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Landry gets Cleveland-Baltimore history lesson

BEREA, Ohio -- Jarvis Landry got a history lesson Thursday afternoon.

"So really," he asked during a media gaggle, "the Cleveland team became the Baltimore Ravens?"

Yes, Landry was told, the team from Cleveland moved to Baltimore in 1995 -- then won the Super Bowl after the 2000 season.

"Damn," Landry said. "That hurt, didn't it?"

It did indeed hurt.

Cleveland fans protested the move so loud and so long that the NFL kept the team name and colors in Cleveland and brought the Browns back in 1999. But that expansion season started a stretch of ineptitude that has only ended in 2018 with the emergence of a young team and quarterback Baker Mayfield.