By Stampeders.com staff

Precisely speaking, Brandon Browner is already a member of a very exclusive club.

Defensive back standout for the Stampeders from 2007-10 and now a member of the New England Patriots, Browner won a Grey Cup ring in 2008 and on Sunday he’ll look to add a Super Bowl ring to his jewellery collection.

Browner already owns a Super Bowl ring, but that one comes with an asterisk of sorts as he was watching last year’s championship game on TV in his Los Angeles-area home while the Seattle Seahawks – Browner’s employers at the time – demolished the Denver Broncos at the Meadowlands in New Jersey.

Browner missed the Seahawks’ playoff run while serving a suspension for violating the National Football League’s drug policy. The Seahawks chose to present him with a championship ring anyway.

“I was blessed and fortunate,” Browner told the Boston Herald earlier this week. “I was suspended over there and I was still able to get a ring. That was a decision by the coach and the owner to give me that. They didn’t have to.”

Now, a year later, Browner has a chance to make an on-field contribution to a Super Bowl victory and – wouldn’t you know it? – he’s facing his former club.

“It’s crazy, man,” Browner said. “I really had that vision when I signed (with New England). Hopefully, we’d meet up with my old boys and it happened to work out that way.”

Another player with both a Grey Cup ring and Super Bowl ring in his possession – or at least he’ll have the Grey Cup ring when the finger-baubles celebrating the 2014 CFL champions are made – is current Stampeders offensive lineman Dan Federkeil.

Federkeil was inactive for the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLI in 2007 but he took part in the pre-game warm-up and had dressed for two regular-season games and one playoff contest earlier in the season.

Fast-forward to 2014 and you have Federkeil shining as a starter for the Stamps’ top-notch offensive line as Calgary claimed a Grey Cup victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

“A Super Bowl ring is nice to have, not what a lot of people have, but definitely for me the Grey Cup win means more,” Federkeil said the day after the Stamps’ championship-game win at BC Place. “A lot of guys on that Indy team had been together a long time. I had just got there.
“This one, I definitely put in a lot more time on the field with this team and had a lot of confidence in my teammates.”

There are three other players with Stamps ties who have pulled the Grey Cup-Super Bowl double.

Harald Hasselbach was part of the Calgary team that ended the Stamps’ 21-year Grey Cup drought in 1992. He went on to win a pair of Super Bowl rings as a member of the Denver Broncos.

Halifax native Tyrone Williams was drafted by the Stampeders in 1992 but he decided to first try his luck south of the border. He was on the Dallas practice roster when the Cowboys beat Buffalo in Super Bowl XXVII following the 1992 season.

Williams joined the Stamps in 1995 and was traded to Toronto in 1996, winning the Grey Cup with the Argos later that season. Not to worry, that trade worked out pretty well for Calgary, too – the Stamps acquired the rights to negotiation-list player Dave Dickenson from the Argos.

Offensive lineman Bobby Singh played with Calgary in 2002-03 and again in 2007 but his championships came elsewhere. He picked up a Super Bowl ring as a practice-roster player for the St. Louis Rams in 1999 and a Grey Cup ring as a member of the BC Lions in 2006.

Here are the other members of the exclusive club of Grey Cup and Super Bowl champions:

Terry Greer: The all-star receiver was the first man to own rings from championships on both sides of the border. Greer won a Grey Cup with the Toronto Argonauts in 1983 and later in the same decade was part of two Super Bowl-winning teams in San Francisco

Marvin Thomas: The defensive lineman was on the Broncos’ practice roster when Denver won the Super Bowl following the 1998 season and was part of the BC Lions club that won the 2000 Grey Cup at McMahon Stadium

Andre Rison: The receiver scored the opening touchdown in the Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl XXXI win over New England and was a member of the Argos when Toronto won the Grey Cup in 2004, although Rison did not play in the championship game

O.J. Brigance: The linebacker earns a special place on this list as his championships in two different leagues happened while he was representing the same city. In 1995, during the CFL’s U.S. expansion era, Brigance was with the Baltimore Stallions, the only American team to ever win the Grey Cup. A little more than five years later, Brigance was part of the Baltimore Ravens’ Super Bowl-championship team

Alvin Walton: A teammate of Brigance on the 1995 Grey Cup-champion Stallions, the defensive back had previously won two Super Bowl rings as a member of the Washington Redskins