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Nothing makes me crazier than a moron who throws his life away. Nothing. I played football when I was younger. I enjoyed the game. I like to think I have a pretty good understanding of the game...

Plaxico Burress: Today's Stupidest Person in The World

by Sean Crowe (Senior Writer)

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Opinion

November 29, 2008


Nothing makes me crazier than a moron who throws his life away. Nothing.

I played football when I was younger. I enjoyed the game. I like to think I have a pretty good understanding of the game. I worked hard at it, but in the end a 5-foot-8 kid who ran a 6 second 40-yard-dash just wasn’t going to make it in the game of football no matter how hard he tried.

NFL history is littered with guys who did have that God given talent but worked their asses off to throw it all away.

Adam “Pacman” Jones is a perfect example. He has as much talent as anyone. He’s fast, he’s a natural with the ball in his hands especially in space, and he knows how to make things happen on the football field.

But he’s a flaming moron. Emphasis on moron.

Now he’s one strike away from joining Maurice Clarett in NFL purgatory, or prison. Probably both.

Michael Vick is another one. He had everything. He may not have been a great passer, but he was a playmaker. Nobody could question the kid's ability to make plays.

Imagine Michael Vick running Miami’s wildcat offense…

But he was a moron. He threw his life away. Now, instead of being one of the highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL, he’s rotting in a jail cell hoping someone will give him an opportunity when he gets out of prison.

Assuming the Commissioner lets him back in the NFL.

These players are morons. I can’t stress this enough. They’re dumb. They’re indefensibly stupid.

Am I making my point?

The latest player out to prove just how incredibly stupid he can be is Plaxico Burress. Burress wins a Super Bowl, gets a huge contract, then goes completely insane.

He’s late for meetings. He skips treatment when injured. Things that would get normal people fired, but when you’re freakishly good at what you do, you get a pass (or a one-game suspension).

But Burress didn’t stop there. He took stupidity to a place where even Pacman Jones hasn’t gone. He went to a club and shot himself in the leg.

He shot himself in the leg. With a concealed weapon. In New York. Where he reportedly doesn't have a permit to carry.

Who knows how badly he’s hurt, but let’s assume the moron got lucky. He’s going to have to deal with the legal implications of what he did. Then he’ll have to deal with the Commissioner, who likes to suspend players who have issues with the law almost as much as I like to call them out for being morons.

Ever watch MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann? He does this thing every show called Worst Persons. You'll have to forgive me for stealing his thing, then changing it up a bit.

Plaxico, you are today’s…stupidest…person….in the world!!!

Congratulations, moron.

Sean Crowe covers the New England Patriots for Examiner.com and writes a bi-weekly column for Sports-Central.org.

He is a Senior Writer and an NFL Community Leader at Bleacher Report. You can email him at scrowe@gmail.com. His archive can be found here.

 

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  1. Sean Crowe 7 months ago

    How did I make it through this entire article without a Cheddar Bob reference? Damn it!!

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  2. C Douglas Baker 7 months ago

    You hit the NAIL on the HEAD with this one. What a [expletive deleted] idiot.

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  3. Shashwat Baxi 7 months ago

    hahaha... Cheddar Bob... good call. As a huge Giants fan, this distresses me to no end. What the hell is Plexi-glass Burress thinking when he carries a gun around a night club in mid-town. Why the hell does he need to carry a gun? What the hell was he doing with it unlocked and loaded? This could really hurt our chances at repeating as Super bowl Champions. I'm glad that we have other guys to step in and keep this from really hurting the G-Men.

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      If the Giants act quickly, strongly, and decidedly against him, it won't impact their Super Bowl run. They can win without him. If they have him around with a suspension hovering over his head, he will become a distraction.

      Send him home. Wait until he's suspended so you can get some of his bonus money back. Then cut him (or trade, I guess) when the suspension is over.

      That's what I'd do.

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  4. Bryn Swartz 7 months ago

    Eagles-Giants in eight days!!!!!! No Plaxico for Asante!!!!!!!

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      Which is good, because Asante can't cover Cheddar Bob. Now if you can just slip McNabb some Dramamine before the start of the 4th quarter you'd be all set... :)

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  5. John Fennelly 7 months ago

    The Giants have done everything but wipe this guy's ass the past 2 seasons. This latest incident seals his fate as a Giant....with talent like Hixon, Moss and Manningham in the wings, the Giants will not miss a beat...that doesnt mean they will get past Dallas though.....

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      Reminds me of Terry Glenn and the Patriots in 2001. The Pats cut him loose, still won the Super Bowl. The Giants should do the same thing.

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  6. C Douglas Baker 7 months ago

    This is a response to all the comments.

    To me, in some ways sadly, and in some ways feeling good last year's SB was not a fluke, the Giants are the best team as of today with or without Plaxico. Like one of you said, Hixon is looking pretty damn good. And the thing about the Giants is it is a total team effort. Eli is not the next coming of Peyton. They have a great D-Line, the best OL in football, and three physical, deadly RBs.

    Why is it that a player of Plaxico's talent seems to think they are above the team??? He didn't win the SB last year, the DL did.

    Burress makes me sick. And so does Tiki Barber who had a great career and then goes trashing his team after he retired. Fuck him -- they won the SB without you asshole. I can't stand the Giants frankly, but I have a ton of respect for Eli and the bullshit he put up with last year. I just wrote about how Vince Young is mentally weak. Eli has endured a lot of crap in the toughest media market there is and that after the unseemly way he ended up with the Giants which is part of the reason I root against him.

    But bottom line, the Giants are a team, not a one man show. They can win without this cancer.

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  7. Vinny Gazzara 7 months ago

    Did he really take a gun to his leg and shoot himself? How dumb can you get? Did he just graze himself or was it a full on shot to the leg? Also i heard from alot of the media it was accedentally, but i dont know if i believe that.

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      He was playing Russian Roulette, but forgot to take out any of the bullets and missed his head...

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    • James Williamson 7 months ago

      The bullet hit his thigh and the reports say it was accidental, so I think that it is safe to assume the gun went off in his pocket, hitting the thigh.

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    • brandon ferrer 7 months ago

      IT SAYS ON THE NEWSPAPER HE DROPED HIS SO CALLED WINE(ACTUALLY BEAR) ON THE FLOOR HE TRIED TO PICK IT UP AND TOUCHED HIS GUN WHILE IT IS STILL IN HIS POCKET THEN SHOT HIM SELF LIKE A RE-RE

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  8. Sayre Bedinger 7 months ago

    Plaxico is massively overrated. The guy has hands like bear claws, but he pushes off on almost every catch. Plus, the NFL doesn't need players like this douche bag, the NFL needs more players like Amani Toomer who go about their business quietly and convincingly. Burress is a tool, I hope his career in New York is over with. What does this queer have a gun for anyway, was he planning on shooting somebody? I hope he gets his life back on track.

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      He's overrated, but he's still pretty good. Still the best receiver on the Giants. I don't think they should take getting rid of him lightly, but ultimately it's the right decision.

      The guy is a cancer, the team can win without him.

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  9. kris topher 7 months ago

    Any team that puts up those can of running numbers against Baltimore can win without any receivers..

    BUT! its not out of the question for the following to happen

    1) Tampa gets the ball, scores a TD on first possession
    2) Giants fumble kickoff, Tampa scores again

    Thats when the Giants need Plax. Teams get unlucky, and it'll happen to every team. Rando fumbles, tipped pass interceptions, etc.

    A team thats heavy cover 2, and manhandles receivers at the line will give the Giants trouble if they're behind. Toomer, Smith, Moss can all be jammed. Manningham, who i love, will have to step up.

    I think whatever happens to K. McKenzie will determine the Giants future more than Plax though. The reason the Giants are so damn good is because theirline has played together forever.

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      It's all about the offensive line. No matter how good or bad your receiver are, if a good QB gets enough time, someone will be open...

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  10. Andy Simpson 7 months ago

    Great article! I want to say that unlike Pac-Rat, Plax doesn't shoot at other people, but the guy's got a kid. He missed a day of work to take the kid to school earlier this year, or so he said. I hate the Giants, so I don't want them to get rid of Plax. Jerry Jones will be knocking down his door if the Giants do, and I may shoot myself in the leg if that happens!

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      Thanks. He does seem like a Jerry Jones guy, eh? And once Pacman screws up again (this week? next week?) they'll have an open roster spot...

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  11. Ray Bogusz 7 months ago

    Plax has hopped abord the "Fail Train". I tried to think of different person to counter you with for the sake of debate, but I seriously couldn't.

    And 5'8? How do you deal with shelves?

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  12. Crayton 7 months ago

    Ricky Williams somehow returned from NFL Purgatory. Vick could do it too, I suppose.

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    • thomas moreland 7 months ago

      no one wants to see the dog killer back. Smoking pot and murdering defenseless creatures is two very different things! You never can get rid of your sociopathic behavior. Vick is a monster who deserves nothing from the NFL/ If Goodell lets him back into football, imagine the adverse publicity from the team that actually has the nerve to take him in. As for Burress, you can get the player out of the hood, but you can t get the hood out of the player. Too many wanna be gangsters in the league already. Just another ego-manical fool. Next stop, Dallas or Oakland. Vick , Jones, and Burress, could make a remake of The Longest Yard. lol thomas

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      The problem is PETA. Nobody wants PETA blocking people from coming into their stadium...

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  13. Henry Gula 7 months ago

    The guy's a total moron. Enough said. If you get shot that's one thing, but to have a gun in your pocket with the safety off? wow.

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  14. Andy Simpson 7 months ago

    As a Cowboys fan, I would rather see the Giants "shoot themselves in the foot" on the field.

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  15. Jared Zeidman 7 months ago

    A Monkey holding a gun.

    I certainly hope that picture is not a reflection of your personal views.

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  1. Brittany Baker 7 months ago

    I agree with most of what you said in this article, and I TOTALLY agree with your "giants need to act decidedly against Plax" theory...

    But I don't quite get the comparison to Pacman. I know this is going to start a controversy, but I think there are better comparison's here than a guy who has never been convicted of a crime - a guy who is the TARGET for negative attention, not the man aiming for the bullseye or pulling the trigger.

    Plax doesn't take his job seriously, he even missed treatment for an injury. He deserves to be suspended for the rest of the season, if not more. The Giants had BETTER take action against him Goodell doesn't (although he'd be the biggest hypocrite EVER if he doesn't do the suspending himself...)

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    • Sean Crowe 7 months ago

      I was more comparing stupidity than anything else. While Pacman is a far worse human being, they're on the same level when it comes to stupidity.

      Thanks for the comments!

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  2. Kenny Crute 7 months ago

    Why is it that we are all surprised when a twenty-something, newly minted millionaire does something that goes down in the pantheon of stupidity? How many times in recent memory has one of these guys done something that is seemingly unfathomable to the rest of us? Stop being shocked by the actions of these kids! I call them monsters of our own creation that come from our insatiable appetite for the worst in humanity. Now, I know it may be boring to some, but what about the other roughly 1600 NFL players who managed to make it through an entire holiday weekend without shooting themselves. We should celebrate the successes of guys who get it, and stop talking about the ones who don't. Oh, and as a sidebar, throwing a bunch of cash in a 22 year old's lap, and then expecting them to be an expert on personal conduct is stupid. Kinda like buying a franchise and being an instant expert on all things personnel. I know,... just ask Mr. Snyder in D.C.

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  3. Kenny Crute 7 months ago

    I agree Bryn, Not stupid to ask someone not to shoot themselves, just stupid that we get surprised when someone does. The 22 year old was not a reference to Plax, just the typical age of a first year player. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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