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 At a time when Plaxico Burress should have been grateful that the Giants did not unceremoniously dump him and shout good riddance to the Big Blue heavens, they went as far as keeping the door open to Giants Stadium. At a time when Eli Manning and several prominent teammates were embracing his return, even after Burress had shot a hole in their Super Bowl repeat dream, Burress turned his back on all of them.
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It turns out Burress was the one who wanted out, in large part because the Giants rightfully acted on that part of his shiny new five-year, $35 million contract that stated there would be financial consequences — in this case, $1 million — for off-the-field shenanigans.
Some guys just don't get it. Plaxico Burress is one of those guys.
Some guys refuse to grow up. Plaxico Burress is one of those guys.
The time for good riddance arrived yesterday, when the Giants finally said: Enough is enough.
The Giants bent over backward — so much so they served as enablers — and hoped against hope that a reformed, rehabilitated Burress might once again catch the winning touchdown pass in the Super Bowl and help them reclaim the Lombardi Trophy. The Giants are different from most organizations in that they care for troubled players (see Lawrence Taylor and Christian Peter) and at the same time no different when players who can help them win are involved.
And Burress dropped the ball. Again.
His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, e-mailed to all NFL teams back in February that his client was available via trade. That was just the latest in a long line of incidents illustrating that it never dawned on Burress that it means something to play for the Giants — much less appreciate their support, much less conduct himself in a professional manner.
He decided he could be above the Law of Tom Coughlin because he was the indispensable go-to guy without whom the Giants wouldn't have so much as sniffed a Super Bowl. He wasn't scared straight by his mindless actions that fateful November night inside the Latin Quarter, when, thankfully, he didn't kill himself or anyone else. When he looked in the mirror, he saw Plaxico Burress, Super Bowl hero. He didn't have the decency to return phone calls from the club, or text messages.
Now Burress is no longer above the Law of Tom Coughlin, and soon he likely will find out that he is not above the law as stated by Mayor Bloomberg, even with his celebrity lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, serving as his new quarterback. And then he will find out that he is not above the law of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell either.
If GM Jerry Reese could have found a trade market for a troubled wide receiver who will turn 32 in August, you bet he would have made the move.
Burress made his bed. Now he gets to lie in it.
Author:Fox Sports
Author's Website:http://www.foxsports.com
Added: April 4, 2009
