Osi Umenyiora should probably read up on the Streisand effect.
Umenyiora, a free agent defensive end, issued a statement today denying what he described as “vicious and malicious lies that have recently been perpetuated all over the media.”
That statement caused my eyebrows to raise, because I’m part of the NFL media and I had seen nothing of this story that was supposedly “all over the media.” The statement then sent me to Google News, where I found . . . nothing. Not a single one of those lies “all over the media” came up on a Google News search of Umenyiora’s name.
Eventually I found out that a few sites have, in fact, recently published a rumor about Umenyiora texting “I love you” to a woman other than his new wife. Scandal! To the tiny number of people who care about Osi Umenyiora’s love life.
Umenyiora says the texts are bogus and the source of the texts was an “unstable” man who was trying to “discredit” Umenyiora’s recent wedding to 2011 Miss Universe Leila Lopes.
It was foolish of Umenyiora to stoop to the level of this “unstable” person and bring more attention to this rumor, which had gained so little traction until Umenyiora spoke up about it. Umenyiora would be wise to enjoy himself with his beautiful new bride, and to shrug off any “unstable” people spreading rumors about him, as well as the relatively small number of media outlets that published those rumors.
