matt weighs in

The guy shot himself in the leg.

Plaxico Burress, multi-millionaire wide receiver for the New York Giants, shot himself in the leg, apparently. I’m not one that is going to rail on star athletes or entertainers for wanting to go out and have some fun once in a while. Plax wasn’t even going to play two days later, due to a hamstring injury. Maybe it had been a while since he had been out. I don’t know.

However, instead of spending a few hundred bucks for 2-3 very large men to stand around him for a couple hours, he decides to carry a gun in his sweatpants. COME ON!

How does he not have anyone around him that knows this and talks him out of it? He’s the same age as I am…how can he not know that maybe it’s a bad idea for him, a well-known New York athlete, to go someplace where he thinks he needs to protect himself with a gun? My only thought is that he’s gone nuts and just doesn’t know any better.

In this day and age, where celebrities have to be “on” 24/7, it blows my mind whenever someone in the public eye messes up in this way. STAY HOME! No one is going to care if he didn’t go out that night. And his name wouldn’t be in the news for something so stupid. And he’d still be playing for the best team in the league with a chance to win a 2nd consecutive Super Bowl title. But that chance has been blown. And there’s a good chance he’ll spend time in jail. Remember Michael Vick?

Spend the extra dough. My guess is that there are thousands of tough guys in New York/New Jersey who would have no problem using a gun if the situation warranted it. Plax needs to hire them. At least he’d be able to move and dance without making himself look like a damn fool. He’s paid to not fumble a football, and he’s in the news for fumbling a handgun. I wonder if they can rename the winner of the “Turkey of the Year” award?