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Was Burress named after Plexico Plantation in Kittredge, South Carolina? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.103.127 ( talk) 03:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I see nothing notable about the rescinded warrant noted below, so I removed it. Many verifiable facts that are reported as transient news don't merit inclusion in a biography.
On June 2, 2005, a district magistrate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania issued an arrest warrant for Burress after he failed to appear at a delinquent tax claim hearing. Officials in Moon Township, Pennsylvania alleged that Burress owed more than US$90,000 in back wage taxes to the municipality. The arrest warrant was later rescinded after the magistrate determined that although Burress lived in a house in Moon Township while playing for the Steelers, his legal residence remained in Florida and thus he was never subject to the municipality's wage tax.
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What kind of gun was he shot with? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.231.62 ( talk • contribs)
If someone is a higher-level user can do this I think we should add the sweatpants detail: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/01/cbsnews_investigates/main4641548.shtml
I think it should be noted that he appeared to have put the gun in the band of his sweatpants. Not surprising that it fell down his leg. John Stuart made a really great point about this: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/jon-stewart-touches-kids-plaxico-burress/4280842150/?icid=VIDLRVCOM01
Also the reason he likely got shot is because the gun he used (a .40 Glock) doesn't have a conventional safety. I has a "safe action" ( http://www.answers.com/topic/safe-action) trigger safety which would be simple to fire if you're fumbling through your sweatpants and hit the trigger.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Glauca ( talk • contribs)
Can we get rid of that last line about the slang term for Plaxico unless it's properly sourced? I have never heard of anything like that- ever. It doesn't seem like something that should be in an encyclopedia. Must have been invented in Dallas...:-) Kjscotte34 ( talk) 18:25, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Just to confirm that his name is pronounced "Plexico", not "Plaxico". kwami ( talk) 20:31, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Other editors have removed the "free agent" status from the lede and the infobox. User: Eagles247 readded "free agent" and then reverted my subsequent removal, so I'm bringing this here for discussion. This type of disagreement has come up from time to time (I think some editors want Roger Clemens to be considered a "free agent"), but I don't know if there is some sort of policy that resolves this issue. Assuming there's no policy, I would submit that we use our common sense and when it seems misplaced to consider a player a "free agent", the term should be avoided. Like in this case.-- brew crewer (yada, yada) 21:26, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Can we please semi-protect this page? It has been vandalized at least seven times today. The vandalism will increase as long as Burress is behind bars. Eagles 24/7 (C) 02:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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OK, we have him, in 2000 with the Steelers, spiking the ball thinking the play was over, and it wasn't, because he'd gone to the ground untouched; a player from the other team got the ball, and the play went as a Steelers' fumble lost.
TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT: he was following college rules! Had they been in force here, the play would indeed have been over, but he forgot that this was the NFL, not college. Carlm0404 ( talk) 06:36, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
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Was Burress named after Plexico Plantation in Kittredge, South Carolina? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.103.127 ( talk) 03:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
I see nothing notable about the rescinded warrant noted below, so I removed it. Many verifiable facts that are reported as transient news don't merit inclusion in a biography.
On June 2, 2005, a district magistrate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania issued an arrest warrant for Burress after he failed to appear at a delinquent tax claim hearing. Officials in Moon Township, Pennsylvania alleged that Burress owed more than US$90,000 in back wage taxes to the municipality. The arrest warrant was later rescinded after the magistrate determined that although Burress lived in a house in Moon Township while playing for the Steelers, his legal residence remained in Florida and thus he was never subject to the municipality's wage tax.
-—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sj ( talk • contribs)
What kind of gun was he shot with? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.231.62 ( talk • contribs)
If someone is a higher-level user can do this I think we should add the sweatpants detail: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/01/cbsnews_investigates/main4641548.shtml
I think it should be noted that he appeared to have put the gun in the band of his sweatpants. Not surprising that it fell down his leg. John Stuart made a really great point about this: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/jon-stewart-touches-kids-plaxico-burress/4280842150/?icid=VIDLRVCOM01
Also the reason he likely got shot is because the gun he used (a .40 Glock) doesn't have a conventional safety. I has a "safe action" ( http://www.answers.com/topic/safe-action) trigger safety which would be simple to fire if you're fumbling through your sweatpants and hit the trigger.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Glauca ( talk • contribs)
Can we get rid of that last line about the slang term for Plaxico unless it's properly sourced? I have never heard of anything like that- ever. It doesn't seem like something that should be in an encyclopedia. Must have been invented in Dallas...:-) Kjscotte34 ( talk) 18:25, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Just to confirm that his name is pronounced "Plexico", not "Plaxico". kwami ( talk) 20:31, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
Other editors have removed the "free agent" status from the lede and the infobox. User: Eagles247 readded "free agent" and then reverted my subsequent removal, so I'm bringing this here for discussion. This type of disagreement has come up from time to time (I think some editors want Roger Clemens to be considered a "free agent"), but I don't know if there is some sort of policy that resolves this issue. Assuming there's no policy, I would submit that we use our common sense and when it seems misplaced to consider a player a "free agent", the term should be avoided. Like in this case.-- brew crewer (yada, yada) 21:26, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Can we please semi-protect this page? It has been vandalized at least seven times today. The vandalism will increase as long as Burress is behind bars. Eagles 24/7 (C) 02:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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OK, we have him, in 2000 with the Steelers, spiking the ball thinking the play was over, and it wasn't, because he'd gone to the ground untouched; a player from the other team got the ball, and the play went as a Steelers' fumble lost.
TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT: he was following college rules! Had they been in force here, the play would indeed have been over, but he forgot that this was the NFL, not college. Carlm0404 ( talk) 06:36, 20 July 2020 (UTC)