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player ready...Regardless of all the conversation leading up to Sunday afternoon, Gilbert Brown will be an inescapable presence. Two weeks ago at Candlestick Park, he clogged the middle so doggedly that the 49ers gained only 33 yards rushing. If Brown can do the same against Denver, the game is already over.
But the speculation won’t be. On the official Green Bay roster, it says Brown weighs 345 pounds. Fritz Shurmur, the Packers’ defensive coordinator, said Brown tips the scales at “three-hundred mmmm-hmmmm-hmmmm pounds,” covering his mouth and mumbling the last two digits. Denver coach Mike Shanahan said, “They have Brown listed at 345 but to me he looks like 400.”
In any other week it would be tempting to write that Brown is as big as a whale–except that this week, in a fascinating twist of fate, the Packers’ hotel is just down the road from Sea World. Which means the temptation was too irresistible. I contacted the theme park to see if it could be true. But the Sea World folk were just as insulted.
“Of course our whales are bigger,” Sea World spokeswoman Jonna Rae Bartges sniffed.