December 2, 2008
NEW YORK CITY -- Plaxico Burress suffered a gunshot wound while spending a night out at The Latin Club in Manhattan.
Burress, who is under a Goldman Sachs-like $35 million dollar contract with the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants, is no stranger to disciplinary action by the NFL. Once, he was fined $45,000 for abusing a game official.
But this time, Burress' troubles are different, and indicative of a problem that runs deep throughout today's NFL: Black on Black crime.
Last November, Sean Taylor of the Washington Redskins was killed during a botched home invasion. Darrent Williams of the Denver Broncos was killed in a drive-by just a few months later. Perhaps the most notorious of the shootings was the Pac Man Jones shootings outside the Minxx Gentleman's Club in Las Vegas where Jones "Made it Rain" on strippers with $81,000 in cash. When the strippers took the cash, outrageously thinking it was for them, an agitated Jones started an argument that led to the retaliatory shootings. All black on black crimes.
But the crimes are not limited to shootings. In 2000, Ray Lewis stabbed another black man, got away with the murder, and went on to win a Super Bowl the following season.
When the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, was questioned about the issue of black on black crime and his league, Goodell responded, "Crime? The imbecile shot himself in the leg. Color me bad, maybe, but certainly not black on black. That is how I interpret the rules."
Editor's Note: Goodell might be a racist. Lewis might be a murderer. Burress is an idiot. Pac Man obviously misunderstood the concept behind a strip club; otherwise, many a man would only take a single one dollar bill into the strip club since it would be reusable.
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