|
|
Â
|
| Quote: |
| The last time Plaxico Burress visited the Giants, he left knowing he was unwanted. This time he was welcomed back, and possibly for good. The controversial receiver and one of the heroes of Super Bowl XLII was a surprise guest at Giants practice on Tuesday in what was believed to be his first visit to his old team since 2011. He spent time chatting with fans and some of his former coaches. At one point he even huddled with receiver Mario Manningham and new director of player development David Tyree, forming a trinity of the franchise’s greatest Super Bowl icons. He also spoke briefly with Tom Coughlin after he watched most of practice from the sidelines in the rain. |
It's actually revisionist to pretend there was legitimate, serious desire for him to come back to the team back then.
We offered him a deal. He didnt accept it. There was no reason to offer him a deal if we didnt want him to say yes. These are the facts. Everything else is intellectual gymnastics
the jets offered him a deal that was good for a guy coming off 2 years in the pro bowl.
Did the Giants make the best offer? No. Was it a joke of an offer that somehow doesn't count. No. The article characterizes it like he was disregarded and he wasn't. There is no revisionist history on MoM's part at all.
It's actually revisionist to pretend there was legitimate, serious desire for him to come back to the team back then.
This. And I wanted him, was disappointed the Giants didn't make more of a push for him.
We offered him a deal. He didnt accept it. There was no reason to offer him a deal if we didnt want him to say yes. These are the facts. Everything else is intellectual gymnastics
Oh please. I don't give a shit whether they wanted him or not, whether they "won" the break-up with him or not.
Pretending Plaxico was ever going to take a deal that would have left him susceptible to not making it through his first year back in the NFL, especially with how he viewed the team as treating him previously, or that this team is above PR token offers (because they're too classy, old school, or whatever nonsense some cling to in their desire for the franchise to be superior to the rest of the league) is what is silly.
the giants were making an offer they surely felt had at least achance
If we're going make declarations about their business practices, it's perfectly reasonable to stand on their reputation.
That's usually how it works, those types of players get make good contracts........you have to show us to get paid.
The Jets, conversely, are mismanaged and their contract offer proved to be a bad decision. Plax didn't really play well in 2011.
He should have been given a sentence of community help for 2 years i.e.
teaching teenagers the fundamentals of playing football in the inner city.
His incarceration cost him part of his career and also cost the taxpayers 100s of thousand of dollars.
The other atrocity was the carrying of the gun back to Jersey by his teammates which broke 2 sate laws and a federal law.
PLAX: Whatever the f**k I want to.
Vet minimum is better than the -0- he gets today.
In a way, I think he screwed himself, because I think he could have lasted an extra year or two here than he did with that trajectory.
No. He's there as a guest. Same as when Pierce or Strahan visit.
He had the Giants, Jets and Pittsburgh ...
Jets - 3 Million - Guaranteed
Giants - 4 Million total - 1 million make team - 0.5 million play all games 2.5 million do good things (incentives) - no guarantee
Pittsburgh- not well known but - approx 7 million - 2 years 1.5 million guaranteed ...
He took the least total money but the most guaranteed money
and had a decent 45 catch season with the Jets ... then off to oblivion with a short Pittsburgh stint ...
I think our show me deal was fine but Plax was also smart to take the most up front guananteed money as he really didn't know where his skills were either ...
Fuck Bloomberg indeed
He's a lowlife piece of shit. Always has been. Always will be. The guy is a liar and a coward.
The driver and a passenger fled on foot when a cop car arrived, but officers nabbed the two other passengers. Cops also recovered at least one handgun that was tossed from the vehicle when the patrol car rolled up.
But Laurenzo filed a civil complaint in September 2006 seeking restitution and accusing Burress of breach of contract because he never showed up to sign autographs and let someone else drive the vehicle. Laurenzo said Burress made no effort to help him get the damaged vehicle back.
After Laurenzo put a lien against Burress' house in Virginia, the sides agreed to an arbitration. A three-lawyer panel awarded more than $22,000 to Laurenzo last year, but Burress appealed.
Burress' lawyer in the vehicle dispute, Matthew T. Croslis, acknowledged Tuesday that Burress is responsible for some damages.
But five years later, Feagles says Burress never did pay up.
Feagles told SI.com that he tried talking to both Burress and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, about it, and neither one of them would honor the commitment Burress made.
“I never got paid for it,” Feagles said. “I asked [Burress] for it. Every time I went to Drew he said, ‘That’s between you and Plax.’ Bottom line, I never got paid. He basically stole my number.”
“After my situation happened, I turned on the TV, and the first words out his mouth was ‘sad and disappointing,’ ” Burress said. “I’m like, forget support—how about some concern? I did just have a bullet in my leg.
“And then I sat in his office, and he pushed back his chair and goes, ‘I’m glad you didn’t kill anybody!’ Man, we’re paid too much to be treated like kids. He doesn’t realize that we’re grown men and actually have kids of our own.”
Burress claims that he is paid too much to be treated like a kid. No, you're just paid too much as all professional athletes are and you have lost perspective of the world we all live in.
What is his reply to criticism?
“What are you doing now? You still mad at your job? You still angry about your life? ’Cause I’m back living my life and enjoying my family while you’re still doing the same thing.”
Malin quoted Burress a price of just under $500 and got the job.
He should've turned it down, Malin now says.
When it came time to pay the bill, Burress disappeared. He didn't respond to phone calls or letters. Malin appealed to one of the star's handlers for help, but still no payment. Malin filed a lawsuit, Burress ignored it.
After a judge ruled against the no-show NFL player, he sent Malin a check for $700.
"I got a note from Plaxico saying, 'Sorry for the inconvenience. Please inform the court that the judgment has been paid,' " Malin said.
"Then the check bounced."
The people seeking payment from the football star run the gamut, from a Pennsylvania homeowners association trying to collect delinquent dues to a Florida woman whose car Burress rear-ended while driving without insurance. Why? He hadn't paid the premium.
The pattern of irresponsible behavior extends beyond unpaid debts, records show.
In his hometown of Virginia Beach, Va., Burress has been fined for reckless driving, noise and public intoxication, and threatened with arrest after he didn't show up in court. Last year in Florida, where he has a home, police twice cited Burress for speeding in the weeks before the car crash, which also earned him a ticket for careless driving.
Van Dusen said he had a falling out with Burress midway through the 2004 season, his last in Pittsburgh before he signed with the Giants as a free agent.
The two men had been partners in staging a series of Monday night parties at a Pittsburgh bar featuring Steelers stars, but at some point, according to the promoter, Burress stopped paying his share of the bills. Finally, Van Dusen presented him with an invoice.
"He was drinking. He was talking to the girls. And he ripped it, balled it up, and threw it across the bar!" Van Dusen said. The two men nearly got in a fight, but Van Dusen said he took Burress to court instead and won a judgment when Burress didn't show up for trial. Van Dusen said he ultimately collected only a portion of his expenses.
Gina Boulougouris Stasinos suffered "series and permanent" injuries to her head, body and limbs, according to the suit, filed in Passaic County Superior Court Nov. 6.
NJ.com couldn't reach Burress or his attorneys for comment.
Stasinos' lawyer, Rochelle Park-based Barry Epstein, said Burress wasn't home at the time of the attack, and that he might have been attending football-related workouts.
"Nevertheless," Epstein said, "it's his dog and he still has a responsibility to properly exercise supervision over it and take proper precautions."
The guy deserved every minute he spent in jail.
Yup. I remember Plax as a guy who played a very large role in some of my happiest moments ever as a fan. Anything else is a very distant second to me.
It's poor Steve Smith who gets screwed. They never show his catch in-between.