Baltimore Bombers

Baltimore Bombers

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 professional football teams during the absence of an NFL franchise, 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 of the NFL Bombers proposal, the CFL 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 city's entry was called the Baltimore Bombers, in honor of the B-26 Marauder, a World War II bomber designed by the Glenn L. Martin Company, and produced in Baltimore.

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 to Baltimore the following season, naming it the Baltimore Ravens and sending the Stallions to Montreal to become the Montreal Alouettes in the process. Modell left the Browns name and history to the city of Cleveland and the league for a future Browns revival) unlike Robert Irsay's Baltimore Colts who took the teams fabled history with them without any rebuke from the NFL.= Proposed Logo =The proposed main logo showed the silhouette of a "generic" WWII-era bomber (not the silhouette of the B-26 Marauder). Note the use of a shield as the main logo element, the name of the team atop the shield, and the sunburst - all elements of the Baltimore Ravens initial primary logo.

A link to the proposed logo can be found here [http://www.logoserver.com/football/BaltimoreBombers93a.gif] and in the reference link (as seen on the notional helmet)

References

* [http://www.misterhabs.com/nfl-proto.htm]


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