ESPN Fantasy Football - League Manager Question

We have a work league that that's been running for a few of years, but League creator recently left for another job. I had him give me LM power so we could keep same league setup and I'll be commish. However, it won't let me delete his team from the owner list. I'm assuming that this is because he is the "creator" of the league. Does anyone know of any way around this? Was hoping to avoid starting a new league and losing past season's info.

thanks in advance...