Plaxico Burress was interviewed by Bill Cowher, his former coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers, on the CBS program “Super Bowl Today.” Burress expressed how sorry he was for all the damage he caused the New York Giants in the 2008 NFL season.
“I personally handwrote (Giants president and CEO) John Mara a letter and (vice president) Steve Tisch a letter, I told them how sorry I was bringing all this bad publicity to such a stand-up organization,” Burress said. “It made me take a step back and (think), ‘Wow.’ You can’t stress it enough — your choices affect so many people.”
Buress told Cowher that he works out four times a week in jail and spoke about missing his children. He said he is working on becoming a better man.
“I want to be a better brother, friend and then a football player,” Burress said.
Burress accidentally shot himself in the right thigh with his Glock pistol while in a New York City nightclub. He had no licence to carry the handgun (which had an expired licence from Florida) in New York. He was later sentenced to two years in prison for two felonies.
[via nj.com]
In prison for a victim-less crime that goes against the Constitution, this guy is a genuine political prisoner who should have never been sent to jail for this non-crime in the first place. Only in New York where the odds are that the criminal will have a gun and the law-abiding citizen won’t. Why do they put up with such non-sense there?
I saw the interview and thought about what would be different if this would have happened in almost any other state or city in the U.S. He wouldn’t be in prison, for there would have been no crime committed. We’d have read about his careless self-imposed injury in the papers and Burress would probably still have an NFL career and that would have been that.
If that would have been me (trust me, with what I would have to say) it would NEVER make the evening news much less the Superbowl; and upon my release I would make this my life’s calling to change such idiotic and obviously un-Constitutional gun laws.
Contrite my ass and that’s exactly where I’d tell New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and anyone else who doesn’t like guns to start kissing. Hopefully, Burress will retain the services of an excellent lawyer who will be able to right such an obvious wrong.
Free Plaxico Burress Now!