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Thu 12 Dec 2008Bloomberg goes gunning for icon Burress
AMERICA AT LARGE:TEN MONTHS ago Plaxico Burress's picture was splashed across the front page of every newspaper in the country, and not a few around the world, after he caught a game-winning touchdown pass from Eli Manning with just 35 seconds left on the clock to give the New York Giants a 17-14 victory in Super Bowl XLII.
Most of the same newspapers carried another photograph of Burress yesterday morning. This time he was being hustled out of a NYPD station house, his hands cuffed behind his back, in a deliberately staged prep walk on his way to a courtroom, where he would be arraigned on weapons charges and released on $100,000 bail.
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