text: why did the baltimore colts turn into the baltimore ravens and indianapolis get the indianapolis colts?   the owner moved in the cover of the night with the colts. indy offered them a better stadium and a way to make more money. so the moving vans pulled up and were loaded late at night. they kept their name because it was theirs to began with. now with the baltimore ravens they had been the cleveland browns. then owner art modell a few months after promising that he would never move the team announced late in the season that they were moving to baltimore. yeah baltimore just basically pulled the same move of building a better stadium. modell couldn't get a better one in cleveland and was enticed to move to baltimore, who had been without a team since the colts left. the city of cleveland sued to keep the name and history of the "browns." that is why they kept the name and baltimore didn't. as to the cleveland browns the nfl decided to expand again a few years later to add cleveland again. as to why no team was moved in instead, simple commissioner tagliabue was against further moving of teams after cleveland was moved to baltimore. remember that was shortly after both teams moved out of l.a.(raiders to oakland and rams to st. louis) as well ant the oilers left houstan(now the titans.)