Above the Law (reporters)

by LiveNDieBlue on Oct 25, 2008 6:10 PM CDT Comment 12 comments

Here in Dallas we've had our fair share of run in's with the law, and we've had our fair share of "characters" who the Press loves to hate, but there's very few time we ever get a character that the Press doesn't go off on.....so my question is

Why does Plaxico Burress get off the hook???

Two Police recorded activities at his home for violence oriented behavior, his own club has suspended him Twice, and the Steelers let him leave in free agency because they saw his as trouble. So tell me why Kevin Winslow is getting brow beat by the press and Plax is able to ride the waves above it? At what point can we begin to count on these guys to do their job and go jump in his face and ride his case like they have Randy Moss, TO and Steve Smith (opps, he has had several altercations too and the press still lines his bed with feathers)???

Why wont the Press, the Reporters jump on the Giants like they do so many others? I mean everybody know Branden Jacobs starts stuff EVERY WEEK and yet no one rides his as a dirty player. It is the grace period from last year that Plax was so injured and still played each week that has kept him above reproach? Or was he just lazy and not wanting to practice (cause he looked darn good in all those games, not a limp, not a loss of stride or step!) and everyone over looked it cause Jeremy Shocky was the dumping boy?

What do you think? Are the G-men getting a pass on being pulled apart for every little thing (like we are) or am I missing something? (Seems since they are from NY with all that Press around that they would be the center of scrutiny)

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thats the exact reason they don’t report on plax is because he is from New York. All the press love the giants, everybody in new york loves them.

by jack dein on Oct 25, 2008 6:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Two reasons

1. East coast bias by MSM

2. Winning cures everything

by Billito on Oct 25, 2008 7:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

if they were losing or in a funk then the first thing that NY media would do would be to look at that player and probably blame sheli, and say that Coughlin got too soft with his team.

Ignore the Mainstream Media, EMBRACE THE HATE!!!!

by cowboy78 on Oct 25, 2008 9:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good post.

I’ve been wondering for a while whey Plax gets a pass. He is far worse than T.O. or Chad.

by Carl Shelton (GloryDayz88) on Oct 26, 2008 8:02 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

it is funny because Burress is 10 times

the cancer T.O. ever was with the Niners or Eagles.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Oct 26, 2008 11:18 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Burress caught the Super Bowl winner...

He’s hardly a cancer. His teammates love him. More importantly, Eli loves him. There is no cancer. There is no controversy. Plax is a great receiver and the Gnats love him. They solved their problems in-house, and their good-to-go. And trust me it took a lot of pride swallowing to type this out.

by AikmanNailedMySis on Oct 26, 2008 4:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

they solved their problems!!

are you kidding me, the guy is an idiot, he as fined again this week, not only by the league for berating officials on the field, but the club fined him again for missing treatment for his neck and they didn’t start him this week against the Steelers. The team has fined plax over sixty times in the last year for conduct detrimental to the team. A choir boy, he is not!!! His act is growing tiresome in New York

by Deke on Oct 26, 2008 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If Singletary was his coach

He’d send him to the showers.

I really doubt his teammates love the guy, how could they when he does what he wants and doesn’t put in the commitment that the other 52 guys do. He’s got talent so he gets away with it. I imagine there is a lot of resentment in that locker room.

T-New, shutting down WR's for Dallas since 2003

by APerfectStar on Oct 26, 2008 10:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

hahaha watching that was AWESOME!

Vernon Davis is too young and WAYYYY too unproven to be pulling that garbage. Props to Singletary. As far as solving their problems in-house, I misspoke. I meant it as, they disciplined him in house. The biggest thing is that it doesn’t effect what goes on during games. However I do agree that if he’s beating his wife, or whatever “domestic disputes” are going on, it should warrant further investigation by the Commish. I live with two Gnats fans so I get most of my info from them. I’m sure they downplay it, but they don’t seem to care. He’s still getting a reprieve that the GW against the Pats, I guess.

by AikmanNailedMySis on Oct 27, 2008 7:39 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Answer Regarding Plaxico Burress

He doesn’t play for the Dallas Cowboys — that’s why he doesn’t receive as much notoriety and that’s why he doesn’t receive more national scrutiny… point blank.

If he wore the Star, I GUARANTEE that he’d be publicly vilified nonstop to the nth degree — NO DOUBT.

The mediots know they’ll land a ton more viewers if it’s a potentially negative Cowboys story rather than any other team in the NFL… although you’ll never hear anyone in MSM admit it.

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by silverblue5 on Oct 27, 2008 10:55 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

THIS IS EXACTLY RIGHT

There’s a reason that Jerry has the most valuable franchise in sports.

Whining about this won’t change a thing. The New York Giants don’t inspire much of an emotional reaction outside of the tri-state area. Their fans wonder why they are in 1st place and still get 1/1000th of the media coverage Dallas gets. Dallas is America’s Team and conjures up either undying love or bone-deep hatred.

You have to take the good with the bad.

Personally, I prefer it this way compared to the alternative. Even in bad times, the Cowboys are anything but irrelevant.

"Well, we didn't block real good but we made up for it by not tackling."

- John McKay, the first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

by 5Blings on Oct 27, 2008 12:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Burress vs. Winslow

There’s an insulated media quality to the NY sports teams…the NY press views them as their exclusive turf when it comes to any scurrilous news and the rest of the sports media pretty much stick to that agreement. Same goes for Chicago teams. I think that part of the reason why this works out the way that it does is because the NY press will turn on their teams in the blink of an eye (except the Yankees, because they’re all scared shitless of getting on the wrong side of the Steinbrenners).

Why Winslow is the story in Cleveland instead of their dumbass management is because of the perception of Kellen Winslow. I think it’s because whatever else Winslow may be, he’s generally acknowledged to be an asshole. Sports reporters know that it’s easier to pin things on an asshole because they’re unsympathetic figures, so the end result is that sports reporters cover them more than they do other players.

This is why you can’t have more than three Cowboys stories these days without one of them involving T.O. or having a quote from T.O. in it. T.O. is a completely unsympathetic figure that sports reporters can pin anything on, ergo they write about the team through him.

In short, Burress probably won’t get any more passes if he breaks the law again, but he got a pass this time because he plays for a New York team and therefore he is on the territory of the New York press.

by Mister Naxal on Oct 27, 2008 12:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs