Giants lost to the Broncos on the season opening Monday Night game. Who could have known just hours after going to sleep that night that the world as we know it would change forever. I was down there in lower Manhattan that morning, just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center when the horror of that day began to unfold. How ironic that the Giants season opener on the day after the 20th anniversary of 9/11 is against the Denver Broncos. Let us never forget
Yep. Still counts.
I wasn't in NY but will never forget how that day unfolded for me, the country and the world really.
Thank you
I wasn't in NY but will never forget how that day unfolded for me, the country and the world really.
The Giants playing the AFC West happens every five years or so. So, yes, it is ironic that the Giants and Broncos are on the schedule to play this year. Once that was the case, the NFL made sure these two teams would play each other for the anniversary.
I gotta say that was one of the best stadiums (along with sports fandom atmosphere) that I've ever been to.
Thanks for bringing this game up. Funny how the Giants/Broncos matchups, infrequent as they are, contain several memorable games, from the Super Bowl to the 2005 upset with Eli’s first great performance. And this 2001 loss.
Not only do I remember that night but I remember every day starting from that weekend Saturday September 8th right through the whole event. Who and where my high school football team played, where I went for ice cream that weekend. The whole time period is etched into my memory forever.
In 1st period Lit class our vice principal came in the room to fill in for our teacher who had to leave because her mother was sick. As he came in the room he told us about the first plane within the context of it being just a terrible accident (in fairness I think all of us thought that) and asked us to pray for the victims. It was until the morning unfolded that we knew what we were in for. I literally watched the World Trade Center crumble to the ground in 4th period senior year history class.
The thing I can never forget was watching a woman who worked at my high school race to her car in the parking lot because her husband worked there. They found him in the pile months later. I'm still sick over it. I'm not one for crying but this time of year makes me tear up every time it comes around. No one deserves what those people suffered through that morning. God bless their souls.
Thanks for bringing this game up. Funny how the Giants/Broncos matchups, infrequent as they are, contain several memorable games, from the Super Bowl to the 2005 upset with Eli’s first great performance. And this 2001 loss.
Not to mention Kent Graham hitting Toomer to beat the undefeated Broncos.
Thanks for bringing this game up. Funny how the Giants/Broncos matchups, infrequent as they are, contain several memorable games, from the Super Bowl to the 2005 upset with Eli’s first great performance. And this 2001 loss.
And the 1998 Upset of the 13-0 Broncos. Toomer TD..Or, am I thinking of another year?
Turned on car radio to listen to news and...
I guess maybe because I was 14, I thought the Giants were going to win by two possessions ... Not lose by two possessions.
Ah the days when 7-9 was unacceptable.
That 2001 MNF eagle game was awful. Another game the eagles had no business winning and yet the Giants are playing all cute the entire night and pay for it in the end.
Next morning I got on the PATH train headed for the Trade Center right at 8:45 or so.
What is the title of that thread? I joined a few years later
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What's crazy was Williams didn't even contact the leg. Looks like it just broke from the force of the impact to the chest/body.
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Unfortunately, it's not the entire thread. It existed in the archives for a long time, but I think it got lost in the transition of servers or something similar.
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there is an Archived thread about 9/11. It ran for over a week. There’s some poignant stuff on there. Worth everyone’s time.
What is the title of that thread? I joined a few years later
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there is an Archived thread about 9/11. It ran for over a week. There’s some poignant stuff on there. Worth everyone’s time.
What is the title of that thread? I joined a few years later
It was something like "What's going on in Lower Manhattan"
I tried searching unsuccessfully, If someone could provide a link I would really appreciate it.
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Wow
Now I realized that we play the Broncos as a 9/11 tribute.
Thank you
Oh me too. I came to work early the next morning really pissed off about that loss only obviously a few hours later more important things were going on that quickly put the game out of my mind.
The entire 2001 season was so overshadowed by 9/11 I really don't remember too much about it other than a few games here and there. They also had post-super bowl season hangover and the offensive line got old quick since 2000.
You’re all over it!
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went into work late the next day
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I was on the last Path train from NJ to pull into the WTC. They didn’t let us off and took us back to exchange place. So I was going to walk over to take the ferry. When I walked outside everyone started to scream and we watched the second plane hit from Jersey City
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went into work late the next day
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I was on the last Path train from NJ to pull into the WTC. They didn’t let us off and took us back to exchange place. So I was going to walk over to take the ferry. When I walked outside everyone started to scream and we watched the second plane hit from Jersey City
When I was coming in to work (late) they were still sending subways downtown at around 9:45 or so. I was on the 4-5. They were crawling, and the conductor said there was congestion because of a "smoke condition."
I wish they turned ours back. I got out at City Hall in a huge crowd and saw the towers on fire. Cell phones weren't working so I was looking for a payphone to call my wife to tell her to get out of there (she worked on Broadway and Church, but was already walking north to Canal at the time).
While on line for a phone on Fulton Street I heard them the first tower start to fall and ran for the Seaport and waited on the pier that the tall ships are on. The brightest sunny day instantly turned to dusk with dust and clumps of stuff floaty stuff, we were right in the path of the cloud. Luckily a guy working on a sailboat handed out face masks (the K95 type, I now know).
I saw everything on TV live. End of second period, first plane hit and then went to third, moved to another room and second plane hit and both buildings fell.
One friend at lunch the next period didn't know anything about the events of that day. I thought he was fucking around.
My wife worked with a bunch of the Cantor folks in her job as an equity analyst. So many of them gone, she still talks about them...
That day was spent learning an important lesson about life, our passions, and what really matters most.
I'm still amazed at the bravery of the first responders that day and have to remind myself from time to time that this is what they do for us every day. Thanks for all who serve in such capacities.