New York Giants OLB Brian Burns has lived up to his superhero nickname by playing through a painful groin injury.
New York Giants outside linebacker Brian Burns goes by the nickname of Spider-man, the popular Marvel Comics character who patrols the streets of New York to thwart criminals from doing their thing.Burns is doing a different kind of patrolling for the Giants, though, making sure that opposing quarterbacks don’t do their thing against Big Blue.
Not bad for a guy who continues to fight his toughest opponent yet: his body. Burns has been ailing with a sore groin since Week 3, one that after last week’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles saw him leave the Giants' locker room with a very heavy limp reminiscent of Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker "Mean Joe" Greene’s
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