indianapolis and bring it back to Baltimore?
Since 1970 when modell moved to the afc the browns have played in .50 afc championships 3 in 54 years What fan base has been shit on more than Cleveland The majority of todays nfl fans have no idea that the ravens are the Cleveland browns This imposter franchise since 99 is all the blame of nfl Modell should have been forced to sell to Lerner Not keep the franchise Look At the talent assembled on the coaching and front office staff Totally screwed the fans
I watched this back in 2018 on UA-cam. I was hammered af so half of it is a blur. It just dawned on me watching it right now that it’s that sane video I watched. I swear it was a dream or something that never happened because I never have seen it again and never thought to look for it anywhere else. I can’t put into words how shocked I am 😂
Actually the rams moved, the Cardinals moved, the redskins moved, the lions moved, the cowboys moved and the chargers moved.... Watch your mouth when speaking of the great Al Davis.
@@Jon_D600during the last few years in Oakland? 😅😅 He hires back Art Shell and let's him go after 1 season of 8-8. Takes more than that to get a franchise back on track. Sure, Art got them winning and they thrived on the outlaw theme. But Art overstayed his presence in the late years
Back in the 90s I remember always thinking that no one worked harder as a coach than Belichick. He was slowly re tooling a depleted franchise. In those years he would pull off some pretty well thought out gadget plays and they usually worked. You knew he had spent tons of time prepping for games and understanding his opponent’s weaknesses. He just didn’t have enough talent to get to the next level before old Art pulled the plug. Woody Hayes used to say “We didn’t lose the game we just ran of time on the game clock”😂
It would be totally & completely dishonest of yours truly to say that I am a Cleveland Browns fan. But I am a big fan of the FANS OF THE CLEVELAND BROWNS (1946-1995). They are all very special people in my book & they will remain that way until the day I die.
The only successful head coaches were in college Nick Saban and Kirk Ferentz. Most of the GMs flamed out. (Pioli, Savage, Dmitroff Lombardi) except Ozzie All his assistants that became head coaches in NFL bombed out too, although Schwartz is a decent Defensive Coordinator. Belichick was the genius the rest of the guys were just decent assistants and personnel directors.
One of the worst days i have ever had in life. I had every emotion. Since that moment the Ravens have won 2 Super Bowls and Belichick went to New England and won 7 Super Bowls. While the Browns still haven't been to one. If im not mistaken, the Browns beat the 49ers in the preseason of 95' which they eventually won the Super Bowl that year and we were picked to go early in the year. Just a horrible time. Cleveland has the worst luck. Also, we have the drive, the fumble, the move and the decision.
My former home city has always been cursed for some reason. The Guardians (Indians)can't win a World Series, the Browns can't sustain any type of success. It's still a grade A miracle that the Cavs ended the championship drought in 2016. But even then, they've lost 4X in the finals. Even to this day, over 10 years since he passed, the curse of Modell still lingers over the Browns, and it doesn't look as if it'll break any time soon. 😕
The reason why I’m a packers fan. My dad couldn’t root for Pittsburgh, didn’t like the “honolulu blue,” and Brett Favre was all the rage. From Toledo Ohio, I was born in 93.
I'm a Raiders Fan. Anyone who says Bill isn't The Greatest Coach Ever, hasen't followed football since 1990. And I think Vince, and Al, and Paul, and Jimmy, and Bill Walsh, and Madden, and .......... are great coaches.
I've always wanted the Browns or Indians/Guardians to win a title when they get the chance. They got rid of Baker and signed Deshaun and that changed it for me. But seeing how the franchise drafted two HOFers immediately after leaving and winning a ring within 5 years is brutal. Nevermind Belichick becoming what he became.
@@deyonnapattie8973going to 4 consecutive super bowls actually was quite a feat. The Bills teams were stacked. But the nfc team had better defense. And if Norwood makes that kick against the Giants, then Buffalo has at least one championship 😊
I remember Madden saying during that 95 season, Belichik was not a good head coach and would never win a Super Bowl. He was correct in one sense. Bill didnt win a super bowl. He got 6 😅😊 But it feels like Modell did Cleveland dirty or worse than the owner of the Colts did moving them to Indy in the middle of the night 🤔🤔
Cleveland botched it up. Should have also built a football stadium when they were building the baseball park and basketball arena. Modell knew where the NFL was heading. Remember that he was influential in the birth of Monday Night Football. The Colts left with the team name, colors, and records in the middle of the night.
Football gods saw that bill belichick was gonna lead browns to the super bowl one day and had to take their team away from them now ever since their return they've never recovered from failing
Let's be real: the browns needed a new stadium. Cleveland municipal was built during the great depression, and it was originally a baseball stadium. Plus, in 1994, the indians, the original tenants of the stadium, got a new, baseball only stadium. Meanwhile, the browns were still stuck playing there
Tom Brady had no touchdowns and 2 interceptions his first start he had 18 touchdowns and 12 picks didn’t play in the conference championship game and had 16 completions for under 200 yards yet you think Brady carried that team? Lol comical. If Brady went to Cleveland he’s probably out of the nfl in a few years
Lived in Canada my whole life I'm 43 my Irish great grandfather was from Cleveland and a distant relative of mine was the first baton twirler in the st Patrick's day parade. Always been a Browns fan and I remember how much this hurt my relatives that lived in Ohio
This is very misleading. The Browns were preseason favorites to be AFC Champions, and they did start 3-1. But then they lost three straight games. No shame in losing to the AFC East Champion Bills, even at home on MNF. But then they were blown out by the 1-3 Lions (they were down 31-10 with six minutes to go), and then they lost to the 2-5 expansion Jaguars. Belichick benched Vinny Testaverde for Eric Zeier. Zeier won his first start over the Bengals to lift the Browns back to .500. That's when the move to Baltimore was announced. But the team was headed for a .500 season, not an AFC Championship, when the move was announced.
They might not have gotten to the Super Bowl that year but maybe they break through a couple years later than expected. What’s interesting though is with the preseason expectations would Modell have fired Belichick if they did miss the playoffs
They lost 2 games to the Jaguars , final game of the season in Jacksonville first time in NFL history a team had lost 2 games to an expansion team in a season
@ what did Antonio Langham say? After the move was announced guys stopped playing hard the season was over at that point in time. Look maybe the team wasn’t winning the Super Bowl that year but they were headed in the right direction. What’s different about this and other teams relocating is that the team is bad there’s talk of the team leaving for a few years and the fans don’t care anymore. They had a good team and were selling out all the home games
@garydizzine No. They were headed in the wrong direction. They had broken through with a playoff appearance in 1994, and were expected to continue to ascend in 1995. Instead, they were a .500 team even before the move was announced. I wouldn't have a lot of faith in Eric Zeier turning the team around. (Belichick had benched Vinny Testaverde for Zeier before the move.)
@ They were 4-4 you’re acting like they were the expansion Buccaneers or the 0-16 Browns from 2017. I can probably name you more than a few teams who were 4-4 at Halloween and made the playoffs
I don't want to be hard, but when you think of all the steel mills, auto plants, machine shops, rubber and tire mills that have closed in Ohio over the years, it is REALLY hard to feel sorry for 60 or 70 millionaires having to move and not even lose their jobs. And then they got a new franchise in '99. Interesting, not sad. Sad is a million working, union men getting kicked out of work and having to beg for a job at Taco Bell.
Had to stop watching 5 minutes in. I’ll revisit this video when I’m up to it. We got screwed royally. The Browns were everything to me back then. As a foundational member of the NFL, I can’t believe they let Model take the team. Damn shame.
Bill Belichick was a great DC for the Giants. I always thought that the Giants should've made him head coach instead of the onr thry did. That was a mistske.
Modell should NEVER be in the Hall of Fame. Look at this deadbeat's resume - Fired Paul Brown, arguably one of the greatest coaches/innovators of all time, was too cheap to pay Jim Brown - forced him into retirement, got punked by Elway 3 times, didn't take a stadium deal when the then Indians got theirs, fired BB, THE greatest coach of all time, and then ripped the still beating heart out of the legendary, loyal, rabid fan base and city by moving the damn team because he was an absurdly inept businessman and a coward.
Andre Risen...enough said. Art Modell was a liar and a thief, All he had to do was be honest and upfront and it would have all been figured out. He had enormous debt and selfishly did what he needed to do.
Cleveland should have done better. Like my Raiders. It's business. You can have all the fans in the world. Then, the city won't play ball. The owner wants more. Etc.........
I'd much rather see a Baltimore Hockey team. UMD and JHU actually played the first American game of hockey in 1898. Shame that the Skipjacks/Clippers never took off.
Oh wow hockey was in Baltimore Maryland I forgot about the American hockey league has Baltimore teams thank you for telling me that I remember Baltimore did have a hockey team in the AHL not the NHL
Oakland A’s fans are feeling this at this exact moment. Last home game.
As a Boston Sports fan I am very sad for Oakland sports fans. Boston and Oakland has history together (Patriots roughing the Passer 1976, Pats vs Raiders 1985 divisional playoffs and Tuck Rule 2001). Red Sox vs A's after 1972-1974 3 year Championship Run 1975 Red Sox Ended it. A's between 1988-1990 3 year ALCS Championship run 1 World Series would beat the Red Sox 2 out of 3 ALCS 1988-1990 then 2003 Red Sox beat the A's 2003 divional playoffs. I sometimes wish the Red Sox and A's would have had a 5th time see who would have won the most between Boston and Oakland.
No. I'm a die hard Raiders fan. Oakland has so many problems. Best thing The Raiders ever did was get out of that cesspool.
@@bostonspencer2979that Sugar Bear Hamilton roughing the passer call was BS.
Yep.
@@whataboutrob442 Agreed! 👍👍👍👍👍
Great doc..
Crazy when you think about it, that the Baltimore Ravens started off as, and are really just the relocated '96 Cleveland Browns franchise. The Rings, the HoF players, the continued franchise success.. could've all belonged to Cleveland.
It's kinda like Cleveland has their heart ripped out over and over again... I'm a Philly Eagles fan but as far as the AFC goes I got a soft spot for the Browns...
@@VaderPopsVicodin10 wow your captain obvious now aren't you stupid
There's a reason why browns fans pissed on Art Model's grave, why he never went back to Cleveland, and why he's currently buried in an undisclosed location.
Cleveland kept their colors. name, and records. The city was stupid enough to build a basketball arena, a baseball park, but ignored where the NFL was going. Cleveland eventually got the new stadium. You were just spared 5 years of more horrible Browns football.
@@whobilly1 I'm a lifelong Bills fan (goin on almost 40 years).. but I agree with that. My father, and most of his side of the family were all Browns fans. I grew up watching both, pretty much.. and it was sad watching them play their last game not really knowing what the future would hold.. especially for the fans. At least they came back to the league, I guess. I've always had a real soft spot for Browns fans and their franchise. 🤷🏻♂️✌🏻
The league screwed over that fan base.
Still are.
Always
Still suffering from it.
Funny how nobody blames Art. Too beloved a figure I guess?
@@kyleford8362 that jag off goes without saying. The problem is that the league let him get away with it.
23:18 even though there is no dialogue between Bill Belichick and Jeff Fisher but you can tell they were sympathizing with each other about both of their teams’ respective relocations. Coincidentally the oilers too announced they were moving to Tennessee.
Holy hell, I had no idea Saban was the DC for Belichick's Browns. Also, all the coaches that came from this tree is amazing! Just the lore contained in this episode is wild. So glad this was on my recommended.
Art Model had arguably the greatest coach of all time, arguably the greatest GM of all time, arguably the most passionate fans of all time, and he said "burn it".! Worst sports owner ever!
Baltimore was a better choice for expansion in 1995 than either Charlotte or Jacksonville. The NFL was responsible for this PR disaster.
Bill was always on the exercise bike, and eating. Awsome.
I cried alot...
Been A Green Bay Packers fan sense 1995, When Model announced he was moving the Team i started learning about other teams. I went with the Packers cause what happened to me as a 15 year old would never happen again. Green Bay dosen't have a owner. I'd never have to go through that again.
I know Cleveland got the Browns back but December 17, 1995 was still one of the worst days in the history of Cleveland, Ohio. I remember watching the last game and still not believing the Browns were moving. They were literally the last team you would ever expect to abandon their city.
Along with the Colts 11 years earlier
29 years ago today…
As a Browns fan this is really tough..all that talent with the coaches and Bill before the success in new England, Ozzie ..list goes on & on... and seeing the Ravens win 5 years after leaving was sooooo painful..all that talent in Baltimore was supposed to be in cleveland
That's how it felt with a lot of people I'm sure. But also swapping Vinnie for Eric Zeyer repeatedly didn't help in the 95 season
❤😊 I signed the petition to keep the browns name in Cleveland
Heart goes out to the Browns. I just wish Baltimore still had the Colts.
😂 what the Ravens don’t count the last 25 plus years
@ Ravens are great, but the Baltimore Colts just has more nostalgia to me personally.
@stanleygoss5922 It's really too damn bad that Art Modell had to claim to be so destitute that he couldn't shell out a reported five million bucks to gain the Colts name from Indianapolis and bring it back to Baltimore?
@@gregpaspatis9425As a Ravens fan, that could've been the best of both worlds.
@@stanleygoss5922Baltimore = Hypocrisy
Since 1970 when modell moved to the afc the browns have played in .50 afc championships
3 in 54 years
What fan base has been shit on more than Cleveland
The majority of todays nfl fans have no idea that the ravens are the Cleveland browns
This imposter franchise since 99 is all the blame of nfl
Modell should have been forced to sell to Lerner
Not keep the franchise
Look
At the talent assembled on the coaching and front office staff
Totally screwed the fans
I watched this back in 2018 on UA-cam. I was hammered af so half of it is a blur. It just dawned on me watching it right now that it’s that sane video I watched. I swear it was a dream or something that never happened because I never have seen it again and never thought to look for it anywhere else. I can’t put into words how shocked I am 😂
People can either thank or hate Al Davis for the moves made in the 80s and 90s, he was the one that started the moves.
Actually the rams moved, the Cardinals moved, the redskins moved, the lions moved, the cowboys moved and the chargers moved.... Watch your mouth when speaking of the great Al Davis.
@@Jon_D600during the last few years in Oakland? 😅😅 He hires back Art Shell and let's him go after 1 season of 8-8. Takes more than that to get a franchise back on track. Sure, Art got them winning and they thrived on the outlaw theme. But Art overstayed his presence in the late years
@@stormlakebobcat9058 why are you talking about coaches? This comment is about relocation.
Belichick looked 50 years old his entire life.
He's like American-Gordon Ramsay
Yes, being a part of The Browns coach, fan or other will suck the life blood right out of you 😮
Back in the 90s I remember always thinking that no one worked harder as a coach than Belichick. He was slowly re tooling a depleted franchise. In those years he would pull off some pretty well thought out gadget plays and they usually worked.
You knew he had spent tons of time prepping for games and understanding his opponent’s weaknesses.
He just didn’t have enough talent to get to the next level before old Art pulled the plug. Woody Hayes used to say
“We didn’t lose the game we just ran of time on the game clock”😂
It would be totally & completely dishonest of yours truly to say that I am a Cleveland Browns fan. But I am a big fan of the FANS OF THE CLEVELAND BROWNS (1946-1995). They are all very special people in my book & they will remain that way until the day I die.
Thank you
The untold story of Bill Belichick's Cleveland Browns and a talented staff who rose from the ashes of the 1995 season.
A talented staff?? None of them did anything in the NFL
The only successful head coaches were in college Nick Saban and Kirk Ferentz. Most of the GMs flamed out. (Pioli, Savage, Dmitroff Lombardi) except Ozzie All his assistants that became head coaches in NFL bombed out too, although Schwartz is a decent Defensive Coordinator. Belichick was the genius the rest of the guys were just decent assistants and personnel directors.
You are 100% Good Sir. Hawkeye fan here. But, also a Saban and Belichick fan.
Belichick’s record without Brady is abysmal
Don’t forget Ozzie Newsome, he was a damned good GM. I’d say his most impressive assistant coach was Tom Brady.
@@crowtservoOzzy was the man and deserves more credit
P
One of the worst days i have ever had in life. I had every emotion. Since that moment the Ravens have won 2 Super Bowls and Belichick went to New England and won 7 Super Bowls. While the Browns still haven't been to one. If im not mistaken, the Browns beat the 49ers in the preseason of 95' which they eventually won the Super Bowl that year and we were picked to go early in the year. Just a horrible time. Cleveland has the worst luck. Also, we have the drive, the fumble, the move and the decision.
The Cowboys won the Super Bowl for the 1995 season, 49 ers won the Super Bowl for the 1994 season , last ones for both
@michaelleroy9281 the year they didn't win
@michaelleroy9281 if I'm not mistaken it was 3 of 4
Even as an Atlanta fan, this was just so wrong
We got the “Browns” back but it’s a shell of the organisation it once was. Haslam has decimated this club and makes Model look like a saint.
37:09 "on to cincinnati"... it always comes back to that. lol.
Cleveland did not deserve this. I forgot it is only business. 😢😢😢
I wear an Ozzie jersey. He is always loved in Cleveland.
Art should never make any hall of fame. Only shame.
Let it go
As long as the hall of fame is in Canton, that dude will never get in
Schwartz would have destroyed Harbaugh if he knew what Jim was doing. And, I don't have a dog in that fight.
Remember, Ozzie newsome drafted lamar jackson
My former home city has always been cursed for some reason. The Guardians (Indians)can't win a World Series, the Browns can't sustain any type of success. It's still a grade A miracle that the Cavs ended the championship drought in 2016. But even then, they've lost 4X in the finals. Even to this day, over 10 years since he passed, the curse of Modell still lingers over the Browns, and it doesn't look as if it'll break any time soon. 😕
They have to get to the World Series first before they can think about winning it like they did in 1995 and 1997 and 2016
The reason why I’m a packers fan. My dad couldn’t root for Pittsburgh, didn’t like the “honolulu blue,” and Brett Favre was all the rage. From Toledo Ohio, I was born in 93.
Love the Jake Brown's fans!
The Philadelphia Eagles almost moved to Phoenix. The City built sky boxes at the VET, which curtailed that move.
I'm a Raiders Fan. Anyone who says Bill isn't The Greatest Coach Ever, hasen't followed football since 1990. And I think Vince, and Al, and Paul, and Jimmy, and Bill Walsh, and Madden, and .......... are great coaches.
I've always wanted the Browns or Indians/Guardians to win a title when they get the chance. They got rid of Baker and signed Deshaun and that changed it for me. But seeing how the franchise drafted two HOFers immediately after leaving and winning a ring within 5 years is brutal. Nevermind Belichick becoming what he became.
2020 ruined football for me..... I was upset when baker kneeled for the anthem ....
To have the browns move was one thing, losing the stadium really sucked. Going down the shoreway and not seeing the chief...
Everyone forgets Bill won super bowl with the giants and beat the mighty buffalo bills and won many Superbowls with the Patriots ❤
As DC , not head coach with Giants
Why were the Bills so mighty ? I’m being serious …FOUR SUPER BOWL LOSSES IN A ROW …. WTF 😬
@@deyonnapattie8973going to 4 consecutive super bowls actually was quite a feat. The Bills teams were stacked. But the nfc team had better defense. And if Norwood makes that kick against the Giants, then Buffalo has at least one championship 😊
And look at where Belichek and Saban ended up. Cleveland had it all and blew it!
Watching this now I’d love to see Bill Belicheck coach the Browns in 2025
Lifelong Browns fan, and in 2024 Cleveland STILL can’t catch a break. Ugh.
14:52 even in the nineties Bill was on to Cincinnati
His grave will read:
Here lies WILLIAM BELICHICK
"On To Cincinnati....."
I heard that !!! Lol
I remember Madden saying during that 95 season, Belichik was not a good head coach and would never win a Super Bowl. He was correct in one sense. Bill didnt win a super bowl. He got 6 😅😊
But it feels like Modell did Cleveland dirty or worse than the owner of the Colts did moving them to Indy in the middle of the night 🤔🤔
I always found it ironic that the city that had their team move out in the middle of the night ended up stealing Cleveland’s team!
Mary Kay Cabot
Schwing
Cleveland botched it up. Should have also built a football stadium when they were building the baseball park and basketball arena. Modell knew where the NFL was heading. Remember that he was influential in the birth of Monday Night Football. The Colts left with the team name, colors, and records in the middle of the night.
Ogden and Lewis. Offense and defence.
The owner, Art Modell sabotaged the morale of the Cleveland Browns football team in 1995.
Football gods saw that bill belichick was gonna lead browns to the super bowl one day and had to take their team away from them now ever since their return they've never recovered from failing
People burned their Browns gear... and had to buy new stuff in 1999
I have the luckiest choice that I will indeed like the fabulous Raven costume. I loved it! Thanks!
About browns but somehow talked pats😂😂😂😂😂
Let's be real: the browns needed a new stadium. Cleveland municipal was built during the great depression, and it was originally a baseball stadium. Plus, in 1994, the indians, the original tenants of the stadium, got a new, baseball only stadium. Meanwhile, the browns were still stuck playing there
Since 2012 the Browns have won one playoff game
in 30 years, the Browns have won 1 playoff game, its pathetic
Baltimore Colts forever
He was 36-44 at Cleveland
And has a losing record without Tom Brady
Tom Brady had no touchdowns and 2 interceptions his first start he had 18 touchdowns and 12 picks didn’t play in the conference championship game and had 16 completions for under 200 yards yet you think Brady carried that team? Lol comical. If Brady went to Cleveland he’s probably out of the nfl in a few years
@@JJJJ-he8bz Tom Brady turns two jokes of a franchise into Super Bowl winners
Bill is at UNC
It's So Sad That Bill Belichick Was Worst Head Coach Of Cleveland Browns From 1991 To 1993 With 20 Wins And 28 Loss
Lived in Canada my whole life I'm 43 my Irish great grandfather was from Cleveland and a distant relative of mine was the first baton twirler in the st Patrick's day parade. Always been a Browns fan and I remember how much this hurt my relatives that lived in Ohio
This is very misleading. The Browns were preseason favorites to be AFC Champions, and they did start 3-1. But then they lost three straight games. No shame in losing to the AFC East Champion Bills, even at home on MNF. But then they were blown out by the 1-3 Lions (they were down 31-10 with six minutes to go), and then they lost to the 2-5 expansion Jaguars. Belichick benched Vinny Testaverde for Eric Zeier. Zeier won his first start over the Bengals to lift the Browns back to .500. That's when the move to Baltimore was announced. But the team was headed for a .500 season, not an AFC Championship, when the move was announced.
They might not have gotten to the Super Bowl that year but maybe they break through a couple years later than expected. What’s interesting though is with the preseason expectations would Modell have fired Belichick if they did miss the playoffs
They lost 2 games to the Jaguars , final game of the season in Jacksonville first time in NFL history a team had lost 2 games to an expansion team in a season
@ what did Antonio Langham say? After the move was announced guys stopped playing hard the season was over at that point in time. Look maybe the team wasn’t winning the Super Bowl that year but they were headed in the right direction. What’s different about this and other teams relocating is that the team is bad there’s talk of the team leaving for a few years and the fans don’t care anymore. They had a good team and were selling out all the home games
@garydizzine No. They were headed in the wrong direction. They had broken through with a playoff appearance in 1994, and were expected to continue to ascend in 1995. Instead, they were a .500 team even before the move was announced. I wouldn't have a lot of faith in Eric Zeier turning the team around. (Belichick had benched Vinny Testaverde for Zeier before the move.)
@ They were 4-4 you’re acting like they were the expansion Buccaneers or the 0-16 Browns from 2017. I can probably name you more than a few teams who were 4-4 at Halloween and made the playoffs
Remember all this. Modell, would just been more patient! Cleveland would have been New England, and Baltimore!
The Browns should invite BB back, straight from a Steeler fan
I don't want to be hard, but when you think of all the steel mills, auto plants, machine shops, rubber and tire mills that have closed in Ohio over the years, it is REALLY hard to feel sorry for 60 or 70 millionaires having to move and not even lose their jobs. And then they got a new franchise in '99. Interesting, not sad. Sad is a million working, union men getting kicked out of work and having to beg for a job at Taco Bell.
Had to stop watching 5 minutes in. I’ll revisit this video when I’m up to it. We got screwed royally. The Browns were everything to me back then. As a foundational member of the NFL, I can’t believe they let Model take the team. Damn shame.
Bill Belichick was a great DC for the Giants. I always thought that the Giants should've made him head coach instead of the onr thry did. That was a mistske.
Modell should NEVER be in the Hall of Fame. Look at this deadbeat's resume - Fired Paul Brown, arguably one of the greatest coaches/innovators of all time, was too cheap to pay Jim Brown - forced him into retirement, got punked by Elway 3 times, didn't take a stadium deal when the then Indians got theirs, fired BB, THE greatest coach of all time, and then ripped the still beating heart out of the legendary, loyal, rabid fan base and city by moving the damn team because he was an absurdly inept businessman and a coward.
Now they moving to Brookpark in a dome
Was a glorious day for Baltimore. Stupid Tagliabue had to give teams to garbage Jacksonville and Charlotte. NFL got what they deserved
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Andre Risen...enough said. Art Modell was a liar and a thief, All he had to do was be honest and upfront and it would have all been figured out. He had enormous debt and selfishly did what he needed to do.
Man that 90's fashion..they some clothes I hope don't become popular again lol
Cleveland should have done better. Like my Raiders. It's business. You can have all the fans in the world. Then, the city won't play ball. The owner wants more. Etc.........
Glad the Haslems are moving out of stench hole Cleveland to Brookpark good for him
Should be Baltimore colts
It’s to bad but , it’s kinda Cleveland’s own fault. They played in a dump in a small market and the owner it sounds deep down was losing a fortune.
Depression wow lol
Worst of all, the Ravens won it all in 2000. That was the Browns SB.
And bye the way. My favorite player is Walter Payton.
And they Trying in 2025 to move us to Parma now😠😡🤬
You got a new team and kept your name we didn't get shit let's go Baltimore
I’m sorry… not sorry…. But…. They’re still the Browns!!
31:28…..sorry honey but nobody gave a Super Bowl to the Ravens. They earned it.
So the city not revamping the stadium was not the reason?
What more could you do with a stadium that opened in the 1930's?
Bill could not have cared less, the man has absolutely no soul.
What if Bill had come to Baltimore to be the head coach🤔🤔🤔
Art built a model franchise in Baltimore. Deserves HOF just for that
Art modell is burning in hell
And the nfl for bailing him out as a pathetic business owner
Fired Paul brown
Enough said
Squidward: I sure do love being a fan of the Cleveland Browns on November 6th, 1995
Spongebob: I'm moving the team to Baltimore, Squidward.
Now all we need is nba basketball to come back to Baltimore since the bullets moved to Washington DC
I'd much rather see a Baltimore Hockey team. UMD and JHU actually played the first American game of hockey in 1898. Shame that the Skipjacks/Clippers never took off.
Oh wow hockey was in Baltimore Maryland I forgot about the American hockey league has Baltimore teams thank you for telling me that I remember Baltimore did have a hockey team in the AHL not the NHL
F Baltimore! Hypocrites!
I've never, ever, heard ask or say to Ozzie. Why? I know the answer. I'm just asking you woke people.
He had a job and it moved...love Ozzy
The city screwed themselves
only saban was successful from that coaching tree... everyone else sucked 😂😂
FUNNY, it’s the same OLD BROWNS …..
thank GOODNESS I don’t follow the NFL like I did……….
It’s all BULL 💩…..
ITS ALL A SHOW
ITS RIGGED
Who rigs it and how is it rigged?
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Watch the games, how they turn out
The points during PRIME TIME GAMES
ITS ALL RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU
ITS NOT DECIDED ON THE FIELD ANYMORE !!!!!!!!
In your opinion
@@chrispacer4231 You didn't answer who and how...just a conspiracy theory
I was 11 years old and all I remember is my dad saying f art modell all the time lol 🤎🧡
None of Bills guys won superbowls
That’s how crappy nfl can be. Bunch of slappys