WARE, England (AP) — New York Giants punter Jamie Gillan — whose nickname is the “Scottish Hammer” — took an unusual route to the NFL.
Before he celebrates a homecoming when the Giants face the Green Bay Packers on Sunday in London, he wanted to pay tribute to his alma mater, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
It’s a historically Black university — an HBCU — and Gillan had no idea what that meant when he accepted its scholarship offer. He thought it was “a sponsor or something.”
