Ex-Navy SEAL makes big impression on Buffalo football team
Buffalo defensive end Damian Jackson has no expectation of growing emotional as he prepares for the final game of his college career next week. At 30, and having had a healthy share of real-life experiences during two tours of duty with the Navy SEALs, Jackson isn’t built that way.
news.yahoo.comNavy hosts Air Force as sports world remembers 9/11
— (AP) — Navy and Air Force have been playing each other in football since 1960, and this is the earliest the teams have ever met. Navy-Air Force on Saturday took center stage to some degree as the American sports world observed the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Burnett, a native of Minnesota, was one of the passengers on Flight 93, which crash-landed in rural Pennsylvania on 9/11. Mike Piazza and more than a dozen other Mets players from the 2001 team are also expected to attend. Piazza memorably hit a go-ahead homer for the Mets on Sept. 21, 2001, in the team’s first game back at Shea Stadium.
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