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It is still a game about blocking and tackling and, as the first weekend of the regular season again validated, about great players making great plays.
But the coaching staffs of all 32 NFL teams didn't need to don those white golf shirts, the ones with "9-11" emblazoned under the pocket patch on the right side, to conjure up memories of the events of a year ago. And while the spirit of patriotism ran at an all-time high for the opening of this country's preferred viewing pastime, the American flags that covered playing fields for pregame and halftime shows weren't necessary to remind spectators that stadiums were dark and padlocked for a late summer weekend in 2001.
But the coaching staffs of all 32 NFL teams didn't need to don those white golf shirts, the ones with "9-11" emblazoned under the pocket patch on the right side, to conjure up memories of the events of a year ago. And while the spirit of patriotism ran at an all-time high for the opening of this country's preferred viewing pastime, the American flags that covered playing fields for pregame and halftime shows weren't necessary to remind spectators that stadiums were dark and padlocked for a late summer weekend in 2001.
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