Giants Super Bowl hero wide receiver Plaxico Burress is doing a down-and-out.
The scandal-scarred star has apparently given up his sole Super Bowl ring after more than a decade of financial and legal troubles.
Ahead of Sunday’s Big Game, Heritage Auctions put on the block the former G-Man’s icy Super Bowl XLII memento, featuring a trio of white and gold diamond-encrusted Vince Lombardi trophies and Burress’ surname.
The 6-foot-5 receiver caught the game-winning pass with just 35 seconds left as the underdog Giants defeated Tom Brady’s New England Patriots on Feb. 3, 2008, in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history. Up until that game, the Patriots were undefeated.
The ring, which celebrates the 2007 season NFL champion, is being sold on behalf of an anonymous new owner.
It was authenticated in a Nov. 16 letter from Burress, which suggests he may have hocked the ring just months ago, according to HA’s Sports Director Chris Ivy.
“I would assume it’s in 2024 — that’s the assumption we have to take,” Ivy told The Post.
Burress told Giants.com in 2014 he had worn the ring just “five or six times.”
The 12-year NFL veteran could not be reached for comment and it remains unclear why he parted with the beloved bling.
The jewelry currently has a bid for $33,000, although the Dallas-based auction house believes it could fetch a staggering final bid of at least $100,000 by the auction’s end on Feb. 22
Burress currently co-hosts FOX Sports Radio’s “Upon on Game” weekend show and owns a juice bar in Wayne, NJ.
Burress has fumbled before.
In November 2008 — just nine months after his historic catch — Burress accidentally blasted himself in the leg with an unlicensed firearm while trying to get into the Latin Quarter nightclub in Midtown Manhattan.
The explosive embroglio, which made national headlines, upended the Giants 2008 season — along with his career with the Blue Men.
In 2009, Burress pleaded guilty to attempted weapon possession and spent 20 months behind bars. After getting out, he played a single season with the Jets in 2011, and just four games with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2012.
Legal and financial troubles continued to dog him.
In 2010, Burress was slapped with a foreclosure notice on a luxe Lighthouse Point, Fla., manse he and his wife, Tiffany, purchased for nearly $4 million in 2005. The home was reportedly sold off for just $2 million in a short sale in 2014.
In 2013, Burress unloaded his luxe Virginia Beach home for $480,000 just before it was slated to go to auction under court order. The sale settled liens placed on the property stemming from a $159,000 debt Burress owed a woman, who claimed she suffered neck and back injuries after he rear-ended her car in Florida in 2008.
Two years later, Burress was charged with cutting a bad check or electronic funds transfer to stiff the Garden State out of $46,000 in taxes on his $1 million income in 2013. He scored a plea deal for a mere tax evasion charge, and was sentenced to five years’ probation and $56,000 restitution.
In 2017, the Burresses allegedly stopped paying their mortgage on their 5,500-square-foot pad in Totowa, NJ, which they purchased for $1.5 million back in 2005, leading the banks to issue a foreclosure on the property in 2018, according to court records and a TMZ report. The dispute was settled as of February 2021.
The Forest Hill Field Club in Bloomfield, NJ, secured a judgment in 2019 for Burress’ failure to pony up his $3,100 tab at the country club, according to New Jersey Superior Court records showed.
Along with Burress’ ring, Heritage is auctioning off a signed Tom Brady Patriots jersey, which the legendary quarterback wore duringin 2017. It’s expected to fetch $250,000.
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