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Giants' Eli Manning recalls 2007 London trip, hilarious Brandon Jacobs story

EAST RUTHERFORD — The Giants do not have formal Friday practices under Ben McAdoo, so they will not need worry about getting on the field Friday in London mere hours after landing at Heathrow Airport.

But back in 2007, the last time the Giants played in the United Kingdom, then-head coach Tom Coughlin had his team practice the same day it arrived in town.

"It was not good," quarterback Eli Manning recalled on Tuesday. "It was not a pretty practice.

"Guys were just kind of in a [haze], didn't know where they were, or what was going on, what country they were in.