The former Giants wide receiver, who will soon be going to jail to serve a two-year sentence, sat down with ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap to talk about the night he shot himself in the leg and derailed the Giants’ 2008 season. The full interview will air on E:60 tomorrow night at 7 p.m. But the first excerpts aired tonight and were released by the network.Below are the quotes the network released:
“It wasn’t like I was trying to hide (the gun) or go into this place and go through security,” Burress said. “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 the VIPs, they 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.
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