Giants Lose Injured Brown

New York Giant quarterback Dave Brown will be sidelined for Sunday’s game against Arizona because of a torn muscle in his chest.

Brown suffered the injury in the second quarter of Sunday’s victory over Dallas, An MRI exam Monday disclosed a slight tear to the pectoral muscle, ending Brown’s streak of 44 starts.

Danny Kanell will replace him.

Giant trainer Ronnie Barnes said Brown will be re-evaluated next week.

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Despite missing a possible game-winning field goal for the second consecutive week in Sunday’s loss to Minnesota, Arizona kicker Kevin Butler retained the confidence of Cardinal Coach Vince Tobin.

“I’ve got no plans to make a change at this time,” Tobin said. “I’m disappointed that he missed the field goal, but he also kicked four out of five and kicked a 49-yarder to put us up by nine points five or six minutes earlier, and if we’d have picked up a first down in the last series, he’d have been viewed as a hero.”

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The NFL’s belief that it can’t get a fair hearing in St. Louis over the city’s multimillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit was a recurring theme Monday as attorneys selected a jury. A 12-member jury, eight women and four men, was selected to hear the case. Testimony was set to begin today in the case, expected to last six to eight weeks. The lawsuit was filed because a $29-million relocation fee paid by the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission on behalf of the Rams in 1995 was later waived when the Raiders relocated to Oakland.