Sports Idiot of the Year

As the year winds down, I think it only fitting to name the Sports Idiot of the Year for 2008.
There was some good competition this year. Brazilian soccer "star" Ronaldo can't tell men from women and jumps on board the transvestite train. The Bengals backup wide receiver who thinks it's a good idea to punch a police officer in the chest when he can't get in a club. I'm sure there are more, but it doesn't matter because they don't win unless their name is Plaxico Antonio Burress. The soon to be former New York Giants' wide receiver is a certified Grade A moron. He is even dumber than Eli Manning looks. Here is the sequence of events that led him into "box of hair" infamy.

1. Plaxico decides that with his star status he can own a gun without registering it in the city of New York.
2. Plaxico decides to go to a night club somewhere in New York with teammate Antonio Pierce where he feels so unsafe that he brings his unregistered gun. Note: Why Plaxico felt unsafe anywhere in the world when accompanied by Antonio Pierce (6-1, 238 lbs, resembles a Kodiak bear) is unknown at this time.
3. Plaxico mishandles the gun and shoots himself in the leg.
4. Plaxico goes to the hospital where he gives a false name.
   
5. Plaxico is of course caught and is now being charged with felony possession of a firearm and several other charges stemming from that night.
6. Plaxico is dumb enough to keep an apparent "cache" of guns and ammo at his home even after being arrested and charged for not registering his firearms.

I would like to thank Plaxico for generously providing us with an example of how not to be intelligent. Not only does he think that he won't get caught for doing illegal things (seeing as how he is not recognizable at all), but also shoots himself in the leg. He probably would have won just because he shot himself. However, the latest element of possessing an artillery of unregistered firearms and not getting rid of or at least hiding them after being charged for the same exact crime a few weeks prior is what really puts him over the edge.
So... Congratulations Plaxico Antonio Burress, you are dumber than the guy who slept with transvestites.