Former Giants Wide Receiver Plaxico Burress Speaks to E:60’s Jeremy Schaap, excerpts from SportsCenter and Monday Night Countdown

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Former N.Y. Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, talked in detail with correspondent Jeremy Schaap today, in an exclusive E:60 interview, that will air in full Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. ET. Excerpts from the interview aired today on SportsCenter and Monday Night Countdown. Burress discussed the early morning hours of Nov. 29, when he accidentally shot himself in the leg with his own gun at the Latin Quarter nightclub in midtown N.Y., and about the two-year jail sentence he now faces.

Excerpts from Burress:

“It wasn’t like I was trying to hide it or go into this place and go through security. They knew I had it, they pat me down and they said, ok. They let me in, with it.”

“I’m there for maybe five minutes. It was getting so crowded, everybody coming over, so VIP said I’ll take you upstairs so you can relax and no one will bother you. I’m walking up the stairs and I miss a step, and my gun slides down my pants. So, it’s getting ready to hit the ground. I don’t want it to hit the ground, when it slides down my jeans, and I go to stop it from hitting the ground.

“I don’t think you could do it a million times. Through your pants you can try to stop it from hitting the ground and my finger hit right on the trigger. What are the odds in that happening?”

About E:60

E:60 is ESPN’s first multi-subject, prime-time newsmagazine that offers a combination of investigative reporting, exclusive interviews with newsmakers, in-depth profiles of intriguing sports personalities, and features on emerging star athletes.  These stories are presented in a fresh and innovative format that incorporates producer/correspondent meetings. The award-winning and critically acclaimed series, will air Aug.11 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN, in the third of five shows aired weekly, July 28-Aug. 25. The program was launched in October 2007.

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