{"id":7384,"date":"2011-06-06T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2011-06-06T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:40:47","slug":"plaxico-burress-to-be-released-after-20-month-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7384","title":{"rendered":"Plaxico Burress To Be Released After 20 Month Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Locked up for 20 months for illegally carrying and firing a gun at a Manhattan nightclub, <strong>Plaxico Burress<\/strong> is ready to walk out of prison and face another grim reality, a lockout that could jeopardize the resumption of his football career.<\/p>\n<p>The former New York Giants receiver who caught the game-winning pass in the 2008 Super Bowl is set to leave the Oneida Correctional Facility in upstate New York on Monday. <strong>Burress<\/strong>, who turns 34 in August, plans to return to his Florida home to spend time with his wife, son and a daughter born while he was in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike <strong>Michael Vick<\/strong>, released in 2009 from a federal term for dogfighting, <strong>Burress<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t have a league waiting to bid on his services.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;he will play in the NFL this year,&#8221; <strong>Drew Rosenhaus<\/strong>, <strong>Burress&#8217;<\/strong> agent, said in an email to The Associated Press. &#8220;Many teams want him. He will be a top free agent. He is healthy and ready to go. He will be signed shortly after the lockout ends.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Burress&#8217;<\/strong> release caps a more than three-year saga that saw yet another athlete put behind bars, separated from family and friends and losing the riches and lifestyle most only dream about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You go from being the absolute hero to finding yourself in jail for a mistake in judgment,&#8221; <strong>Peter M. Frankel<\/strong>, <strong>Burress&#8217; <\/strong>attorney, told the AP in an interview. &#8220;It&#8217;s really a tragic story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Burress <\/strong>was at the pinnacle of his career when everything went south.<\/p>\n<p>The lanky 6-foot-5 receiver seemingly had a career-defining moment when he caught a 13-yard pass from<strong> Eli Manning <\/strong>with 35 seconds to play to give the Giants a stunning 17-14 win over the undefeated New England Patriots in the 2008 Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Locked up for 20 months for illegally carrying and firing a gun at a Manhattan nightclub, Plaxico Burress is ready to walk out of prison and face another grim reality, a lockout that could jeopardize the resumption of his football career. The former New York Giants receiver who caught the game-winning pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}