Baltimore Bombers
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The Baltimore Bombers were a proposed National Football League football team in the 1990's.
The city of Baltimore had a tradition of football with the Baltimore Colts, who later left for Indianapolis in the 1980s. The city kept minor league teams during the absence of NFL football, winning championships in both the USFL (Baltimore Stars) and the CFL (Baltimore Stallions). The Stars (along with the USFL) had long since disbanded, but at the time, the Stallions were still in Baltimore and among the CFL's best performing American teams. During the NFL's expansion in 1995, the city was one of 5 finalists (the others being Saint Louis, Memphis, Jacksonville, and Charlotte). The cities entry was called the Baltimore Bombers.
Baltimore, however, was passed up in favor of the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars. Although failing to gain one of the two openings for the 1995 season, Art Modell moved his franchise (formerly known as the Cleveland Browns, although the league demanded that Modell surrender the Browns name and history to the city of Cleveland and the league for a future Browns revival) to Baltimore the following season, naming it the Baltimore Ravens and sending the Stallions to Montreal to become the Montreal Alouettes in the process.
