Burress Gives New Meaning to Bullet Pass
Oh yeah, you knew I was blogging about this nonsense. Chad Johnson had established what seemed to be an insurmountable lead in becoming Simply Dumb’s Athlete of the Year. But then Plaxico (pronounced Plex-i-Co or if you prefer, Blithering Idiot) Burress went and accidentally shot himself in the leg at a New York nightclub.
Sigh, make us at least work for this stuff. It gets better as multiple layers of stupidity are piled on. The physician that treated Burress is now on suspension for not reporting the gunshot wound. Police found out about it from TV reports (and blogs, I’m betting blogs were involved) making Mayor Mike Bloomberg even more angry than he would be ordinarily.
As part of the city’s increased security measures since 9/11 Bloomberg has locked down on two important items: concealed weapons and public smoking. Concealed weapons because of their obvious public safety danger and public smoking – because, well, he really hates public smoking. Terrorists are notorious tobacco abusers I’m sure.
The Giants have suspended Burress for the remainder of the season in a largely symbolic gesture. The NFL’s conduct policy would have likely taken Burress out for the season anyway. That or the gaping bullet wound left in his leg, I imagine.
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