Logo of the Baltimore Ravens football team, used in their inaugural season in the NFL in 1996, until 1998. The Ravens came into existence when owner Art Modell abandoned Cleveland after the ’95 season, moving his Browns to Baltimore. The team’s nickname is derived from the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, who is buried in the city. After representatives from Cleveland sued the NFL over the Browns’ relocation, a settlement was reached that forced Modell to surrender the team’s name, color scheme and affiliation with the Browns’ past history, which pretty much made the Ravens a quasi-expansion team. When the Browns returned to the NFL in 1999, they were considered a “reactivated” franchise. The Ravens won a Super Bowl for Modell in 2000.