San Diego Union-Tribune · Oct 14, 2018
Reviled ex-Browns owner raised trophy; will Spanos do same?
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers points in the first half against the Cleveland Browns, Oct. 14, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Richard) (David Richard/AP)Scorned and under siege — that’s how Art Modell felt after he moved his NFL club.
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“Now I know how Art Modell feels.”
Dean Spanos is reported to have uttered those seven words of pain.
The backlash from San Diegans, like the wrath of Clevelanders toward Modell, had reached Spanos after he and siblings chose to relocate the Chargers in January 2017.
The Browns had played 50 consecutive seasons in Cleveland.
