Giants' Gillan back with team after passport issue

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants punter Jamie Gillan was backmost with the squad Thursday blasting punts disconnected the ceiling of their indoor fieldhouse during signifier aft getting stuck successful London due to the fact that of a passport issue.

Gillan, a Scottish native, returned to the United States connected Wednesday nighttime aft the contented was resolved.

"He's free. Jamie's free," peculiar teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey joked. "He got backmost past nighttime astir apt astir 10 o'clock, immoderate it was. But he's good. He's acceptable to rock."

Gillan said helium had to get his passport, P1 visa (specifically for athletes), extended successful bid to get backmost successful the country. It was thing that could lone beryllium handled successful person.

They knew it would instrumentality immoderate time.

"Humongous acknowledgment to the Giants enactment and Laurie Tisch for allowing that to hap and talking to the close people," Gillan said. "And the radical astatine the U.S. Embassy, fantastic radical there. They were truly adjuvant determination due to the fact that determination is paperwork rather agelong and involved.

"We had a extremity to get maine backmost successful 2 days and we did. So we did it and I'm backmost there."

Tisch is the sister of Steve Tisch, the president and enforcement vice president of the Giants. She assisted successful expediting the process.

In the meantime, Gillan got to walk a fewer other days with his family. He was enactment up successful an Airbnb successful London. They ordered food, helium snuck successful a workout and studied movie connected his team-issued iPad.

The Giants were hopeful each on that Gillan would instrumentality good successful beforehand of Sunday's matchup with the Baltimore Ravens. They didn't enactment retired immoderate punters, but did person a contingency program successful place, conscionable successful lawsuit it took longer than expected.

"Oh yeah. You ever do," McGaughey said. "When you woody with that benignant of worldly - embassies, and policies and NATO visas and - you ne'er cognize what'll happen. We had a contingency plan. We had a program anterior to. So, we were ready."

Gillan was insistent they knew his passport was an obstacle they would brushwood anterior to the instrumentality trip. It was awkward not returning with the team, but helium made the champion of the situation.

It was an contented that would person needed addressing astatine immoderate point.

"If we weren't going to London this twelvemonth I wouldn't person done that until aft the season," Gillan said. "But, hey, it's what happened. It was fine."

Now, he's backmost to work, having lone missed 1 time due to the fact that Giants players were disconnected Monday and Tuesday. He was successful the gathering by Thursday morning.

Jetlag shouldn't beryllium a occupation with the crippled inactive respective days away.

"No. It's fine," Gillan said. "Figure it out. Get immoderate caffeine and stuff."

Gillan has averaged 51.0 yards (fourth successful the NFL) connected 21 punts this season.