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| 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. |
Like you would have given so much of a shit if the felon weren't a player on your favorite football team...
He's a lowlife piece of shit. Always has been. Always will be. The guy is a liar and a coward.
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Burress’ Chevy Avalanche was seized by cops on the morning of Aug. 20, 2005, after men inside the pickup fired shots when it got stuck behind a garbage truck in The Bronx.
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.
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The car dealer, Frederick Laurenzo, said he allowed Burress to borrow the vehicle, valued at more than $36,000, in exchange for Burress agreeing to sign autographs at promotional events.
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.
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When Plaxico Burress signed with the Giants in 2005, he wanted the No. 17 jersey worn by punter Jeff Feagles. So Burress and Feagles struck a deal: Burress would get No. 17 in exchange for paying to have some work done on Feagles’ house.
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.”
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Burress had this to say to Men's Journal about Coughlin:
“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.”
Damn, that was a lot of work you put into that post...Yeah, his mouth after he left was what i remembered. I may be wrong but did he not also talk a bunch a shit prior to playing us while with the Jets?
Again, FUCK Bloomberg..
How Plax should have been punished is beside the point..
You can, as an important representative of a city, come on and slam the stupidity of the act, cite the law of such act and then declare that he deserves, like anyone else, due process...And you leave it at that..I remember being appalled at his position, his "throw the key away" demeanor...And yes, I was appalled with the Plax situation, there was no excuse for such stupidity, even if he was supposedly being cautious after the Steve Smith gunpoint incident the week before..No excuse..Bloomberg should have risen above it, at least for a little while until he knew more..
Plaxico goes into that bar with a gun knowing how anal NY is about guns (not Arizona), takes it out and shoots himself (fortunately not someone else) …
Bloomburg does what any self-respecting politician will do - seize the opportunity to pile-on.
Sure, Plaxico is feeing regretful about spoiling the Giants chance to go to another Super Bowl. But what is a lot more shameful, and what nobody around here wants to remember - how the whole team QUIT (except for Brandon Jacobs) against the Eagles in the subsequent play-off game. THAT is what's totally shameful.
From the NY Daily News (Dec. 4, 2008)....
Even as team execs tried to distance themselves from the coverup of early Saturday's nightclub shooting, investigators turned up the pressure by revealing they will subpoena cell phone records from Burress and teammate Antonio Pierce.
The Giants acknowledged for the first time that Pierce - who was with a bleeding Burress at the Latin Quarter - called Ronnie Barnes, the team's vice president of medical services, moments after his teammate's illegal gun accidentally went off around 1:50 a.m.
Barnes told Pierce to rush Burress to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center and the receiver arrived at its emergency room just after 2 a.m., the Giants said in a vague, carefully worded statement.
The Giants said Barnes wanted Burress near the Hospital for Special Surgery, which is next door to New York-Presbyterian.
The Giants said Dr. Mark Drakos, an orthopedic fellow at HSS who has provided "support" for the team "happened to be" on call that night. He, in turn, called Barnes "to make certain he was aware of the situation."
The team said Drakos examined Burress and made recommendations. Emergency room Dr. Josyann Abisaab, who - even though she was not scheduled to work - showed up at the hospital minutes after the receiver. She has since been suspended for not reporting the gunshot wound to the police, as is required by law. Sources said cops are anxious to speak to Drakos.
Giants officials have said they notified NFL security about the shooting sometime after 10 a.m. and that the league told police.
Mayor Bloomberg has contradicted that, saying the NYPD did not learn about the shooting until seeing TV reports that afternoon.
"The Giants should have picked up the phone right away as good corporate citizens," an irate Bloomberg said Monday.
Investigators believe Abisaab was called to the hospital - possibly by the Giants brass - and instructed to handle the star player "gently" since he was "frantic," law enforcement sources said.
The Giants denied contacting the doctor or having asked her to keep the shooting from police, saying Barnes only briefly spoke with Abisaab in the emergency room.
"The Giants have not had any relationship with Dr. Abisaab, and we have no knowledge of any of our players being treated by Dr. Abisaab before Saturday morning," the team's statement read.
Detectives also want to interview Pierce, who practiced Wednesday and will play against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
Cops have impounded Pierce's SUV. The linebacker - who is considered the captain of Big Blue's defense - is planning to meet with investigators by early next week, his lawyer said.