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FirstEnergy Stadium
On your left, sitting near the shore of Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor, is First Energy Stadium, home of the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland’s National Football League team. The stadium also hosts college and high school football games, soccer games, and concerts. It was opened in 1999, replacing Cleveland Municipal Stadium, which had hosted the Browns since the ‘40s. The reason for switching up stadiums was that Browns owner Art Modell moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he started the Baltimore Ravens with many of his Browns employees. Cleveland wanted to make such an extra-clean break from Modell’s controversial legacy that it demolished the Municipal Stadium and threw the debris in the lake, where the fish could enjoy it as an artificial reef. Once this new stadium opened, it went without a corporate name for its first dozen years, an unusual choice for recent American stadiums. Even more unusual was the team’s decision to sell naming rights to the stadium gates. In 2013 the team finally sold naming rights for the stadium itself to the FirstEnergy Corporation, an Akron, Ohio-based power company. Photo "FirstEnergy Stadium 2013.jpg" by Erik Drost is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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