One day after saying publicly that he felt sad for former wide receiver Plaxico Burress’ being imprisoned, the New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin told reporters that he was planning to have trip to visit Burress in jail.
Burress is serving a two-year sentence in upstate New York on second-degree weapons chargers and he has had other visitors recently, including Giants quarterbacks coach Mike Sullivan and former teammate defensive end Michael Strahan, who has been with the Giants for fifteen seasons since putting on NFL jersey as a second-round draft pick in 1993.
Burress was accused of second-degree weapons chargers after he accidentally shot himself at a Manhattan nightclub in late 2008 with a gun unlicensed in the state of New York. He is expected to be freed by the spring of 2011 and Coughlin has said that he believes Burress would return to NFL but did not comment on whether the Giants would sign the receiver back by then.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Former Giants WR Burress got interview in prison
While talking to his former coach Bill Cowher in prison, Plaxico Burress showed enough remorse to make the ex-Steelers coach and a current studio analyst for The NFL Today on CBS feel moved. Only if he was not in the prison, he could be present at the Super Bowl by himself instead of through a pregame show.
“He looked me in the eye probably more in this interview than in my whole five years of talking to him (in Pittsburgh),” Cowher said Tuesday during a press conference. “It was pretty heartfelt.”
The former NFL wide receiver, who played his last four seasons in the New York Giants jersey and first five seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, is serving a two-year sentence in New York state after pleading guilty for bringing an unlicensed gun into a New York City nightclub and having it accidentally discharge to wound himself in the leg.
Cowher also told reporters that Burress has had a lot of time to repent for his wrong doings. And fortunate enough to him, he has great family support with his wife. I believe the in-prison experience will make him a more matured man.
“He looked me in the eye probably more in this interview than in my whole five years of talking to him (in Pittsburgh),” Cowher said Tuesday during a press conference. “It was pretty heartfelt.”
The former NFL wide receiver, who played his last four seasons in the New York Giants jersey and first five seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, is serving a two-year sentence in New York state after pleading guilty for bringing an unlicensed gun into a New York City nightclub and having it accidentally discharge to wound himself in the leg.
Cowher also told reporters that Burress has had a lot of time to repent for his wrong doings. And fortunate enough to him, he has great family support with his wife. I believe the in-prison experience will make him a more matured man.
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