On Wednesday, Rutgers football and Miami toured the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, taking time to remember those who lost their lives in the most devastating terrorist attack in American history.
The trip to One World Observatory and then visiting the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is part of the lead-up to Thursday’s Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl. The visit’s purpose was to connect both programs involved in the game with the history of New York City.
Rutgers, the closest Power Five program to New York City, has visited the 9/11 Memorial and Museum on several other occasions.
The purpose of the memorial and museum is to remember those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001:
“As a monument to human dignity, courage, and sacrifice, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum honors the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993, recognizes the courage of those who survived, and salutes those who risked their lives to help others.”
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Every year, Rutgers honors the victims of the World Trade Center attacks. This year, head coach Greg Schiano spoke to the impact of that day and how he remembers learning about the terror attacks during his first stint as head coach at Rutgers.
“It’s very personal. I lost neighbors from when I grew up in North Jersey. Yeah, it was very personal,” Schiano said this past September.
“We were meeting. It was — we were meeting aon third down. I remember I was up at the board, drawing on the board and one of the assistants came in and said a small plane hit one of the towers, and then as we know, 10 minutes later or whatever it was, when everybody started to realize it wasn’t a small plane and the second plane hit.
“And we had a coach on the staff whose wife was working in New York, so he was scrambling, couldn’t get ahold of her. We had two players whose parents worked in the World Trade Center and by the grace of God didn’t go to work that day. We had a bunch of people who had, obviously, connections. It was scary.”
On Wednesday, the teams participated in the ringing of the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.