New York Giants suspend wideout Plaxico Burress

After three games, the Giants are probably tired of winning, that's probably why they took their premiere receiver out for two weeks.

Yes, the defending Super Bowl champions, New York Giants, are a perfect 3-0 this 2008-09 NFL football season. Eli Manning has finally matured at the quarterback position and the team looks like they're ready for another run at the Super Bowl.

And while Giants fans are pumped up about their team's early success, the franchise they're rooting for seems to have grown tired of winning quickly. That's the only explanation I can come up with after news broke out that the Giants suspended their premiere wide receiver Plaxico Burress for two weeks.

You read it, the New York Giants suspended the guy who caught that winning touchdown back in Super Bowl XLII against the Patriots. He was also the guy who they awarded with a whopping $35 million contract and finding out that this team suspended Burress for two weeks after winning all three of their contests at this point of the season is just puzzling, to say the least.

Apparently, the New York Giants are suspending Plaxico Burress for missing practice and not calling to explain his absence. The Giants are trying to push a ''team first'' concept and Burress going AWOL contradicts just that.

''We have had success here because of the team concept,'' New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said in discussing the suspension, which was handed down during a bye week for the 3-0 Giants.

''And the team concept means basically that everyone is accountable and responsible and that we don't let the other guys down. And that is what we are trying to do.''

Whew! For a moment there, I really thought they are going to start trying to lose some games on purpose. STILL, this entire thing will just kill the momentum the Giants generated this season.

Hmm... I wonder if they'll do the same thing to Eli Manning if the young QB missed practice to be with older brother Peyton in Indy?

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