OT Ex-Spartan Plaxico Burress gets 2-years
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090922/SPORTS0101/909220400/Ex-Spartan…
Associated Press
New York -- Former Michigan State receiver and Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for possessing a gun at a nightclub.
The former New York Giants star tearfully told his family goodbye as he surrendered to begin his sentence for attempted criminal possession of a weapon after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh.
Damn a brother can't catch a break for shooting himself in the thigh. It's just Sparty being Sparty...
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:35 AM ^
always kinda liked plax, can't believe he is gonna do 2 years
over under he ever comes back in the league
50% he comes back????
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 AM ^
Didn't this happen like 2 months ago?
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:51 AM ^
Pleaded guilty in August.
This is the sentence 2yrs vs. possible 3.5 years min if he went to trial
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:52 AM ^
"over under he ever comes back in the league
50% he comes back????"
He may get a shot, he's done it before!
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:56 AM ^
1. Mario Manningham. Wow. Making New Yorkers forget about Plaxico, in a hurry. And filling a grand tradition of Michigan Wolverines as New York Giants; from Ron Johnson, to Jumbo Elliott to Amani Toomer, and many more in between.
2. "Free Plaxico Burress." From the Wall Street Journal, which is not exactly required reading for the hip-hop professional sports crowd. I loved this column. The treatment of Burress has been hysterical, as in "hysteria," and not as in "funny":
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122835270947177981.html
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 PM ^
I would have liked to have seen the judge say, "Son, the sentencing guidelines say I have to give you two years, but since you shot yourself in the leg I'm just going to give you probation and make you wear this hat that says JACKASS."
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 PM ^
Got slapped on the wrist for killing a guy while driving drunk and stoned. Bizarre.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:01 PM ^
There is a lesson to learn from this...if you shoot yourself in New York, you'd better die, otherwise you'll spend 2 years behind bars. Ouch.