He said the service typified all the things his son loved about Brown.

According to team officials, they will not speak about Brown again.

The good thing about Brown is that he does not scare easily.

In a couple of months people will start whining about Brown, how he got us into his mess.

It is also easy to see why it's impossible to draw any fair conclusion about Brown when so many variables are against him.

"We're still talking to a couple of other teams about Brown, and two more teams called today that we hadn't heard from before."

Their basic instinct about Brown was correct, but they never acted on it properly.

Of course, the Giants may feel cozy about Brown, too.

"I just didn't want it to affect my players, we got to play games," he said of the speculation about Brown.

And where there would be more speculation, more rumors about Brown.