Less than a year after his triumphant, championship moment, Burress made an epic mistake that unraveled a promising Giants season when he accidentally shot himself in the right leg in a New York club. Burress was arrested for the November 2008 incident, suspended by the Giants, and ended up accepting a plea deal and serving 20 months in prison.

Giants Super Bowl hero wide receiver Plaxico Burress is doing a down-and-out. The scandal-scarred star has apparently given up his sole Super Bowl ring after more than a decade of financial and legal troubles.

New York Giants hero Plaxico Burress has put his Super Bowl XLII ring on the auction block just days before this year’s championship game. Burress, whose career was mired with legal troubles, help stop the New England Patriots from joining the 1972 Dolphins as the only undefeated Super Bowl champions with his game-winning catch in 2008.