This week, former Giant and Super Bowl champion Plaxico Burress was released after serving 20 months on a gun charge. Now that wide receiver has served nearly two years for shooting himself in the foot (literally), the big questions are: How has prison affected him mentally and physically? What team will take a chance on him? Will he able muster a Michael Vick-esque comeback? And forget the gun, who the f*&k wears sweatpants to the club?
Of course Burress isn't the first—and undoubtedly won't be the last—athlete to do hard time. To get an idea of what to expect, we've taken a look at sports stars who missed a season or more due to jail time and how they fared in their comeback attempts. So, from Mike Tyson to Marion Jones, here is the History of Athlete Comeback Attempts After Prison...