Lawrence Taylor Super Bowl Ring Auction Fetches High Price, Ignites Osi Umenyiora Twitter Scheme

New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor (56) rests on the bench near the end of season opener against the San Francisco 49ers at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. on Sunday, Sept. 7, 1992.

By Brad Biggs, National Football Post

Lawrence Taylor’s Super Bowl XXV ring has sold and Osi Umenyiora isn’t the new owner of the jewelry.

Taylor’s ring sold Saturday night at auction by the firm SCP Auctions. Umenyiora had said if he got 1 million Twitter followers he would step up and purchase the ring to return to the former New York Giants star. When Umenyiora, who started the day with less than 30,000 followers realized that was impossible, he lowered his aim to 500,000. Needless to say, he finished more than 400,000 short of his goal.

@OsiUmenyiora
Osi Umenyiora

L.T is a football LEGEND! If 1,000,000 people support him getting his ring back, then its worth it to me to buy it and give it back to him

May 19, 2012 12:03 pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® Reply Retweet Favorite

@OsiUmenyiora
Osi Umenyiora

Deadline is 10pm tonight for the auction for LT'S Ring! Im reducing it to 500,000!!!

May 19, 2012 4:08 pm via Twitter for BlackBerry® Reply Retweet Favorite

@OsiUmenyiora
Osi Umenyiora

Good Morning people! Well i guess we didnt make it to 500k for LT. But i appreciate the people who tried. #respect# you can now unfollow me

May 20, 2012 10:48 am via Twitter for BlackBerry® Reply Retweet Favorite

Taylor’s ring sold for $230,401 in hot bidding at the end of the auction as it nearly doubled in price. There were 30 total bids on the ring. Taylor's son is the one who sold the ring via the auction house. Hopefully, whatever need possessed him to hawk his old man's ring has been met.
 

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[DredLockRasta]

04:21 PM on 05/25/2012

Come on LT get your life together, you can coach, be a talkin head at espn or nfl network,

[ProfessorBIGWUN]

10:06 PM on 05/23/2012

His ring...his actions...his problem...

[rikster]

09:40 PM on 05/23/2012

wish I had the $$$$$$..I would buy it and give it back to him...

[Absolute]

09:02 PM on 05/23/2012

LT had zero respect for his wife. Is it any wonder that the so may be angry with him?

[Tlitecky]

11:49 AM on 05/23/2012

Hey Brad--time to go back to "grammar" school! "who started the day with less than 30,000 followers"

[ennui the third]

05:32 AM on 05/23/2012

It's come to this.

[simpleperson]

05:35 PM on 05/22/2012

Wow...So all along Tebow is really doing the "LT" after a touchdown.

[butchcliff]

06:22 AM on 05/22/2012

Sad state of affairs his life direction took, after football. He was so great

[Jetwash]

01:12 PM on 05/25/2012

Any chance this sad state of affairs may be related to CTE?

[dwill123]

02:36 PM on 05/21/2012

Say the ring was stolen, get the insurance money and by a replacement.

[IndependentAndProud]

01:35 AM on 05/22/2012

What a remarkably honorable plan.

[nygcruz80]

02:12 PM on 05/22/2012

LOL, agreed

[chiodo08]

10:33 AM on 05/21/2012

...who cares

[Doctor Fever]

09:29 AM on 05/21/2012

Shame on Osi Umenyiora. If he cared that much about Taylor, he would have just quietly and without fanfare bought the ring and gave it to him. Instead, he turned it into some ridiculous Twitter scheme to get himself some attention. Jackass.

[FDRliberal]

01:14 PM on 05/22/2012

As a Giants fan I agree with you 100%.

[nygcruz80]

02:21 PM on 05/23/2012

As another NYG fan, I gotta agree.....