Osi Umenyiora promised Saturday to buy back Giants great Lawrence Taylor his Super Bowl XXV ring.
The catch — the Giants defensive end will only bid to win the auction if he lands one million followers on Twitter.
Umenyiora put himself forward as an unlikely entrant early Saturday.
“All L.T, NYG, NFL FANS! If i get 1million followers, i will buy L.T’s ring back and give it to him,” he tweeted. “The 1,000,000th will give it to him. In person. I’m not joking.”
Umenyiora will need to pay a six-figure sum to land the 1991 ring, with the top offer after 24 bids standing at $108,378 with less than 12 hours to go before the auction ends Saturday night.
But his money looked safe with the Umenyiora approximately 970,000 followers off the one million mark at the same stage.
Umenyiora later clarified it would be a random follower that would return the ring to Taylor, after it was pointed out that those helping him get to seven figures on Twitter would be doing so without a shot at the main reward.
Taylor, meanwhile, was still coming to terms with the fact that his Super Bowl ring, which he won at the end of the 1990-91 season when the Giants defeated the Buffalo Bills in the title game, was even up for auction.
A longtime representative of Taylor told FOX Sports’ Jay Glazer on Friday that the former NFL linebacker had given the championship ring to his son TJ who could do whatever he wanted with it.
“Lawrence was in fact unaware of it but said he gave it to TJ and it’s his right to do what he wants with it. He’s fine with whatever TJ decided,” Mark Lepselter told Glazer.