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In the wake of the deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, Louisiana’s attorney general said she hoped the Sugar Bowl would get delayed an extra day.
The College Football Playoff game between Georgia and Notre Dame was originally scheduled for Wednesday but was pushed back one day after at least 15 people were killed — including a former Princeton football star — after a truck plowed through Bourbon Street as revelers celebrated at around 3:15 a.m.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” on Wednesday night that she would have preferred the football game get delayed at least until Friday.
“Not my decision, but I would like to see it delayed at least another day,” Murrill told the network. “If they asked my opinion, I would tell them that.”
Organizers of the Sugar Bowl — being held at the Caesar Superdome, which is about 1 mile away from the attack — decided to move the game to Thursday at 4 p.m. ET.
The winner of the game will play Penn State one week later on Jan. 9 in the Orange Bowl.
“We have been in consultation with ESPN, with the College Football Playoff, with the Southeastern Conference, with the University of Georgia, with Notre Dame. All parties and all agree that it’s in the best interest in everybody and public safety that we postpone the game for 24 hours,” Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.”
Notre Dame’s president, Rev. Robert Dowd, extended his thoughts to the families and first responders affected.
“To be in solidarity with those who suffer is to exemplify the spirit of Notre Dame. Today, we are in solidarity with all those impacted by this tragedy,” he wrote in a statement.
The FBI named Shamsud-Din Jabbar as the suspect in the deadly truck attack that also injured dozens of others.
He was later killed in a gunfight with authorities.
The bureau said that it did not believe Jabbar was “solely responsible” for the attack.
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