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| We thought the LeSean McCoy-Osi Umenyiora beef was done, but Osi fired back. |
ESPN.com- Osi Umenyiora apparently isn't ready to let his feud with LeSean McCoy die down.
On Mother's Day, the New York Giants defensive end tweeted, "Happy Mothers Day Lesean Mccoy! Enjoy your special day!!"
Last summer, Umenyiora referred to the Eagles running back as "Lady Gaga" and "she" after McCoy tweeted that the defensive end is "overrated" and "soft" and the third-best defensive lineman on the Giants.
On Sunday, McCoy tweeted, "Lol let the beef begin."
Umenyiora recently joined Twitter and it didn't take him long to take a jab at McCoy. Umenyiora later tweeted to former teammate Brandon Jacobs, "u know the beef is never over. Never."
Umenyiora has said that he and McCoy have been going at each other for a long time, but the Eagles running back really drew his ire last summer with the "overrated" and "soft" tweets, which was in reference to news about Umenyiora's affidavit about general manager Jerry Reese allegedly promising him a raise as part of the players' lawsuit against the NFL during the lockout.
"I refer to him as she because that is something that a woman would do," Umenyiora told ESPNNewYork.com last June. "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.
"I have always referred to him as that because he is woman," Umenyiora continued. "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."
The Eagles and Giants have hated each other for years, that's obvious. Philly's inferiority complex has been pretty apparent for years and New York is irked just enough by their I-90 rival to answer back. The most recent bout of trash talking between these two cities came via Twitter and through two of the team's most outspoken players.
Classic Osi Umenyiora here. Guy loves to talk and will never back down from a fight whether it be verbally or Twittorically(whatever that means). I thought this shot was alright, but the Lady Gaga comments a while back were much funnier. Actually when Osi referred to McCoy as a "Twitter gangster" I thought it was hilarious. Twitter has to be the softest form of trash talking. I'd be more offended if someone decided to go after me via Facebook. But I guess Twitter is the way guys get their distant trash talking done these days. I'm assuming we are long removed from the days of Ochocinco sending his opposing cornerbacks deodorant, aspirin and other toiletries which is the ultimate form of smack talking.
I'll give Osi credit, he's won two Super Bowls so he obviously has the "scoreboard" argument on his side. But really you're going to go back at McCoy long after this beef seemed settled? Was Osi mad because the Rangers were getting more play than the Giants offseason for the first time in 18 or so years? Had to get the Giants back on New York's radar? C'mon man, you call yourself a champion and you let little stuff get you going? McCoy can talk all he want, but he has no pedigree to back it up. His stats aren't mind-blowing and his Eagles have won absolutely nothing.
Keep acting like Twitter gangsters and we'll see how much people want to shut down the NFL because of its "violent nature."
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