NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Higgins doesn’t watch the 9/11 television specials. Never has, and probably never will.
The memories are all too clear for the Jets’ vice president of business operations. At the time of the terrorist attacks, he was Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s press secretary, and helping manage the crisis was part of his daily routine.
He arranged for foreign leaders — people such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Mexico’s Felipe Calderon — to see the World Trade Center site firsthand. “I went there with presidents from all over the world,” Higgins tells The Associated Press. “But I spent a lot of that time in a haze.”
Ten years later, Higgins reflects on those days and is helping put together a night of commemorative events during the Jets’ season opener Sunday night.
