The Sugar Bowl, one of the most anticipated football games of the year, was postponed twenty-four hours after dozens of people were killed in a horrific New Year’s Eve attack in New Orleans, the site of a major CFB quarterfinal tilt.
Jeff HundleyThe Sugar Bowl’s executive director announced Wednesday morning that the football game between the University of Georgia and No. 7 seed Notre Dame will begin Thursday night before 8 p.m. local time, after consulting Wednesday night as scheduled. teams, TV network, etc.
“All parties and everyone agrees that it is in everyone’s best interest and public safety that we postpone the game for 24 hours,” Hundley said.
The decision comes after a man intentionally drove his car into a crowd celebrating New Year’s Eve on Bourbon Street, killing at least 10 people and injuring 35 others, according to the FBI.
“This man was trying to run over as many people as he could.” Anne KirkpatrickWednesday, New Orleans PD Sgt.
The bureau says a 42-year-old man is believed to have carried out the attack Shamsood-Dean Jabbaris being investigated as a terrorist act.
No one in NOLA wanted to cancel the game, but at the end of the day, keeping people safe was clearly the priority, according to Congressman Troy Carter From Louisiana.
“The football game is important, it’s an important event,” Carter said. “People have come from all over the country, but nothing is more important than public safety and making sure we are protecting citizens and visitors.”
The game will still be played at the Caesars Superdome … just a mile from the site of the attack.
