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We all remember kosar mack brown sipe byner newsome corner brothers etc.

But who are some forgotten Brown greats or people that helped browns in good years of last 40 years that never get talked about?
My list
Felix Wright
Dave Logan
Antonio Langham (solid 94 playoff year)
Mike Johnson
Rob Burnett
David Grayson
Who's some of yours?

Ben Gay

Chris Rockins
Thane Gash
Boyce Green
Pio Sagapuletele
Tim Manoa
Sam Clancy
Dave Logan
Big Daddy Carl Hairston

Just to name a few.

Dino Hall
Cody Reisen
Mike Baab
Dick Ambrose (Bam Bam)
Chris Rockins (He had that "take someone's head off" mentality)
Mike and Greg Pruitt
Tony Jones
Chip Banks
Ricky Feacher
Lyle Alzado
Michael Dean Perry
Mike Johnson
Ron Bolton
Eddie Johnson
Eric Turner
Don Rogers
Bubba Bake
Thane Gash (GREAT name for a defensive player)
Dan Fike
Bob Golic
Clarence Scott
Tom Darder

Nu'u Fa'aola

Dixon and Minnifield. Most older fans from other teams in our division really hated those two.

As for one never talked about, Lyle Alzado.

I always liked Dave Wohlabaugh.

I was also a fan of Shaun O'Hara. He was nothing special, but he was very consistant.

j/c

When they played, I always got a kick out of having a Robert E. and a Robert L. Jackson.

I actually have Thane Gash's autograph but I don't remember how or why.

Andra Davis
Leigh Bodden
McCutcheon
Kenard Lang
Orpheus Roye
Just listing some unsung heroes for the team since '99 that always worked their tail and were great with fans.

a couple more I forgot to mention
Herman Fontenot
Cleo Miller
Kevin Johnson (solid reciever)

I'm going to limit my list to forgotten players I've actually seen
contribute:

Cleo Miller
Herman Fontenot
Rickey Feacher
Robert L. Jackson
Jack Gregory
Eddie Johnson
Clarence Scott

Daven "Ball Hawk" Holly

Stacey Hairston...don't remember a thing about him as a player for the Browns, but he was a bowling instructor at Ohio Northern when I was a student there.

Hairston was a safety in '94 or '95...

I don't know...I remember players from the '90s more than the '80s.

90-91--(First grade)...Ben Jefferson, Ralph Tamm, Kevin Robbins. Chris Pike because he was tall. Fulwood and Gainer at RB...Hoard, Mack, the usual. I remember the 58-14 game distinctly for two reasons:
1) Metcalf had a 101-yard KO return for a TD.
2) I had never seen an NFL team score that many points. Ever.

91-92--(Second grade)...I had to keep a journal for two months and had entries like the "Browns lost to the Oilers" and even remembered the scores.
Randy Baldwin (RB), Ron Wolfley (FB) and of course, Randy Hilliard...
Harlan Barnett at FS and Cedric Figaro and David Brandon, with his INT return.. On the '91 video, Belichick talks about Hilliard (FS) as a 160-pound "Lawrence Taylor."
Vince Newsome, which confused me, because I thought he was related to Ozzie. A great game, even though we lost, was where we were only down 21-17 to Washington, who was like 14-2 that year..but we wound up losing 42-17.

92-93 (third grade)--I don't know why or how I remember these things. I do remember Tomczak. Metcalf, Hoard, Vardell. I remember Caldwell. Maybe that was a year later. It was a boring year even though the team was better. They were 7-6 and lost their last 3 games. Kosar was in and out a lot.

93-94 (fourth grade)--I remember Reggie Rutland, but he was Najee, and I didn't know he was named Reggie until years later. We got him to man-cover Jerry Rice, which he did that year...Remember, Rutland was on a Vikings team that beat the 49ers a half-decade earlier in the playoffs. They cut Kosar. Fail. I remember Philcox, and old farts like Walls, Griffin. But I loved Pepper and I liked Stevon Moore, a strong, good safety. BB loved using 3-safety looks a lot.

94-95 (fifth grade)--I remember us beating the Cowboys and everyone in church talking about it. (At the time, we had 7:30 p.m. Mass at St. Anselm on Sat. nights!). obscurities: Frank Hartley, Brian Kinchen, Patrick Rowe, Footman, Johnson, etc. on the DL...big, fast DL...Rush and Crush, of course. In hindsight, I really see how the Browns would later resemble the Pats--a "Coating" of awesomeness in a TE like Hartley, big, physical, reliable...a massive OL and running game, a cog-QB (Vinny, Simms, Brady) and solid D and special teams.
1994 Browns=1994-1996 Patriots...not on the same level, but on the same theory.

95-96...I don't remember much except feeling pissed the Browns were moving. I do remember Zeier and losing to Jacksonville...

I have more fondness for the BB era now, even though we lost more than we did in the '80s, because I understand what BB was trying to do (even though it didn't get done) and appreciate it more than the better '80s teams that came up short. Five years ago, I would have rather had the '80s teams...

The '90s teams played in a tougher, faster era, IMO.

Mike Pucillo!

Wednesday afternoon I saw Kevin Culbert at a county-wide special education meeting and got his autograph. He was surprised that anyone would know about his short stint as a Browns try-out player.

He doesn't appear big enough to play LB in the NFL even though he was a tackling machine at Frostburg.

-jc-

Didn't see Webster Slaughter mentioned.

Gerald McNeil- a.k.a. The Ice Cube

Derek Frost

Gloster Richardson
Jubilee Dunbar
Fair Hooker

Yessir. I think they might even have all played together at one point. Announcers loved our WR's names.

Correction - Fair Hooker and Gloster Richardson played together in 72 & 73. The funny thing is that Fair Hooker was traded to New Orleans for Jubilee Dunbar in 1974.

Al Gross
Glenn Young
Henry Bradley
Dick Ambrose
Brian Washington
Bubba Baker
Dave Puzzoli
Sam Clancy
Bob Golic

I met Puzzuoli a few years later, awesome person.

Ricky Feacher
Clinton Burrell
Tom Cousineau
Chip Banks
Jerry Sherk
Mike St. Clair

Mike Junkin

Eric Zeier

The original dawgtalkers 'He's gonna be awesome" draftee...Nick Speegle.

ugh

Or what about Joaquin Gonzalez? I remember every year getting the Madden game and thinking "first things first...release Gonzalez"

C'mon, most of these names aren't forgotten...they're just old!

Mason Unck!

Michael Jackson was a good WR .

Pepper Johnson and Ball were good but that was awhile ago, a long while ago.

ha. Ben Gay was my first thought.

I wish it was easier to find NFL footage, anyone know where I can find Ben Gay clips?

Earl Little piggy backing down field was also memorable in a more embarrassing way.

Remember that hit Brant Boyer layed out against New Orleans?