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Originally Posted by Rain King
This isn't unprecedented in pro sports. The Cleveland Browns full history remains with their current team despite the gap in years and the fact that the actual franchise moved to Baltimore (but did not bring their history with them).
However, it is correct that there is not any way to do this within OOTP itself after the fact, much less a simple way.
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It's because, "technically" the way the NFL did this was, the NFL brokered a compromise between Modell and Cleveland and as part of the compromise model agreed to return the Browns franchise to Cleveland and then NFL granted him a new franchise in Baltimore. The Browns were then deactivated for three years from 1996 to 1998 and then returned in 1999 soooooooooooooo, no the Browns are still the original browns even though all the players went to Baltimore. This was a WHOLE new situation that had never been done before, which is almost kinda like what the OP wants to do.