A present or gift given to someone hoping they will either repeat their ferocious past or hope that they have a future not looking back.
I gave a gun to Plaxico Burress as a Michael Vick present when he was released from prison. He was then resigned by the Giants to everyone surprise.
Not to far into the future, when the Giants were down 28 points to the Eagles in the NFC final, Eli Manning and Burress rally a come back to win in regulation time by a field goal.
That night, Burress had to make a decision; do something stupid or prepare for the Superbowl.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)