Osi Umenyiora Lights Up LeSean McCoy
Added on Jun 19, 2011 by Jack Thurman in
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Even with the best case scenario of a quick resolution to the NFL’s labor dispute, pro football action is still a couple of months off. That hasn’t stopped Philadelphia Eagles’ running back LeSean McCoy and New York Giants’ defensive end Osi Umenyiora from engaging in a very entertaining name calling contest/feud. McCoy has accused Umenyiora of being ‘overrated’ and ‘soft’, and on Friday Osi unleashed a downright hilarious response.
On Thursday, McCoy dropped the aforementioned bombs on Twitter along with the assertion that Umenyiora is ‘the third best defensive lineman on the Giants’. Umenyiora cracked back, referring to McCoy as ‘she’, addressing him as ‘Lady Gaga’ and punctuating his rant by calling him a ‘nobody’. When contacted by the media to clarify his comments Umenyiora started in on McCoy anew:
“I refer to him as she because that is something that a woman would do. You can sit over there and be a Twitter gangster all you want to but on the football field is where you are supposed to address these types of things.”
Osi continued:
“I have always referred to him as that because he is woman. We have a lot of animosity toward each other personally and on the football field is where I thought it was left. But he has decided to take it off the football field and say some things that I just have no respect for.”
His vitriolic rant notwithstanding, Umenyiora ultimately concluded that McCoy’s insults didn’t bother him much since he considers him a ‘nobody’:
“Whenever a guy like an Andy Reid or a Michael Vick or a Jason Peters, whenever they come out and say some things like that, that might hurt me. But a guy like LeSean McCoy, he’s a nobody. He just needs to be quiet.”
Umenyiora has been busy this offseason–in addition to his ongoing feud with McCoy he’s filed a legal affidavit suggesting that New York Giants’ management havent’ been truthful in dealing with him. At the same time he claims there’s no ‘bad blood’ and he’s hoping to return to the team after the end of the lockout–assuming they give him a new contract.
