“The Modell Law is clear: if you take taxpayer money to fund your stadium, you have obligations to the community that made that investment possible,” Cleveland Law Director Mark Griffin said in a statement, via Adam Ferrise of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cleveland filed the lawsuit in the...
Last month,cleveland.comand Plain Dealer Editor Chris Quinn called it a chess match — the negotiations between the Browns and the city of Cleveland over how to pay for an estimated $1 billion renovation of the lakefront football stadium. This week, Browns owners Jimmy ...
were embarrassed to be starting over again, according to confidants. This was not what they envisioned when they bought the team in 2012, after being minority owners of the Steelers. Haslam had personally made the decision to hire Jackson in 2016, against the recommendation...
And McNeil gets that frustration, the idea that no NFL team should bethis bad, that no NFL team should seem to hit rock bottom and onlyget worse. Speaking to theCleveland Plain-Dealerearlier in 2017 about plans for the 2016 parade, he said: ...