Former Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress apologized to his ancestors and tearfully kissed his abundant wife and adolescent son goodbye Tuesday afore he was led abroad to bastille in New York to activate confined a two-year book on a weapons charge.
Burress, at the time a brilliant receiver with the New York Giants, was at the Latin Quarter bistro in Manhattan in November if a .40-caliber gun tucked into his waistband slipped down his leg and fired, acid him in the thigh.
Burress accustomed in the attorneys Tuesday cutting jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt, a abrupt adverse to the aphotic dejected clothing he wore endure ages if he entered his accusable plea.
He was accompanied by his abundant wife, Tiffany; his 2-year-old son, Elijah; his father, grandmother and stepmother.
Burress told Judge Michael Melkonian afore sentencing: "I wish to apologize to my family."
With time off for acceptable behavior, Burress, 32, apparently will serve 20 months. He could be appear from bastille as aboriginal as the bounce of 2011 and will be monitored an added two years afterwards he is freed.
Michael Strahan, a above Giants assistant who is now an NFL television analyst, acclimated his Twitter annual to abutment Burress: "My Thoughts and Prayers are with my man Plaxico and his ancestors today!!!"
The Giants, through agent Pat Hanlon, said, "This has been a tragic, sad, black bearings from the beginning. Our affair has consistently been for Plax's welfare, and for his family, and that continues to be our cardinal feeling."
Burress' big moment with the Giants was if he bent the acceptable touchdown canyon adjoin the ahead best New England Patriots in the endure minute of the 2008 Super Bowl.
The Giants appear Burress in April, but he told ESPN he hopes to resume his NFL career if his book is over.
"When I get out, I'll be 33, not 43," Burress said in an account advertisement in August. "I'll still be able to run and catch. I'll still accept the God-given adeptness to snag footballs; that's what I adulation to do. Of course, I wish to play again."
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