Plaxico Burress: Fined, benched & suspended - he's been 6'5" of trouble
Saturday, November 29th 2008, 8:39 PM
Tiffany Burress has filed 2 restraining orders against hubby Plaxico.
At 6-feet-5, Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress is a big target - for passes and problems.
Burress quickly established himself as Eli Manning's No. 1 receiver after the Giants signed him as a free agent from Pittsburgh in March 2005.
But his on-field heroics were inevitably tempered by his off-field woes, leading to more than two dozen fines, two benchings and a September suspension.
Through four years in New York, Burress racked up more than 30 fines for assorted misbehavior. This year, Burress has surrendered more than $200,000 to the Giants and theNFL in fines and lost salary.
He was suspended for two weeks, missing one game, after skipping a day of work and failing to notify the Giants - a $117,000 hit. Coach Tom Coughlin has benched Burress twice - once in 2005 and again this year - for violating team rules.
Burress was also fined in June after refusing to practice during a team minicamp in a protest over his contract.
His wife, Tiffany, has twice called police to their New Jersey home after off-season domestic disputes. Both times , she reportedly took out a temporary restraining order against her husband, though both eventually were dismissed in state court.
The 31-year-old former first-round draft pick from Michigan State was even caught on-camera cursing Coughlin during a game earlier this season.
The continuing Burress soap opera, an anomaly in the typically sedate Giants clubhouse, has worn on his teammates and coaches.
Burress has remained unrepentant after each incident, paying his fines and blithely moving on to the next confrontation.
With the Steelers, Burress once skipped a Mother's Day minicamp without notifying the team. Burress later said he boycotted because his mother had died - two years earlier. "I took it as an offense to the guys that have mothers," he later explained.
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