September 11th 2001

[Bjornebye]

43 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

Assumed i'd seen every bit of footage of the 2nd plane until yesterday, when i saw this. Pretty mind blowing.

The fella saying "My Lord" every two seconds can get a bit irritating though.

 

 

George Harrison was there? 

[Bjornebye]

Jesus just watched that, fucking hell. In a morbid way I've always wondered if anyone in the offices happened to be looking out the window and saw one of them coming straight at them. 

[Mudface]

6 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Jesus just watched that, fucking hell. In a morbid way I've always wondered if anyone in the offices happened to be looking out the window and saw one of them coming straight at them. 

 

One of the interviewees in that documentary series did just that.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Mudface said:

 

One of the interviewees in that documentary series did just that.

 

I mean one on the floors that took the direct hit. 

[Total Longo]

A fella called Stanley Praimnath (?) said the plane hit the floor above him and he watched it grow from a dot to right upon him and was frozen to the spot. You just can't imagine it can you?  

[Bjornebye]

8 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

A fella called Stanley Praimnath (?) said the plane hit the floor above him and he watched it grow from a dot to right upon him and was frozen to the spot. You just can't imagine it can you?  

 

One of the luckiest men alive then 

[Mudface]

37 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

A fella called Stanley Praimnath (?) said the plane hit the floor above him and he watched it grow from a dot to right upon him and was frozen to the spot. You just can't imagine it can you?  

 

28 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

One of the luckiest men alive then 

 

Yep, that was the guy in the documentary. 

[Harry Squatter]

"It's all gone kid"

[Red74]

I was at the Pentagon the other week and there’s no way they had the space to bring a plane in at ground level to smash into that side of it. 
 

Im basing this on the 30 seconds we had to look at it before the increasingly panicking Uber driver asked us wtf did we think we were doing taking photos and to get back in before the black SUV’s surrounded us. We adjusted the booking to take us to Arlington cem in case he abandoned us. 

[Total Longo]

On 15/09/2023 at 23:09, Harry Squatter said:

"It's all gone kid"

Isn't that Deacon Blue? 

 

[redheart]

On the recommendation of people on here I watched 911 One Day In America.

 

One of the most absorbing and impactful things that I have ever watched. Parts heartbreaking and parts uplifting.

 

That Irish guy with the "good suit." He managed to survive and get out with someone he helped out.

 

Then he took a call telling him his sister and niece were in one of the planes that were crashed into the towers

[Jennings]

In the gas leak clip they all take it in turns to say "Holy shit!".

[Kevin D]

4 hours ago, redheart said:

On the recommendation of people on here I watched 911 One Day In America.

 

One of the most absorbing and impactful things that I have ever watched. Parts heartbreaking and parts uplifting.

 

That Irish guy with the "good suit." He managed to survive and get out with someone he helped out.

 

Then he took a call telling him his sister and niece were in one of the planes that were crashed into the towers

Fair play to @sh#t waffle for bringing it up, genuinely one of the most incredible shouts ever on this forum.

[Mudface]

40 minutes ago, Kevin D said:

Fair play to @sh#t waffle for bringing it up, genuinely one of the most incredible shouts ever on this forum.

 

He's certainly enriched all our lives, great stuff from a top poster.

[Kevin D]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/american-football/2023/12/08/buffalo-bills-head-coach-sean-mcdermott-911-hijackers/
 

The head coach of American football team Buffalo Bills used the September 11 hijackers as an example of teamwork in a talk with his players.

 

Sean McDermott has publicly apologised for making the reference during a training camp four years ago and insisted that he “immediately” said sorry to his team after doing so.

 

McDermott’s admission followed a report accusing him of having “cited the hijackers as a group of people who were all able to get on the same page to orchestrate attacks to perfection”.

 

It also alleged he quizzed his players about what obstacles the attackers had faced during what was America’s worst terrorist atrocity, in which 3,000 people were killed when several passenger planes were hijacked and crashed into the likes of the World Trade Center in New York.

 

“What tactics do you think they used to come together?”, McDermott asked his players, according to US journalist and blogger Tyler Dunne, who said they were stunned by the “strange” comments, with one left “horrified”.

Upon being confronted with the allegations, McDermott admitted he “didn’t do a good enough job of communicating clearly the intent of my message”.

 

He said: “My intent in the meeting that day was to discuss the importance of communication and being on the same page with the team.

 

“I regretted mentioning 9/11 in my message that day, and I immediately apologised to the team.

 

“Not only was 9/11 a horrific event in our country’s history, but a day that I lost a good family friend.”

 

He added: “If anyone misinterpreted or didn’t understand my message, I apologise.

“That was about the importance of communication and that everyone needs to be on the same page, ironically enough. So that was important to me then and still is now.”

 

McDermott also allegedly perplexed players during a team talk when he discussed the attempted rescue of a woman who died after driving into the river by Niagara Falls in December 2021.

 

Dunne wrote: “The coach explained how members from the coast guard did everything they could to save the woman. He built up the drama. Players held on tight for an inspiring apex, and... nothing. He said the woman died. End of story.”

 

The accusations against McDermott were made by Dunne in a lengthy series of blog posts about Buffalo Bills and their alleged McDermott “problem”.

 

Dunne said he had spoken to multiple anonymous players and sources, with one claiming the coach was “awkward” and lacking in social skills.

 

McDermott told a press conference he did not want to comment on other alleged issues raised in Dunne’s article.

 

 

 

[polymerpunkah]

Eugene McCarthy (a US politician) quote:

 

“Being in politics is like being a [US] football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important. ”

 

He wasn't wrong, about either.