 Modell originally paid $625,000 for the land, but sold it to his own Stadium Corp. for more than $3 million.Then, when the stadium was taking losses in 1981, he sold Stadium Corp. itself to the Browns for $6 million.This led to a fight the following year with Bob Gries, whose family had been part of the Browns' ownership group since its founding and had 43% of the team to Modell's 53%.