“I barely slept that night and I just wanted to drive south, pick up my family in New York. He reported to practice in Foxboro the next day, but football was not his focus. It wasn’t until Tuesday night that Andruzzi received a phone call from his father telling him that his three brothers had survived the attacks and their aftermath. “Those guys are heroes, running toward the tragedy instead of running away.” Once that happened, they stopped, turned around and went back,” said Andruzzi. “He remembers just running out of that building and the cloud of smoke chasing them. They made it down to the lobby and then the walls around them, the towers are all marble, he said they were just cracking around them. “It was just a feeling I had and come to find out that my brother Jimmy was one of the first responders and made it to the 25 th floor until one of his colleagues had chest pains.
I had a gut feeling that one of my brothers was there,” Andruzzi recalled in a sitdown interview with WBZ-TV’s Steve Burton. READ MORE: Sydney Segal Says It Was An 'Honor For America' To Watch Her Compete On 'Survivor 41'Īndruzzi’s three brothers were all New York City firefighters at the time, and he remembers the long and arduous wait to hear if they had survived the attacks on the Twin Towers. For former Patriots offensive lineman Joe Andruzzi, it was one of the most difficult days of his life. That is a common reaction when people reflect on the tragic events of 9/11. BOSTON (CBS) - “I remember that day like it was yesterday.”
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