Add The New York Post on Google Members of the NYPD, FDNY and PAPD, as well as family members of 9/11 victims, will be part of a wide-ranging and emotional pregame ceremony before the Giants-Cowboys primetime game.
New York City first responders will form a gauntlet for the team to run through during pregame introductions at MetLife Stadium, as a weekend of honoring those who lost their lives 25 years ago in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, reaches the “Sunday Night Football” audience.
A detail view of the American flag is seen during the national anthem prior to an NFL football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. Getty Images Other pregame tributes include:
Players and coaches from both teams will wear commemorative NYPD, FDNY and PAPD apparel and “Never Forget” T-shirts during warmups. A limited number of hats will be available in the team store on game day, with proceeds benefiting the respective first-responder agencies.
Ladder 343 — a ceremonial FDNY fire truck named to honor the 343 members of the FDNY who lost their lives on 9/11 — will welcome the crowd. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation will conclude its “Steel Across America” tour by displaying a steel beam from the World Trade Center outside the stadium gates.
Jesse Armstead, Tiki Barber, Kerry Collins and Jason Sehorn — all of whom were members of the 2001 Giants team that landed at Newark airport just a few hours before the hijackings — will join uniformed first responders in a “Go Big Blue” chant before kickoff.
The FDNY Ladder 15 and Engine 6 station house is decorated with flowers and memorial arrangements honoring those who died 20 years ago in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on September 10, 2021, in New York City. The FDNY lost 343 firefighters that day, including 14 from this station house on South Street in Lower Manhattan. Getty Images As of Thursday afternoon, the average purchase price for a Giants-Cowboys ticket was $369 — the highest for a Jets or Giants home game since at least 2011 — according to TickPick. The simultaneous get-in price was $242.
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The Giants again listed all 52 active players as full practice participants.
Head coach John Harbaugh, who balks at sharing injury information, did not disclose how Andrew Thomas (knee) ended up on the injury list after a healthy preseason.
The Giants have an empty roster spot. Will they fill it?
“At some point,” Harbaugh said,“when in it’s in the best interest of the team to do so.”
