Brad Wing is known as the Giants’ “Australian” punter since that’s where he was born. His accent certainly does little to discredit that title. But if you look at the team’s roster and scan to Wing’s hometown, you’ll find a place that isn’t so much down-under as it is, at least recently, under water.
In 2009, at the age of 18, Wing and his family moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and it’s where his relatives and three-year-old son still live. They’ve been spared the brunt of the devastating floods that have destroyed much of the city and surrounding area this month, but Wing said he has plenty of friends in the area who have literally lost everything they own to the natural disaster.