Rome, n.y. - Former New York Giants star Plaxico Burress was released on Monday after almost two years behind bars on a gun charge from the prison and headed to Florida with his family be, as he play his chances again in the NFL.

Monday morning he left Oneida correctional facility in central New York, he hugged agent drew roses and shook hands. He was wearing a Black sweatshirt, shorts, sneakers and a Philadelphia Phillies hat.

"I would like to God only thank you for that most me by one try the times in my life," he told reporters outside the prison. "It's a beautiful day." It's a beautiful day with my family again be United. "I want to go home and spend some time with them."

"I want to thank everyone for their prayers and words of encouragement," he said. "I would like to thank all my fans around the world for the thousands of letters, for their unwavering support." "Football is when everything had to calls when they get back on the field, I will be ready."

He was in a black Range Rover, and for the airport of Rome, n.y., where he was expected to fly home immediately, and managed.

Almost two years after its in the medium security requirements prison arrival came. Burress, 34 in August transformed, planned to travel, to spend his Florida home you time with his wife, son and a daughter born, while he was in prison. He will continue to work while he on a resolution of the NFL labor dispute, said his lawyer, Peter M. Frankel.

Burress was sentenced guilty in August 2009 to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and to two years in prison. He was about three months released early for good behavior.

Because he was a high-profile prisoner, Burress was in protective custody unit in the prison, placed the 930 passengers, has 20 in protective custody. While in prison, an aggression management program completed and was Department of correctional services a lawn and grounds workers, according to the State.

Burress prison rules and regulations violated three times: he lied to a guard permission shows the phone; an other prisoner was a pair of sneakers black and silver, given contraband; and had too many cassettes and an unauthorized extra pillow in his cell, "unclean".

Burress will be for two years on probation. He has to get and keep a job, to undergo drug tests, obey curfew by his probation officer of Florida was founded to support his family and to take all the rage advice or other conditions of his probation officer.

The lanky 6-foot 4 receiver the world at the foot of the catch of a 13-yard pass from Eli Manning had with 35 seconds to play at the Giants a stunning 17-14 give victory to the undefeated New England Patriots in the 2008 Super Bowl.

Ex-Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress speaks to the media for Oneida County correction facility. (Getty Images) Its world crumbled nine months later, when he left Manhattan in a nightclub hidden with a pistol in the Confederation of the trousers. The gun slipped and fired injured him when trying you grab it, Burress himself in the thigh.

The wound was not serious. The backlash was.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for Burress be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and was angry that officials at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Burress treated and failed to report the shooting, as required by law. A physician who treated Burress was later suspended.

The weapon was in New York or New Jersey, where Burress lived not licensed. His license to carry a concealed weapon in Florida had expired in May 2008.

Roses said he has talked to several teams about the wide receiver and expected back him play in the NFL. He said Burress has matured in the prison, and there are things he would do differently.

"He has learned a lot," roses said. "He knows that he is obviously a mistake." Your career Miss two NFL seasons in the Prime. Especially be with your family. To lose out millions and millions of dollars on. "These are things that his life certainly evaluate him forced have."

He said the team he is spoke with expressed no concerns about Burress. He did not say which teams or how many he said.

"He is a top free agent to be," roses said. "It will be interested several teams top clubs at him." I expect that he is a good Treaty. "I expect to play him."

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