The Ravens aren't the “Old Browns.”

To quote my friend Turtle, “If I hear someone talk about the “old Browns vs. the new Browns” on Sunday, I’ll destroy them.”

A few points for folks – The Ravens aren’t the “old Browns.” When Modell moved the team from Cleveland to Baltimore following the 1995 season, he didn’t take the team name, colors, and history. He simply took the players. Cleveland got to keep all of that. Those players started playing in Baltimore in 1996 under a new name, team, and identity.

That is a lot different from when the Colts left Baltimore in the middle of the night. They took the team name, colors, and history when that bastard Irsay moved the Colts to Indy. The only thing he didn’t take were the Colt band Uniforms, which were at the cleaners that night (which allowed the band to stay in Baltimore and continue playing, even though Baltimore no longer had an NFL team, until the Colts band was adopted by the Ravens to become Baltimore’s Marching Ravens).

I don’t think people call the Indy Colts “the Old Baltimore Colts” and I don’t think people said it was “The Old Colts vs. the New Colts” when Baltimore played Indy last year, even though it was two franchises with two different names and histories playing each other, much like in the Ravens vs. Browns game Sunday.
Just shows you how stupid announcers on TV are…