On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Vinny Testaverde was sitting in the New York Jets' trainers' room getting treatment on his day off, when the terrorist attacks on New York City occurred 30 miles away at the World Trade Center.
For Testaverde, the starting quarterback and a native New Yorker, the event triggered profound emotions.
In a 20th-anniversary exclusive for ESPN, he recounts the indelible moments -- praying with neighbors in church, visiting rescue workers at Ground Zero and, a week later, discovering from a poster on a locker-room wall that one of his high school teammates had died in the disaster.