Media Needs To Calm Down A Bit On The Burress Situation

Unless you've been under a rock you've heard about the Plaxico Burress situation. He was up in the club with a tool and accidentally shot himself in the leg. I'll throw in the obligatory... allegedly. Love that word in these situations. If you just get the energy and the feeling of how the media is reporting this you would have thought this man was a cold-blooded unruly criminal. He's actually just a athlete who's had some issues with his team, been fined for those issues and probably has been a big headache for the New York Giants - not society. It kills me how they prviously took the man to task because of the obvious domestic issue he had going on earlier in the season when he said he had to take his kid to school, which really meant it was none of our business what happened. You got the sense some in the Media wanted to warm up the get-Burress-out-of-town car back then.

Look, Burress shot himself on some idiotic Cheddar-Bob stuff, didn't shoot another person and right now could only be accused being a pain in the ass to the NYG's, having bad judgement and making a bad decision. Some already have the man banned from the league, kicked off the team and put in jail with no key. Whatever the Giants do with Burress is their decision and up to them but let the thing play out before you banish the man from the human society. It's obviously it wasn't a good move to take his gun with him to the club, and it definitely wouldn't have hurt to have at least one security guard which could have legally protected Plax. But if he's going to be judged by the mainstream then lets play by the mainstreams bogus rules and let the legal system play itself out before riding shotgun in the car that the media is driving. I mean who really thinks it's fair for a first time offender with no criminal record to be facing 7 years of jail time for this while these politicians steal millions and get bailed out?

Understand i'm not saying that he's not a knucklehead and needs some re-wiring but up until this incident you could make the case for all his other so called distractions being dumb stuff, that's between him and his employer. But because the Media already had the machine rolling the perception is that this gun situation is a regular occurence for the guy and that he did it again feeling. I agree with a lot that has been said as far as being a distractions and surely he has to face possible reprecussions but at the sametime I have no reason to call him a bad guy, a criminal and render his life now useless. I think that's a bunch of garbage.