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If you know football, then you know Plaxico Burress – former wide receiver of the NFL’s New York Giants.

Plaxico Burress Mugshot

Burress, convicted on a weapons charge of carrying an unlicensed handgun, just started his 2 year jail term for committing one of the stupidest crimes any multimillion dollar athlete could commit (stupid for anyone actually).

It was just your average party evening for the Superbowl hero when he was at a New York City nightclub drinking and dancing the night away.  That’s when things went wrong – the loaded and unlicensed handgun tucked away in his sweatpants accidentally went off and shot him in the leg – ouch!!

The whole situation leads to many questions.  Questions like:  What was he doing with a loaded gun?  Why didn’t he have it registered?  Why didn’t he have the safety on and most of all – why was he wearing sweatpants at a nightclub?