At the risk of treating a player like “a piece of meat,” I bring you this list of “sandwich” Browns, those who have taken two tours in Cleveland, interrupted by a stint with at least one other team.
Quality standards require sandwichers to have played in at least one regular season game at each stop, so incoming CB Corey Ivy, a 2000 training camp cut, doesn’t make the grade. Nor does Gern Nagler, a 1953 Browns draftee who didn’t take the field in brown and orange until 1960.
Newly-signed David Patten, if he sticks on the ’09 roster (a solid bet, given the current WR depth chart), would be the first player to return after leaving the “new” Browns. (Jereme Perry didn’t quite cut it last summer.)
So best as I can slice it, here’s the all-time Browns sandwich board:
- Paul Warfield
- Ernest Byner
- “Turkey” Joe Jones
- Jim Ninowski
- Jack Gregory
- Mike Baab
- Jerry Ball
- Orlando “Zeus” Brown
- Antonio Langham.
