Super Bowl XLIII may have looked a lot different if one of the stars from last year's big game didn't shoot himself and his team in the leg.
Plaxico Burress has always had character issues. This time he went too far.
And November 29, 2008 will be remembered as the night the New York Giants' season changed.
Inclined to show off his wealth by wearing thousands of dollars in bling, Burress insisted on packing a gun at a Manhattan nightclub.
Instead of someone giving him trouble for his jewelry, Burress mugged himself and his season. His gun went off lodging a bullet into his thigh.
Adding insult to injury, Burress faced felony charges for carrying an unlicensed loaded gun into a nightclub.
The Giants suspended their star receiver indefinitely; they went from sitting atop the NFL at 11-1 and seeming destined to repeat as champions, to stumbling to a 12-4 finish.
Against the Eagles in the playoffs, Eli Manning looked lost, obviously missing his favorite 6-foot-5 target. Manning threw just two touchdowns in his final five games of the season compared to 19 in the first 12.
After seeing what happened to the Giants without a go-to-guy and the flipside with Arizona and Larry Fitzgerald, it's clear New York and Burress need each other.
The Giants better hope Burress keeps his hands they can see them.
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