Five Celebrity Updates: Plaxico Burress

Plaxico Burress is the best receiver on the Super Bowl Champion NY Giants. His career peaked when he caught the game-winning touchdown in last years Championship game.

Sense then, Burress has caused nothing but duress.

This season he has already been fined $204,000 for his behavior on and off the field. Among his erratic antics was a fine for verbally abusing an official. He was suspended an entire game for missing practice and not being reachable or telling anyone in advance. He then skipped medical treatment and was benched for a first quarter of another game.
While all of this behavior has led some fans to call for his departure, his latest debauchery easily tops them all. Last night Burress shot himself in the leg. He spent the night in a Manhattan hospital with his self-inflicted gun-shot wound.

If back to back Super Bowls isn’t enough motivation for Burress to clean up his lifestyle, getting married and having children should have been. Burress should be suspended from the NFL for the remainder of the season. He represents everything that is wrong with professional sports. His athletic ability allows him to live by a different moral standard, and he takes advantage at every opportunity. Playing professional sports should be a privilege, and to me, Burress has lost his.