Plaxico Burress: April 2009 Archives

If the "Pacman Jones Memorial Award for Moron Excellence" was a real award, then Plaxico Burress would be a lock for it in 2009. Someone needs to tell him that it isn't real, and even if it was, it's nothing that smart people want to have.

Plaxico Burress has been involved with the police at least seven times since August 2008. He's been sued at least nine times since 2000. He has gun-possession charges above his head right now. So a guy like him saying, "I know the sheriff personally," isn't exactly a good thing. All that means is, he's been involved in Plaxico's arrest enough times for them to have a deep conversation.

Yet, those are the words that he chose to throw at the Broward County Deputy Sheriff who stopped him for speeding on March 18th. I guess, in Plaxico's mind, his rapport with the sheriff is going to get that speeding ticket thrown out, because being cool with the sheriff clearly means that he can act an ass whenever he wants to. He doesn't have to obey traffic laws, which is why he's had five such violations in the past month.

I was getting my twitter on with Shaq (seriously if you aren't following me now you are missing out http://www.twitter.com/BlkSportsOnline)when I got the breaking news that Plaxico Burress was released by the New York Giants.

Before I get to my thoughts our good friend Mike Florio at ProFootBallTalk.com has some good information on what led up to Plaxico being released. It appears that the Giants offered Burress a new contract that would have kept him with the team in 2009 and resolved their grievance over bonus money. Burress balked at the deal.

Secondly Mike points out that there is a probably plea deal on the table for Plax, but he is balking at doing any time in jail and is considering taking it to trial.

A couple things are going on here. First off if you didn't know that Plaxico was a bona fide idiot you know now.