It seemed like nothing was off limits Sunday night during Tom Brady’s roast on Netflix.
Not even 9/11.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion made a joke alluding to 9/11 when he referenced Drew Bledsoe getting injured against the Jets on Sept. 23, 2001, the play that launched Brady’s career.
“Like the rest of America, I’ll always remember where I was that fateful day in September of 2001, when tragically, those two Jets slammed into Drew Bledsoe,” Brady said during the roast in Los Angeles, as the camera cut to a laughing Bledsoe.
In the fourth quarter of that game in Foxborough, Bledsoe scrambled to his right and tried to take it himself for a first down, but he got rocked by a Mo Lewis hit as Shaun Ellis grabbed his ankle from behind.
Bledsoe had a torn blood vessel in his chest and was bleeding internally. Doctors had to insert a tube into his chest to drain the bleeding.
That game took place 12 days after the September 11 attacks in which terrorists hijacked commercial planes and crashed two of them into the Twin Towers, killing nearly 3,000 people.
The NFL postponed its Week 2 games that were scheduled days after the attacks, playing them the weekend of January 6, so the Sept. 23 games were the first since the attacks.
Brady took his jabs at the end of the night after sitting through hours of jokes about him, including one from Bledsoe about his divorce from Gisele Bündchen.
Kevin Hart also took shots at Brady about the divorce, and Nikki Glaser destroyed Brady for leaving Bridget Moynahan while she was pregnant.