The NFL Will Remember 9/11 in All the Wrong Ways
Submitted on September 6, 2011
By Dave Zirin - September 6, 2011
Ten years ago, on the first Sunday after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the [National Football League] did something truly heroic and generous: nothing...As 9/11 morphed into a decade-long “Global War on Terror,” the league has, to put it mildly, failed to show similar restraint. From the now ubiquitous presence of military flyovers and honor guards at every game, to the armed forces recruitment stations set up outside pre-season contests...the league has treated our era of endless war as an odious exercise in corporate branding.
