New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora started out the season by demanding that the Giants either give him a new contract or trade him. Now he looks back and is happy that he ended up staying with the Giants this season.
“You never know how things will work out in life,” said Umenyiora on Saturday. “The season started one way for me, with all that trash-talking. Now it ends with . . . this.”
“There were times when I thought I might get traded,” he said, “and times when I thought they’d keep me around.”
Osi then laughed per the NY Daily News, “I’m glad they decided to keep me around.”
Osi indicated that he did feel like the Giants always truly cared about him through the whole situation.
“But it never reached the point of no return,” said Osi over the weekend. “It was business with me and business with them. But I never felt it was personal and I never felt they did, eit...
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