Deadspin I-Team: The Case Of Plaxico Burress' Sweat Pants

Plaxico Burress's saga has now reached its sad dénouement, with the former Giant matriculating into the New York penal system. One loose end remains, however: the matter of the sweat pants he wasn't wearing. Who's responsible for the sweat-pants misinformation? We refer, of course, to the sweat pants in which Plaxico had supposedly secreted his Glock the night he capped himself in the thigh. Everyone had a chuckle over the sweat pants. This site did. Jon Stewart did. Patton Oswalt did. Gun play isn't funny, but sweat pants certainly are. And sweat pants in a strip club are very funny. Last month, however, in an interview with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap, Plaxico took great pains to clarify that he was wearing jeans — black jeans — the night of the shooting. Earlier, the New York County District Attorney's Office had quietly come to the same conclusion: BURRESS was carrying the pistol in the waistband of his jeans, with bullets in the magazine, a round i...