Central New York is losing one of its more famous residents today, as NY Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress is being released from the Oneida Correctional Facility in Rome, NY (in case you didn’t know, we’re kind of a reverse farm team for the dregs of NYC society). He got a few months shaved off his two-year sentence thanks to good behavior. You may recall that the hapless Burress tucked a gun into his sweat pants and managed to shoot himself in the leg. Since the dummy only managed to hurt himself (and given the shit that people do and never see the inside of a jail cell), I was always kind of surprised that they sent him up the river (a euphemism – for those who don’t know – that refers to sending NYC criminals up the Hudson River to “Sing-Sing” prison in Ossining, NY).

Of course NYC has more criminals than Sing-Sing has cells, so they just kept sending them farther and farther up the river. Now poor Plaxico goes from lockdown to lockout, as NFL owners continue to not understand that there are billions of dollars to be lost in not having a football season this year (and beyond; the more the fans get used to not having the NFL, the more we’ll realize we can live without it – especially since there’s always college football to watch). To be honest, I find professional sports less and less interesting. Players come and go, and it’s very hard to care about any of these steroid-infested two-legged cattle.

Fortunately, if we want to see some real football played by non-prima donnas we have the Syracuse Shock of the vaunted Empire Football League, 2010 NAFL Empire Division and East Region Champs (and, I might add, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) and off to 2-0 start this season, having licked the Lackawana Dynasty 38-18 and foiled the Finger Lakes Impact 51-6.

Hey, Plaxico, there’s a roster spot waiting here for you if you want to turn your life around. Hell, you can probably even play QB if you want (or pretty much any other position).

Oh well, today’s my early day, so I guess I better get going so I can get gone and then get back.