The Dallas Cowboys are traveling to New York City a day earlier than normal in order to visit Ground Zero and the new One World Trade Center that opened this year.
According to Shelise Manza Young of Yahoo Sports, the trip is Dallas coach Jason Garrett’s idea. When the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened, Garrett was the Giants backup quarterback so he has a more personal connection to the fateful day.
“The response from everybody in that area and really all across our country, and to a certain extent across the world, to that tragedy was really amazing — the response to that terrible adversity.