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The Cleveland Browns relocation controversy, sometimes referred to by fans as "The Move", was the decision by then-Browns owner Art Modell to move the National Football League (NFL) team from its longtime home of Cleveland, Ohio, to Baltimore, Maryland, for the 1996 NFL season. Subsequent legal actions saw a unique compromise that would later set a precedent in American professional sports: A relocating franchise would keep its existing personnel, but such personnel would form (and thus become) an entirely new, separate franchise (in this case, the Browns' original personnel becoming the Baltimore Ravens). The relocated franchise's original heritage would stay in its original city, with new personnel eventually reactivating the officially suspended franchise, thus becoming the new personnel of, and officially continuing the supposedly relocated franchise. ==Early stages of the move== In 1973, then-Browns owner Art Modell signed a 25-year lease to operate Cleveland Stadium.〔 Modell's newly formed company, Stadium Corporation, paid an annual rent of $150,000 for the first five years and $200,000 afterwards to the city. In exchange, the company received all revenue generated by the stadium, which amounted to far more than the Stadium Corp. would pay in rent. This represented an enormous loss for the city of Cleveland. Stadium Corp installed new electronic scoreboards and luxury suites.〔Munson, Lester. (A Busted Play ). Sports Illustrated. 4 December 1995. Retrieved 19 May 2011.〕 Renting the suites and the scoreboard advertising generated substantial revenue for Stadium Corp and Modell. However, Modell refused to share the suite revenue with the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team (which also played at Cleveland Stadium), even though much of the revenues were generated during baseball games as well as football games. Financial problems eventually led to Modell moving the Browns. In 1990, the Indians prevailed upon the local governments and voters and convinced them to build them their own facility where they controlled the suite revenue.〔〔 Modell, mistakenly believing that his revenues were not endangered, refused to participate in the Gateway Project that built Jacobs Field (now known as Progressive Field) for the Indians and Gund Arena (now known as Quicken Loans Arena) for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.〔Naymik, Mark. (Art Modell was offered a stadium for the Cleveland Browns and passed ). Cleveland Plain Dealer. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.〕 Modell's assumptions proved incorrect, and Stadium Corp's suite revenues declined sharply when the Indians moved from the stadium to Jacobs Field in 1994.〔 Soaring player salaries and deficits also contributed to Modell's financial losses. Modell lost $21 million between 1993 and 1994. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cleveland Browns relocation controversy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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