NY Post - And he thought Cowboys fans were nasty. Plaxico Burress got a zero’s welcome behind bars at Rikers Island, including taunts of “a – - hole!” and “The Giants suck!” according to jail guards. “He was depressed,” said one guard from Rikers, where the former Giants superstar spent his first-ever night behind bars. “He was trying to keep to himself, but everyone was yelling at him.” “These people got nothing,” a second guard explained of the taunts. “What else are they gonna do?” …Burress was strip-searched. He was also shorn of his trademark goatee. He got a shower, an ID card, an orientation session and his new wardrobe. That includes his hunter-green uniform tops and bottoms, a pair of black work boots, and a pair of white, low-top canvas sneakers.

As much as I appreciate the sentiment behind anyone calling Plaxico an asshole or saying the Giants suck, I have to admit some part of me feels bad about this. For all of Burress’ general douchiness and reckless disregard for the safety of America’s club going population in bringing a gun into a nightclub, he shot himself for crying out loud. I have to think it’s a little severe to send a guy to Riker’s Island for 20 months for busting a cap in his own ass and subjecting him to the kind of abuse normally reserved for child rapists and grandma killers.

Then again, I think about the smug satisfaction on his face after he caught the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl That Shall Not Be Named and it makes me feel all warm and tingly. There’s a certain karmic retribution in knowing Plax is going to be getting the same treatment he gave Ellis Hobbs on that play. Let this be a warning to enemies of the Patriots everywhere. Fresh Fish! Fresh Fish!