The Plaxico Burress gun incident was one of the strangest things to happen in an NFL offseason. Now, we finally will have closure and Burress was sentenced to two years in prison at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, New York.
We get more of this story from ESPN
One-time Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for violating New York's stringent gun laws and was immediately taken into custody following his hearing.
Burress agreed to the plea deal last month and pleaded guilty to a lesser firearms charge. The charges stemmed from an incident late last fall, in which Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub.
Former Giants receiver Plaxico Burress carried his son Elijah into court on Tuesday, and then told him goodbye.
He is expected to serve about 20 months with credit for good behavior, followed by two years of probation
In some way, I feel sorry for Plaxico Burress since the only person that he hurt was himself. While other NFL offenders such as Donte Stallworth, Adam Jones, and Tank Johnson get off with lower sentences for comparable or worse crimes. The logic just does not seem to add up here. However, this is New York City. The beacon of crime, the location set for three different "Law and Order's," so it is expected to have one of the toughest gun laws in the nation. Plaxico is just the unfortunate individual who gets stuck in the crosshairs.
Although, I do not condone what Plaxico did, two years is a very long time and he will have to dramatically shift his multimillion dollar lifestyle to a life of sleeping among other convicted felons. Hopefully, he will come bearing gifts, so he will be left alone to think about that night where he went from an elite NFL wide receiver who was a Super Bowl hero to a guy on the idiot-burn for most radio talk shows.
In the end, life and luck is a fickle mistress in which it can turn at anytime and in Plaxico Burress's life, it came up snake eyes.
