Last Monday, Tennessee Titans star QB Steve McNair left his suburban Nashville home to trek up I-65 to work out in the Titans' voluntary offseason training program. When he arrived at Titans headquarters, he was greeted by Titans trainer Brad Brown. This would not be considered strange, as McNair and Brown have spent lots of time over the years together nursing the QB's myriad of injuries. However, on this unseasonably cool April day in America's Music City, the coldest breeze of all was blown in old #9's face. Brown, in the absense of GM Floyd Reese, head coach Jeff Fisher, and offensive coordinator Norm Chow, who ironically, were all in Los Angeles working out USC QB Matt Leinart that day, was apparently instructed by Titans owner K.S. (Bud) Adams to bar McNair from the practice facility. The team and McNair have been in negotiations along with the player's agent, Bus Cook, to renegotiate his contract, which has an obcene cap charge of nearly $24 million, due to the numerous restructurings that have been administered over the years.  So, when McNair walked in the door, Brown delivered the former NFL MVP the news that he was no longer allowed to participate in the team's offseason program until his contract situation was worked out or the player was granted his release. This move has sent shockwaves through NFL circles when a guy as productive, consistent , and handled himself with class (sans one DUI incident) as McNair gets treated like this by his front office. Its amazing how people criticize a guy like Terrell Owens for wanting a new contract, when the franchises can throw a team icon like McNair out like yesterday's trash. Something is not equal about this system. Steve McNair has gone out and simply won games for the Titans organization over the last decade. He took a team with Kevin Dyson and Issac Byrd as their starting receivers to within a yard of a Super Bowl title in 1999, and piggybacked a team that started off 1-4 in 2002 to the AFC Championship Game. McNair has never publically moaned about the lack of a supporting cast he was given, while contemporaries like Peyton Manning and Daunte Culpepper were surrounded by talented offensive personnel. Doesn't a guy like that deserve a phone call of a face-to-face meeting to discuss this issue and avoid a trainer having to give him the news? Steve McNair has always just done what he was supposed to do to make the Tennessee Titans a better football team.  I just wish that the Titans owner would show the same amount of pride and respect his soon-to-be former QB did on the field over the years, when dealing with this situation.