http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2009/08/15/report-plaxico-burress-facing-minimum-8-game-suspension/ The odds of Plaxico Burress signing with an NFL team for the 2009 season seem to be getting longer by the day. Beyond the legal issues, potential chemistry disruption and questions about what playing shape Plax is in, the threat of a lengthy NFL suspension looms for any franchise even considering Burress as an option. Roger Goodell's season-long ban of Donte' Stallworth has set the bar for any future suspension -- Burress injured himself, of course, as opposed to killing someone while driving drunk, so it would make sense if his penalty was less severe than Stallworth's. According to a report by Gary Myers of the New York Daily News, Burress would still be forced to miss substantial time, though. Myers cites "sources" as saying that Goodell would suspend Burress for at least eight games, and possibly longer. Eight games actually seems about right -- between Stallworth's sentence and Michael Vick's maximum six-game suspension, an eight-gamer for Burress would make sense. This is probably all moot at this point. It's hard to envision any team taking a run at Burress for 2009, especially since that team would be planning for Week 9 and beyond. That creates a Catch-22 of sorts: Only a playoff team would deem Burress' acquisition worthwhile for half a season, but why would a likely playoff team mess with its lineup by adding a major distraction in? Plaxico's going to have to explore other options, I'd guess, which probably means the UFL. He's got a mess waiting for him in the NFL, and it doesn't appear set to go away any time soon.
I think Plax has some bigger things to worry about then an 8 game suspension...He's probably looking at a minmum of a 3 year jail term.
Thought they offered him two, and he said no he wanted only one. Either way I agree, it does not look for for the next couple of years either way.
The sad thing is that he broke the law in Goodell's city. Goodell needs to punish him to look good to the city the NFL is headquartered in. He's facing prison and and angry commissioner. He's in a serious lose-lose situation and everything he's done to this point makes him look like a blithering idiot.
You have to realize too that he is 32 years old now. Two years from now he may not have anything left.
silly question, but does that 8 game suspension apply to 2009 only, or if he sits out the entire season, does he get tagged the first 8 games of 2010 instead?
