 This was the bottom, right where he was supposed to be. After 11 months, Gastineau was released from Rikers. When he had been in the residential drug treatment program, he met congregants of Times Square Church, who invited him to attend a service there. Whenever Gastineau met people at the church, he introduced himself by saying, Mark Gastineau, New York Jets. He saw himself as who he had been, not who he could be, and this made him wonder if God or anyone else could love him.