Plaxico Burress is the Biggest Idiot.

The sorrow I felt for the fact that Plaxico Burress has probably ruined his life worse than Michael Vick's snitches has worn off. This dude is dumb as f*ck, and I hope that reality begins to sink in while he's in prison.

He had helped the New York Giants when the Super Bowl earlier that year.

He had inked a 35 million deal with his team months before.

He's in NY, which carries a MANDATORY sentence of 3 1/2 years for possession of an illegal firearm.

He's walking around with a gun with an expired license from Florida.

He's walking around with a LOADED gun, implying that he could have used it in any other case and endangered his future anyway.

But Plaxico Burress is not the biggest idiot for any of these reasons. It is no secret that Black professional athletes have become targets for crab niggas in a basket. One week before his incident, fellow Giant David Tyree was robbed at gunpoint by his driver. Plaxico has a family to take care of and can’t afford to leave them without a provider... so much for that. He made a decision that he felt was best for him, his family, and his team. I won't fault his dumb*ss for not being smart enough to come up with other options.

Ultimately Plaxico Burress is the biggest idiot because he shot himself with his own gun. And the last person I heard did that was the white boy from 8 Mile.

FYL (08/21/09)

Wow... I'll find the words to be a douchebag at a later date...

Plaxico Burress, the former NY Giants wide receiver who accidentally shot himself in the leg with an illegal gun last November, will be sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to a weapons charge.

By taking the plea, Mr. Burress, who turned 32 last week, avoided what would have been a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison if he had been convicted at trial of the original charge against him, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Instead, Mr. Burress pleaded to an attempted weapons possession charge, allowing for the lighter sentence.

Mr. Burress, who will head to prison when he is officially sentenced on Sept. 22, will be eligible for release after slightly more than 20 months, his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said.

“This is a very sad day because I think a very good man, who is a brilliant athlete, is unfortunately going to spend 20 months in prison,” Mr. Brafman told reporters outside the courthouse. “After an agonizing period of discussion, Plaxico decided that he wanted to put this behind him as soon as possible.”

Mr. Brafman said he hoped his client could rehabilitate his career with the NFL. After the plea, the league said that Mr. Burress would be suspended for the length of his prison term, but that he could sign with a new team when he was released.

But, Mr. Brafman added, football was secondary in Mr. Burress’s mind: his wife is expecting their second child in November.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/nyregion/21burress.html