I have seen many, many players come & go here in Green Bay. So far I have not seen Gilbert Brown treated any different than any other. If anybody has seen a creditable news source saying anything differently, I'll be glad to change my mind. He will probably be inducted into Packer Hall of Fame in appropriate length of time (probably five years) although I haven't heard anything about this. I have heard nothing about Gilbert Brown not being allowed in the locker room to say goodbye to his fellow team mates. I can't post to that. The only thing, I can say is that Gilbert had a bad shoulder injury and caused him problems doing his job and his age & physically conditioning was against him. I can't recall any big discussion at the time about Packers releasing Gilbert . Pro football is a business , a big business and can be a a cruel one at times. . The eager young players come in every year and try to take the veteran player's job. Also in this era of salary cap, many players who are valuable to their team are released for one reason, high salaries which are unfriendly to the salary cap. Many players will complain about this in public after their release and feel the team should have given them, the big contract they desired. Then the player finds another team if they can, to pay him the big bucks. Green Bay have some players who have been released to the great disappointment of the player because on medical reason. Tim Lewis & Sterling Sharpe were released because the medical staff thought their medical conditions would might cause permanent damage to their spines, if they continued in Pro football. Both did not received this news very well. They wanted to come back and were willing to take chance of permanent paralysis, just to play. But Packers retired them due to their medical reasons. Sterling Sharpe was quite vocal about his displeasure about being released due to medical reasons. Both player sought further medical opinions. They both never played football again. Tim Lewis is an Assistant coach for the New York Giant and is mentioned to have a good chance to become a head coach in the NFL soon. He was a great defensive Cb and very likeable man who had a brief career caused uncureable medical condition. Sterling Sharpe found a career being a sports commentator on network TV and I think his contract wasn't renewed this year. Brian Noble, excellant ex Packer linebacker has spoken many times to his forced retirement because of knee injuries. if allowed he would come back now to play again,Because of his knee he can no longer do some things as simple as play golf. His love of football was so great and sound of 60,000 Packer fans cheering for him when entered Lambeau Field was so addictive, he would have come back and play despite the health risk to him. Such is the mentality of some Pro football players.