9/11 ten years later: What would big stories in Denver have been if the world hadn't changed?

By Michael Roberts Wed., Sep. 7 2011 at 7:10 AM

Categories: News

Ed McCaffrey.

2. Snap to it.
Years after his retirement, Ed McCaffrey continues to be a favorite of Broncos fans -- but he was even more of an icon in 2001. So fans were thunderstruck when he broke his leg in gruesome fashion during the very first game of the season, before a national television audience (more on that in the top selection). Anecdote: At the time, McCaffrey's son attended a school at which my wife was assistant principal -- and while the rest of the nation was grappling with 9/11, he was dealing with his dad's hospitalization. For his part, McCaffrey didn't learn about what happened in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania until he emerged from surgery.

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Stephen At Half Aspen

The world did not change, we did. We let the terrorist change our country for the worst and they did so by using our own hands. The carnage they caused is nothing compared to what we've done to ourselves.

Marcus Rose

I was living in Las Vegas at the time and for some reason did not turn the news on while getting ready for work. I pulled out of my garage and put on KOMP 92.3fm and instead of music, the morning show djs were talking about a breaking news story out of New York and that someone was calling from there giving a detailed description of the events taking place. I must have blown through 5 traffic lights trying to get to work to see a television.... The whole rest of the day was spent inside a doctors lounge at the hospital I worked at just watching in awe! I pray I never live to see Anything so horrific again.

Paul Vincent Saurini

Well, maybe the war barons.

Paul Vincent Saurini

To be honest with you, nobody is a winner. Nobody wins.

Paul Vincent Saurini

Not only americans should be remembered, but every innocent life on every side that has been unwittingly and undeservingly caught up in the mayhem.

Paul Vincent Saurini

I was stranded by the attacks in L.A. having flown there that week. I kept my rental car and drove home through Vegas. It was surreal because the jovial fun you usually hear in Las Vagas was nowhere. Everyone out and about was quiet and looking at each other in a strange way. I was in Cali that week researching the possibility of moving there and what happened had a serious impact on my plans. I hate saying that Osama Bin Laden changed the outcome of my life. Fortunately though, I still feel like I've lived my own destiny. The attack cost us much in freedom. We're not better off and we'll still pay the price for that horrible act for decades to come. 911 was used as a phony pretext to invade Iraq. How many Iraqi people were killed? How many millions were displaced? 911 caused the United States to hurt more innocent people as a response than those who were hurt on 911 in the first place. The Bush Doctrine is tyrannical to the world. I find it even more fascinating and ironic that this mayhem was bought and payed for by cash that didn't really exist to be spent. Osama Bin Laden and the WAR BARONS WIN!!!!!!!!