It was early November 1995 and I was about to board a flight home from a business trip to Florida. Before boarding the plane, I checked my voice mail. There was a message from a friend.
“Did you hear that the Browns are moving to Baltimore?”
At first I thought the message was a joke. But I knew my friend Dan Novak well, and it wasn’t his style to pull such a prank. So, I listened again, paying close attention to the message’s tenor.
This was NOT a joke!