Plaxico Burress

New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was accidentally shot in the leg at a nightclub, it was reported Saturday.

ESPN.com and Fox Sports.com indicated that the injury was not a danger to life. It was not clear how the club shooting took place. The website of Fox said Burress spent the night in hospital.

I put 't have anything for you at this stage, spokesman Pat Hanlon said team Associated Press of Giants Stadium before the Super Bowl champions left for a flight to Washington for a game Sunday against the Red Skins.

Telephone calls to Burress 'at home and repeated his agent, drew Rosenhaus, were not immediately returned.

Totowa Police in New Jersey, where Burress lives during the season, and New York City, where he visits occasionally in clubs, had no report of a shooting involving the player.

We collect information, just as everyone spokesman Joe Browne, NFL said otherwise.

Burress injured a tendon shank two weeks ago against Baltimore Ravens. The Giants said Friday that it does not play Sunday.

The 31-year-old receiver was suspended for a game against Seattle on October 5 and refined $ 117,500 for missing a meeting and a lack of equipment to inform the team of his absence. He said he had a family emergency.

He also was sentenced to $ 45,000 by the NFL for his conduct during a game Oct. 19 against the 49ers in which he abused an official and threw a ball into the stands.

Burress caught the winning pass in the Giants win la 'Super Bowl over the Patriots in New England. He signed a five-year, the $ 35 million contract hours before the season opened in September.

The signing came after an unsettling off-season when Burress was sentenced to $ 25,000 for refusing Minicamp during a practice mandatory in June. He also missed most of training camp at the University at Albany with an ankle heels. He insisted the damage - not his contract - kept him off the field.

Despite his lack of practice, Burress started in the opener against Washington and caught 10 passes 133 yards. The following week, he had five hooks for 81 yards and landing in a victory over St. Louis.

The rest of the season was not as productive. The most he has caught passes in any game since four years ago in a loss to Cleveland on October 13, the game that followed his suspension.

Burress has 35 hooks for 454 yards and four landings in the one season where he has consistently drawn double insurance. His streak of receptions in 115 consecutive games ended last week in Arizona. He aggravated his tendon damage shank during the first series and did not return.

It was the sixth-long active streak in the league, dating back to November 26, 2000 against Cincinnati, Burress 'novice season in Pittsburgh.

Signed as a free agent in 2005, Burress had caught a pass in each of the 56 previous games in which he played for the Giants.

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