Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most harrowing days in American history: the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Like many people, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick remembers where he was and what he was doing at the time.
“We were game-planning that day on Tuesday,” he told reporters on Friday morning, preparing for a division rivalry game against the New York Jets scheduled that weekend. “Then everything obviously changed quickly.”
The Patriots, like everyone else in America, sat through a heartbreaking day of huddling around televisions as the terrible news about the attacks that leveled the World Trade Center towers, hit the Pentagon, and killed passengers in Pennsylvania trickled in.