EAST RUTHERFORD-Those gathered at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center on Thursday morning into afternoon expected to discuss tackling, passing, conditioning, and other football training camp topics as they descended upon the facility for the first day of the New York Giants’ summer preparation.
What they got instead was a dose of Rudyard Kipling and a story of a lion that Time-Life called “the country’s reigning sex simba.”
Both were referenced by Giants head coach Ben McAdoo during his first remarks of camp, as players aged 25 and younger were presented the poem “If-” by Kipling, while all others were told the story of Frasier the Lion.