Defining Moments of the 2011 NFL Season
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Remembering 9/11
Teams unfurled field-size flags. The NFL curtailed its uniform policy to allow players, such as the Bears' Lance Briggs, to wear special spikes or gloves. And although football eventually took center stage, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks -- the opening Sunday of the NFL season -- the league offered a national remembrance for those who died in the Sept. 11 attacks




