Plaxico Burress and his one man football team

If you are a football fan you obviously are aware that NY Giants star wide receiver Plaxico Burress is in trouble with the law for accidentally shooting himself in the leg while in at a NY nightclub. Most people are saying enough is enough with Plaxico and his issues. Earlier this year he was suspended by the Giants for missing practice and he has often been fined for being late for meetings. They want the Giants to release him and claim he should be banned from football. My thoughts are that Plaxico does not appear to be a bad guy and that he suffers only from what many of us suffer from and that is what I call “authorityitiss”. That is he doesn’t like to have to listen to those in power tell him what to do. That is why he misses practices and meetings and that is most likely why he got himself into this latest mess. He wasn’t trying to hurt anyone. The only thing he is guilty of is playing by his own rules by carrying an unregistered gun. Whether it is missing meetings or not registering a gun it all points to the same issue; he doesn’t like to follow rules,

Most of us can probably relate to Plaxico in some way. If you work for a company you have to follow rules and do things that you don’t agree with or like to do. Most reasonable people make a choice to “put up” with things that they don’t want to do for the greater good of being successful. I have a friend who is much like Plaxico in that he hates to follow “the rules” He’s a highly successful business man in a fortune 500 company because as he says it; “sometimes you have to put up with stuff to be able to succeed.”

Plaxico has himself in big trouble and may end up in jail for it. However, lets not think that he is so different from the rest of us. Many who are like Plaxico end up starting their own businesses so they don’t have to take orders from others. ( I would bet that a few of my old bosses would put me in this catagory) Maybe Plaxico could start his own one man football team.