Two-hour special featuring Pete Davidson, Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Crystal, Robin Roberts and more airs Sept. 1 on ABC, Disney+ and Hulu
\n\nMichael Strahan was a little more than halfway through his NFL career when 9/11 happened. The defensive end spent all 15 seasons of his pro football career with the New York Giants.
\n\nOne ominous moment from that catastrophic period that Strahan will never forget took place on the Giants’ practice field outside MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The World Trade Center’s twin towers, just across the Hudson River in lower Manhattan, were easily spotted from the stadium. Until they weren’t.
\n\nBut the sudden change in the skyline wasn’t the only haunting sign of what had been lost.
\n\n“I remember seeing cars – a parking lot full of cars for people who were never coming back to claim those cars,” Strahan recalls of the area around the stadium. “It was something that just smacked you in the face.”
\n\nAs the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Strahan was motivated by his memories to pursue a different kind of 9/11 retrospective special, ABC News’ “9/11: United We Stand – 25 Years…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/