In 1996 the city of Baltimore finally found a football team. Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore leaving the history, team name and colors in Ohio. Baltimore didn’t get an expansion team, yet they essentially started brand new. The team got their name from Edgar Allen Poe’s poem The Raven and now it’s hard to imagine a different name.
While Modell would be vilified for moving his football team to Baltimore, he would become a hero to Maryland. The Ravens filled the void from when the Baltimore Colts moved to Indianapolis in 1984. While Cleveland would go through heartbreak, Baltimore had felt the same pain.