SAN JOSE, Calif. – On Monday morning, Osi Umenyiora received a phone call from his close friend and former teammate Justin Tuck, who was about to announce his retirement after 11 NFL seasons, the first nine spent with the Giants.
“He called me and he was like, ‘Osi, I’m retiring today,'" Umenyiora said at a Super Bowl 50 event here. “I said, ‘No, you’re not.’ He was like, ‘Yes I am.’ And I realized he was serious. I said, ‘You know what, Justin? That’s cool. You’ve done everything you needed to do, you’ve proved everything you needed to prove.