MORT'S WIFE GROUNDED

Neil Best

September 16, 2001

Placekicker Morten Andersen, a well-traveled adventurer who only recently signed with the Giants, was asleep in a Secaucus, N.J., hotel room when his wife called him on his cell phone. "She was supposed to come in on a flight at 9 a.m. A few minutes before she was supposed to board the plane, all the airports closed. She was going to come down for our two days off to look for a place to live. She called and said a plane crashed. I turned on CNN and saw the second plane plow into the World Trade Center, and from there, I was just like everyone else: shock, disbelief, anger, all the emotions you have when something like this happens. It was something unspeakable and incomprehensible. You can't make sense of it. It doesn't make sense to any rational human being. My twin brother [Jakob] from India called. He saw it on CNN and called me to make sure I was all right."