It's been a great experience. The two are close, their wives are close, and the families even spend some holidays together. The last Thanksgiving dinner he had 58 grandchildren. So I went up there to visit and hand out season-ticket applications. Art Modell has been the butt of jokes for years, but he'll have the last laugh if the Ravens win in Tampa.
Football is their only business.
Not a hobby or plaything. This may well be the last Super Bowl with two owners who have never bothered to diversify their portfolios. What he has meant to the league. He is the National Football League to me. When Modell returned home early Monday from the Ravens' AFC title-game victory, a win that almost caught him unprepared for the outpouring of congratulations and good wishes that were to come, he found 27 message beeping on his home answering machine.