Browns Legends
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Zombo brought up the Browns Legends in his trivia question. Here is the list of those persons that are in that group, fyi:
Browns Legends
Hall of Fame Members (inducted in 2001)
Jim Brown - Fullback
Len Ford - Defensive End
Frank Gatski - Center
Otto Graham - Quarterback
Lou Groza - Offensive Tackle/Kicker
Leroy Kelly - Running Back
Dante Lavelli- End
Mike McCormack - Tackle
Bobby Mitchell - Wide Receiver/Halfback
Marion Motley - Fullback
Ozzie Newsome - Tight End
Paul Warfield - Wide Receiver
Bill Willis - Middle Guard
Hall of Fame Members (inducted in 2003)
Joe DeLamielleure - Guard
Hall of Fame Members (inducted in 2007)
Gene Hickerson - Guard
Class of 2001
Ray Renfro - Wide Receiver
Greg Pruitt - Running Back
Gene Hickerson - Guard
Bernie Kosar - Quarterback
Michael Dean Perry - Defensive Tackle
Class of 2002
Mac Speedie - Wide Receiver
Brian Sipe - Quarterback
Clay Matthews - Linebacker
Class of 2003
Bob Gain - Defensive Tackle
Dick Schafrath - Offensive Tackle
Hanford Dixon - Cornerback
Class of 2004
Tommy James - Defensive Back
Dub Jones - Wide Receiver
Gary Collins - Wide Receiver/ Punter
Mike Pruitt - Running Back
Class of 2005
Jim Ray Smith - Guard
Frank Ryan - Quarterback
Jerry Sherk - Defensive Tackle
Frank Minnifield - Cornerback
Class of 2006
Walt Michaels - Linebacker
Jim Houston - Defensive End/ Linebacker
Doug Dieken - Offensive Tackle
Earnest Byner - Running Back
Class of 2007
Horace Gillom - Punter/Wide Receiver
Bill Glass - Defensive End
Don Cockroft - Kicker/Punter
Kevin Mack - Running Back
Class of 2008
Warren Lahr - Defensive Back
Paul Wiggin - Defensive End
Walter Johnson - Defensive Tackle
Eric Metcalf - Running Back
Class of 2010
John Wooten - Offensive Line
Cody Risien - Offensive Tackle
Class of 2011
Vince Costello - Linebacker
Tom DeLeone - Center
Class of 2012
Clarence Scott – Defensive Back
Ernie Green – Running Back
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The question: Who is not on this list who should be on it? I will give this some thought myself.
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A few possibles that I have thought of:
Tony Adamle
Abe Gibron 4 time Pro Bowler for Browns
Erich Barnes
Eric Turner
Webster Slaughter
Chip Banks
Thom Darden
Bernie Parish
Dick Modzewlewski
Bill Nelsen
Dave Logan
Reggie Rucker
Brian Brennan
Eddie Johnson
Mike Johnson
Any others?
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The question: Who is not on this list who should be on it? I will give this some thought myself.
The question: Who is not on this list who should be on it? I will give this some thought myself.
Looks like we are missing some linebackers: Dick Ambrose, Chip Banks, Mike Johnson ...
Eric Turner is another guy ...
Zombo
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A few possibles that I have thought of:
Tony Adamle
Abe Gibron 4 time Pro Bowler for Browns
Erich Barnes
Eric Turner
Webster Slaughter
Chip Banks
Thom Darden
Bernie Parish
Dick Modzewlewski
Bill Nelsen
Dave Logan
Reggie Rucker
Brian Brennan
Eddie Johnson
Mike Johnson
Any others?
A few possibles that I have thought of:
Tony Adamle
Abe Gibron 4 time Pro Bowler for Browns
Erich Barnes
Eric Turner
Webster Slaughter
Chip Banks
Thom Darden
Bernie Parish
Dick Modzewlewski
Bill Nelsen
Dave Logan
Reggie Rucker
Brian Brennan
Eddie Johnson
Mike Johnson
Any others?
Good list. If I were going to add two next year, I'd say Web Slaughter and Mike Johnson.
I think most of the guys you named will make it...
Zombo
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When there time comes, surely JT, Dawson and Cribbs will make it.
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A few possibles that I have thought of:
Tony Adamle
Abe Gibron 4 time Pro Bowler for Browns
Erich Barnes
Eric Turner
Webster Slaughter
Chip Banks
Thom Darden
Bernie Parish
Dick Modzewlewski
Bill Nelsen
Dave Logan
Reggie Rucker
Brian Brennan
Eddie Johnson
Mike Johnson
Any others?
A few possibles that I have thought of:
Tony Adamle
Abe Gibron 4 time Pro Bowler for Browns
Erich Barnes
Eric Turner
Webster Slaughter
Chip Banks
Thom Darden
Bernie Parish
Dick Modzewlewski
Bill Nelsen
Dave Logan
Reggie Rucker
Brian Brennan
Eddie Johnson
Mike Johnson
Any others?
I was going to say, we are starting to run out of guys....of that list Darden is a no brainer IMO....and maybe Turner.
We did this too fast.....maybe a Cleveland thing, the R&R HOF is running out of worthy bands. Bernie as an example should be getting in maybe now, or just a season or two ago.....not 12-13 years ago.
Larry Benz had a 107 yard int return.....maybe we should induct him.
How about Ken Coleman or Gib Shanley....those guys are Browns to me.
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A few possibles that I have thought of:
Tony Adamle
Abe Gibron 4 time Pro Bowler for Browns
Erich Barnes
Eric Turner
Webster Slaughter
Chip Banks
Thom Darden
Bernie Parish
Dick Modzewlewski
Bill Nelsen
Dave Logan
Reggie Rucker
Brian Brennan
Eddie Johnson
Mike Johnson
Any others?
I was going to say, we are starting to run out of guys....of that list Darden is a no brainer IMO....and maybe Turner.
We did this too fast.....maybe a Cleveland thing, the R&R HOF is running out of worthy bands. Bernie as an example should be getting in maybe now, or just a season or two ago.....not 12-13 years ago.
Larry Benz had a 107 yard int return.....maybe we should induct him.
How about Ken Coleman or Gib Shanley....those guys are Browns to me.
I was going to say, we are starting to run out of guys....of that list Darden is a no brainer IMO....and maybe Turner.
We did this too fast.....maybe a Cleveland thing, the R&R HOF is running out of worthy bands. Bernie as an example should be getting in maybe now, or just a season or two ago.....not 12-13 years ago.
Larry Benz had a 107 yard int return.....maybe we should induct him.
How about Ken Coleman or Gib Shanley....those guys are Browns to me.
I'll go one further and say Nev Chandler,,,He was IMO the best of the best browns play by play radio announcers.
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I was going to say, we are starting to run out of guys....of that list Darden is a no brainer IMO....and maybe Turner.
We did this too fast.....maybe a Cleveland thing, the R&R HOF is running out of worthy bands. Bernie as an example should be getting in maybe now, or just a season or two ago.....not 12-13 years ago.
Larry Benz had a 107 yard int return.....maybe we should induct him.
How about Ken Coleman or Gib Shanley....those guys are Browns to me.
I'll go one further and say Nev Chandler,,,He was IMO the best of the best browns play by play radio announcers.
I'll go one further and say Nev Chandler,,,He was IMO the best of the best browns play by play radio announcers.
Maybe because you didn't hear or remember the others, but Nev as well for sure.
None the less, we are running out of candidates for this ring. The more we add, the less honorable it gets. Since our return Joe Thomas and Phil Dawson are in,,,,,,Cribbs probably, but at the rate we are going Darren Chevrinni might make it.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn. -
Ill throw one out to think about.
What do you think of Matt Bahr?
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Otto Graham or Jim Brown?
http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2013/02/02/greatest-cleveland-browns-player-of-all-time/
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I was reading an interesting article on RantSports today that debated weather or not Jim Brown or Otto Graham was the best Browns player ever.
*Here is the link below*
http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2013/02/02/greatest-cleveland-browns-player-of-all-time/
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I'll go one further and say Nev Chandler,,,He was IMO the best of the best browns play by play radio announcers.
Maybe because you didn't hear or remember the others, but Nev as well for sure.
None the less, we are running out of candidates for this ring. The more we add, the less honorable it gets. Since our return Joe Thomas and Phil Dawson are in,,,,,,Cribbs probably, but at the rate we are going Darren Chevrinni might make it.
Maybe because you didn't hear or remember the others, but Nev as well for sure.
None the less, we are running out of candidates for this ring. The more we add, the less honorable it gets. Since our return Joe Thomas and Phil Dawson are in,,,,,,Cribbs probably, but at the rate we are going Darren Chevrinni might make it.
The reason we are running out of candidates is because the Browns simply haven't had a sufficient supply of outstanding players in the last 25 years or so.
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Maybe because you didn't hear or remember the others, but Nev as well for sure.
None the less, we are running out of candidates for this ring. The more we add, the less honorable it gets. Since our return Joe Thomas and Phil Dawson are in,,,,,,Cribbs probably, but at the rate we are going Darren Chevrinni might make it.
The reason we are running out of candidates is because the Browns simply haven't had a sufficient supply of outstanding players in the last 25 years or so.
The reason we are running out of candidates is because the Browns simply haven't had a sufficient supply of outstanding players in the last 25 years or so.
True on the lack of fresh supply, but I don't think we are "running out" of legends just yet.
I think we can all agree on Thomas, Cribbs and Dawson from the new era, and I think Alex Mack, DQ Jackson and Joe Haden are headed in that direction.
and then as mentioned:
Tony Adamle
Abe Gibron
Erich Barnes
Eric Turner
Webster Slaughter
Chip Banks
Thom Darden
Bernie Parish
Dick Modzewlewski
Bill Nelson
Dick Ambrose
Dave Logan
Reggie Rucker
Brian Brennan
Eddie Johnson
Mike Johnson
Matt Bahr
There's 25 guys. If 20 of them make it, that's 10 years of two guys per year. Eventually every team's is going to slow down because you don't normally add two legends per year, but we were lucky to have so many in the early years.
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I don't know. Maybe we just do it to create some excitement. The Cowboys have 20 and the Packers have 21 in their's. At the rate we are going we'll have the stadium filled with names.
We haven't won a championship in what, 48 years? We couldn't have had that many good plays in that time frame.
JMO
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These are Browns Legends not Ring of Honor
As good as Chip Banks was there is noway he should be considered a Browns Legend
I'll throw in Big Daddy Carl Hairston into the list
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Just curious: Who makes the decision about who goes into the Browns Legends, and is there any criteria other than "once played for the Browns"? Is there a requisite number of years they must have played here? Is there a certain percentage of their careers they must have played here? Several Hall of Famers had cups of coffee with the Browns...but I don't think any of them are in (Guys like Len Dawson/Henry Jordan/Willie Davis/Doug Atkins/Tommy McDonald etc.)
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I'll go one further and say Nev Chandler,,,He was IMO the best of the best browns play by play radio announcers.
Maybe because you didn't hear or remember the others, but Nev as well for sure.
None the less, we are running out of candidates for this ring. The more we add, the less honorable it gets. Since our return Joe Thomas and Phil Dawson are in,,,,,,Cribbs probably, but at the rate we are going Darren Chevrinni might make it.
Maybe because you didn't hear or remember the others, but Nev as well for sure.
None the less, we are running out of candidates for this ring. The more we add, the less honorable it gets. Since our return Joe Thomas and Phil Dawson are in,,,,,,Cribbs probably, but at the rate we are going Darren Chevrinni might make it.
I heard Gib Shanley and IMO...he was boring and he stunk.
Nickers...."There are no old running QB's in the NFL "~Sam Rutigliano~ -
Just curious: Who makes the decision about who goes into the Browns Legends, and is there any criteria other than "once played for the Browns"? Is there a requisite number of years they must have played here? Is there a certain percentage of their careers they must have played here? Several Hall of Famers had cups of coffee with the Browns...but I don't think any of them are in (Guys like Len Dawson/Henry Jordan/Willie Davis/Doug Atkins/Tommy McDonald etc.)
Just curious: Who makes the decision about who goes into the Browns Legends, and is there any criteria other than "once played for the Browns"? Is there a requisite number of years they must have played here? Is there a certain percentage of their careers they must have played here? Several Hall of Famers had cups of coffee with the Browns...but I don't think any of them are in (Guys like Len Dawson/Henry Jordan/Willie Davis/Doug Atkins/Tommy McDonald etc.)
Apparently there is a "Selection Panel".
http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2012/09/23/sports/nh6017676.txt
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