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RockCake
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[NFL] Art Modell has died

BALTIMORE -- Former Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell has died. He was 87.

The team said Modell died of natural causes early Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he had been admitted Wednesday.

Modell was among the most important figures in the NFL as owner of the Cleveland Browns, which became the Ravens after he took the team to Baltimore in 1996 in a move that tarnished his reputation as one of the league's most innovative and influential owners.

The Ravens won their lone Super Bowl in January 2001, less than a year after Modell sold a minority interest of the team to Steve Bisciotti. In April 2004. Bisciotti completed purchase of the franchise but left Modell a 1 percent share.

During his four decades as an NFL owner, Modell helped negotiate the league's lucrative contracts with television networks, served as president of the NFL from 1967 to 1969, and chaired the negotiations for the first the collective bargaining agreement with the players in 1968.

Full article: »espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/ ··· -dies-87

Guess they won't be shedding any tears in Cleveland, huh?

Silvanos
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Tonawanda, NY

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Ralph Wilson just spent a week in a hospital.

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The name was familiar and not just for football. He was part of the family that built the Modell's Sporting Goods chain. Modell's grandfather founded and his father built the enduring Modell's Sporting Goods chain in New York, still the largest such family-owned chain in the country to this day. »www.modells.com/category ··· story.do