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Calling for stability in the NFL
Latest team move provides focal point for owners' meeting
The Associated Press
"It's a very, very serious problem," Modell said of franchise movement after the Browns joined the Raiders and Rams to become the third team to move within a year. "It's something we have to address with the utmost urgency."
GRAPEVINE, Texas — Art Modell declared yesterday that the Brown's move to Baltimore is all but irrevocable, but he also joined fellow owners in calling for stability in the NFL.
"They are the Cleveland Browns, and they will be the Cleveland Browns until the owners in the NFL say they are no longer the Cleveland Browns." White said.
Modell argued his case at the NFL owners' meetings, while Cleveland Mayor Michael White appealed to the group to keep the Browns from leaving.
The 70-year-old Model, however, ruled out any chance of the Browns staying in Cleveland — even if the city builds a new stadium for them or improves the old one.
"The bridge is down, burned, disappeared," Modell said. "There's not even a canoe there for me."
Although commissioner Paul Tagliabue said that he had no idea how the owners would vote on the transfer, an informal poll indicated that while there was initial opposition, the owners are likely to let Modell, a league insider for 35 years, move. Approval of 23 of 30 owners is needed.
Modell denied a report on ABC's Monday Night Football that he was $50 million in debt, claiming the Browns have lost $21 million during the past two years.
The Browns-to-Ballimore bombshell gave the meetings an entirely new focal point. There was even a demonstration of about 30 people protesting the move outside the hotel where the meetings took place.
Dallas owner Jerry Jones and his favorite antagonist, 49ers president Carmen Policy, competed for cameras on the day after Jones answered the NFL's $300 million suit over revenue sharing with a $750 million antitrust suit of his own. Policy blamed Jones for some of the financial problems which led the teams to relocate; Jones blamed the NFL.
Also yesterday:
Dueling news conferences featuring Modell and Mayor White, who each argued his case over the
That won't happen at least until January while Tagliabue decides on his recommendations. Still, the Browns will be a team without a home for the rest of this season.
Browns' relocation to Baltimore.
Modell, who had not missed a game in the 35 years he has owned the Browns before his no-show Sunday, said he won't attend the three remaining games in Cleveland.
It was White who best stated the problem facing the NFL — the "franchise free agency" that the Browns move implies.
"What's the impact for the NFL if it allows that team to kick the city in the teeth?" Cleveland's mayor asked.
"It happened to Oakland; nobody said anything. It happened in Los Angeles; nobody said anything. It's happening in Houston; nobody said a word. How many cities are going to be threatened in this way before the NFL recognizes that it's bad for the country and bad for the league?"
And that's the problem the league is facing.
While the Browns move tops the agenda, the owners were also preparing to take up Bud Adams' desire to move the Oilers from Houston to Nashville. Teen.
Tagliabue has already pledged to fill the void in Los Angeles, perhaps with Seattle, and Tampa Bay could
Denver, Chicago and Cincinnati also want new stadiums, as do Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Washington.
move after the season to Orlando.
Tagliabue and the owners also addressed a problem they didn't anticipate when the salary cap was instituted — a growing gap in revenues between "haves" and "havenots."
One reason is that the revenues that the "haves" get from luxury boxes, increased parking fees and other non-shared revenues go into the cap after they reach a certain point, increasing the cap and, in Tagliabucci's words, "forcing some teams to spend money they don't have."
Another is that the cap has been used in ways that have allowed teams to pay relatively small salaries with large signing bonuses that are amortized over several years. Modell said that he had borrowed $5 million for a signed bonus for Andre Rison because he didn't have the cash on hand, but he noted that teams like New England and Dallas had the money for their players.
"Jerry Jones signed Delon Sanders and all he had to do was to go to his checkbook," he said. "Bob Kraft signed Drew Bledsoe and all he had to do was go to his checkbook. I can't do that."
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