- 1993
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Proposed Baltimore Bomber Team
Baltimore was not awarded an expansion team, passed up in favor of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. The Bombers proposal was believed to be near the bottom of the list of contenders, and league commissioner Paul Tagliabue opposed any expansion to Baltimore, saying “some towns are football towns and some towns are museum towns. I guess Baltimore is a ...
History of the Bombers
The Baltimore Bombers were a proposed National Football League expansion team located in Baltimore, Maryland. When the NFL was awarding expansion teams to two cities in 1993, Baltimore was among the cities vying for a team; the city had lost its previous team, the Colts, in a middle-of-the-night relocation nine years prior.
Proposed
1993
City
Baltimore
League History
Team History
/ Baltimore Bombers
Nickname
Bombers - The potential owners of the team had settled on the "Baltimore Bombers" as the team's nickname in honor of the B-26 Marauder, a World War II bomber designed by the Glenn L. Martin Company, and produced in Baltimore. Leonard “Boogie” Weinglass, founder of the retailer Merry-Go-Round.
Championship
Stadium
Owner
Malcolm Glazer
Retired Number
*Blue is this team’s history