Remembering 9/11/01

[house18]

As I watch the the memorials for the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks It made me wonder what other people on this board have soccer related memories of that horrible day. I was coaching college soccer at the time and was planning on going to our office to make a highlight/motivational video for our weekend road trip but when I saw what was happening I stayed home and watched the tv coverage from around 9am until I left for practice at 2pm. Fortunately we only had one student-athlete with a relative involved and she was fine. Our practice field, as well as our game field were directly in flight paths from our airport and it was very strange that day and the next couple of days to not hear a single plane fly over. Somehow the rest of the season whenever we had a home game a plane would fly over during the national anthem, almost as a reminder. Whenever I think about that terrible day I will always think about that team and my fellow coaches that I shared such deep emotions with. May whatever higher being you believe in bless America and our allies.

[MikeyPez]

I was in Ecuador, it sucked but really didn't phase me.

[Joey BoomBotz]

This is how I feel: http://b.rox.com/relationships/everpax/images/who-cares.jpg

[bostonsoccermdl]

and you live in NYC too... pure class

[roarksown1]

Originally posted by Joey BoomBotz
This is how I feel: http://b.rox.com/relationships/everpax/images/who-cares.jpg

How ironic supporting the French NT. Go frog yourself.

[RichardL]

I went to see Reading v West Ham in the League cup. Full house. Amazing game (a 0-0 draw, but with 47 shots, then a victory on sudden death pens for Reading) with an amazing atmosphere - which was quite strange as other than the game there was only one topic of conversation. Even the supporters club bar, which normally has sky sports on, was showing the news instead. In fact, thinking back, except during the match itself, nobody really even talked about the game.

I've no doubt it was different over here. It was less personal and people weren't emotionally involved. I just remember work just stopped when first person (me as it turned out) managed to get on to a news site and saw the first picture of what a few had heard about "some plane hitting the twin towers". From the moment that picture came up on the page it was clear that this was the biggest single news story since..well I don't know, since most people were born. It sounds callous, but in some ways people can't handle seeing several thousand people die - it's too much to take in and it doesn't have the emotional impact it should. And although it's terrible to admit it, there was a morbid curiosity about it. It was FOX news on show in the supporters bar and their news coverage was commentary over a 60 second loop of "highlights" of the events of the day. They'd never show someone being killed by being shot in the head or dying clearly on camera in a car crash, as that'd be too nasty, but 3000 dying in a collapsing building is fine. Several hundred dying in an instant is fine for TV as you can't see them dying (and who's ever seen an actual plane crash before?). Even people jumping to their death was fine, as long as the camera cut away before they hit the ground.

[RichardL]

Originally posted by roarksown1
How ironic supporting the French NT. Go frog yourself.

oh yeah, because the French celebrated it didn't they :rolleyes:

[fishbiproduct]

Originally posted by roarksown1
How ironic supporting the French NT. Go frog yourself.

With 1200+ posts on this board, you don't
know what a troll is?

[Thriller]

Soccer events related?: Real Madrid didn´t stop playing their game for that, and I agree, cause if you´re going to stop your work for any tragedy that happens in this world, man!
I remember complains about not cancelling Real Madrid´s game due to US tragedy, but wonder how many times US events stop every time there´s a tragedy outsidehttp://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/sad/nixweiss.gif
You see you´re not the only one or the most important

[roarksown1]

Originally posted by fishbiproduct
With 1200+ posts on this board, you don't
know what a troll is?

Someone talks about 3,000 people dying and its relevance and this guy says, "Who cares?" I don't think I'm a troll - I'm a f#C@!$# martyr.

[house18]

I started this thread because 9/11 was very soccer related for me and I wondered what other soccer related things people had, such as a moment of silence at a game or being at a game that day or being a player and practicing or playing that day. Perhaps even knowing someone who died that you played with or who was a big fan of a team. It's sad that some of you are too immature to have a serious discussion, about anything related to the real world. Please don't post on this thread unless it is a meaningfull soccer related memory of that horrible day.

[SABuffalo786]

Originally posted by Thriller
Soccer events related?: Real Madrid didn´t stop playing their game for that, and I agree, cause if you´re going to stop your work for any tragedy that happens in this world, man!
I remember complains about not cancelling Real Madrid´s game due to US tragedy, but wonder how many times US events stop every time there´s a tragedy outsidehttp://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/sad/nixweiss.gif
You see you´re not the only one or the most important

When's the last time over 3,000 people were simutaneously murdered at one time?


If this happened in Madrid or London or Paris, we would DEFINITLEY care. And we'd go help bomb the people who did it to you.

[SABuffalo786]

Originally posted by Joey BoomBotz
This is how I feel: http://b.rox.com/relationships/everpax/images/who-cares.jpg

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ww2/liberation.jpg


You're welcome.

[O'Dubhghaill Rules!]

I was a sophomore in high school...I remember being in Italian class when someone came in and told us to turn on the TV. I even remember the entire day and what happened in each class...2nd plane crashed in Italian, towers collapsed and news about the Pentagon in History, a bunch of speeches and rumors of the State Department being bombed and about the 'missing plane' which ended up in PA during my Spanish class. I watched TV in all of my classes for the rest of the day...there were people leaving because they knew someone from NYC or knew someone who was flying out of Logan that day...my soccer game was postponed and I didn't get any homework so I went home and watched it on TV until about 11...I kept my radio on all night and woke up every now and then hearing about how maybe someone had been rescued...then I woke up the next morning and thought 'holy shitt this all really happened.'

The main soccer related thing was watching the Champions League (Arsenal maybe?) the next day which showed a match from the 11th, since the games on the 12th were postponed, and seeing consoling signs from the British fans.

[AFCA]

IMO this doesn't belong here + it makes very little sense = I don't really care either.

Pardon my french (le haha)

[RoverMax]

I think it is sad how people have forgotten so quickly. Today I never really heard anything about it being 9/11, and I LIVE ON THE SAME ISLAND AS THE WTC! I know people who had to move because of the attack, and I know people who lost friends and family members on this day (although I didn't know any of the victims). It is two years later, but by the way people are acting about it, you would think it is 32 years after.

[Tmagic77]

Originally posted by AFCA
IMO this doesn't belong here + it makes very little sense = I don't really care either.

Pardon my french (le haha)

I must be reading this wrong. Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but are you laughing at what happened?

[Soccernova78]

Originally posted by AFCA
IMO this doesn't belong here + it makes very little sense = I don't really care either.

Pardon my french (le haha)

Hey SABuffalo786, if you by chance have a picture of American paratroopers fighting to liberate Eindhoven and Nijmegen during WWII insert it here.

Talk about ungrateful. :(

[usscouse]

Originally posted by USAMax34
I think it is sad how people have forgotten so quickly. Today I never really heard anything about it being 9/11, and I LIVE ON THE SAME ISLAND AS THE WTC! I know people who had to move because of the attack, and I know people who lost friends and family members on this day (although I didn't know any of the victims). It is two years later, but by the way people are acting about it, you would think it is 32 years after.
I put up the US and the Jack this morning. I haven't forgotten.

There are a lot of silly children who didn't quite realize the enormity of what happened and their attitude reflects it. It was like a video game to them.

The frogs and the dutch spent a lot of time helping Hitler out by sending "their" jews to the death camps. (Read or watch, "The Sorrow and The Pity")

Why should the idiot grandchildren of these people care of what happened last year over 3,000 miles away.

[AFCA]

Originally posted by Tmagic77
I must be reading this wrong. Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but are you laughing at what happened?

No you're reading it wrong. Le haha was directed at the pardon my french... with the whole freedom fries thing and such.



Soccernova please :rolleyes: