College football is in the midst of a historic season.
This marks the first year of the 12-team playoff.
But College football fans were rocked by a horrific tragedy.
Major college football game was postponed for one terrifying reason
Sports are meant to be a form of escapism from the real world.
But sometimes sports and the real world collide.
That’s what happened on New Year’s Day when a deadly terror attack occurred in New Orleans, the site of college football’s Sugar Bowl.
The Sugar Bowl at the Superdome is one of the four sites of the quarterfinals in the inaugural season of the 12-team playoff.
The game was moved from Wednesday the 1st to Thursday the 2nd, with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame eventually besting the Georgia Bulldogs 23-10.
Fox News reported the game was “postponed just hours before kickoff on Wednesday after at least 10 people were killed and dozens more were injured in what federal officials are investigating as an act of terrorism. Allstate Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley spoke at a press conference with local and federal officials on Wednesday afternoon to confirm that the College Football Playoff quarterfinal game between Georgia and Notre Dame will be postponed for 24 hours.”
Hundley explained, “We wish we weren’t here for this reason today. The Sugar Bowl committee has a 90-year history of being a good corporate citizen for the city of New Orleans and that’s why this tragedy hurts us as much as anybody right now. Our condolences, thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families as we all work through this. . .All parties all agree that it’s in the best interests of everybody in public safety that we postpone the game for 24 hours. There’ll be more details on that in the coming hours, but for now, that’s the plan that we’re going to move forward and play the game [tomorrow.]”
The investigation into the terror attack is still ongoing.
Radicalized terrorist succeeded in postponing Sugar Bowl
Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, a 42-year-old from Texas who converted to Islam in his 20s, ran over innocent bystanders in New Orleans while flying the ISIS flag.
Abdur Jabbar, the killer’s younger brother, said that they were raised Christian before his brother converted.
“As far as I know, he was a Muslim for most of his life,” Abdur Jabbar told The New York Times. “What he did does not represent Islam. . .This is more some type of radicalization, not religion.”
Officials believe Jabbar acted alone, but that is still being investigated.
New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told reporters, “It was very intentional behavior. . .This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could . . . He was hellbent on creating the carnage that he did.”
Truck attacks by Islamic terrorists have become commonplace in Europe.
One recently occurred at a Christmas market in Germany.
ABC News reported, “Federal law enforcement and intelligence had warned police around the country that low-tech vehicle ramming was a key area of concern and that they needed to prepare.”
The Superdome is also the site of the Super Bowl in February, so security will most certainly be heightened.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
