Notre Dame players, meanwhile, congregated with family and friends to watch the Rose Bowl and Ohio State’s defeat of the previously unbeaten No. 1 Oregon Ducks.
Moment of silence after Wednesday mornings terrorist attack. Followed by U-S-A chants @ATLNewsFirst pic.twitter.com/tXB2GRi0w9
They pushed back the contest to 4 p.m. ET on Thursday.
— Baillie Burmaster (@baillie_burm) January 2, 2025
The deadly attack prompted city, state and federal authorities, along with members of the Sugar Bowl committee, to postpone Wednesday’s game, which had been scheduled to kick off at 8:45 p.m. ET.
No football was played in the Big Easy on Wednesday, but it was still an exhausting and heartbreaking day.
As Marcus Freeman, Notre Dame’s head coach, told his team, it is “in the toughest moments that the culture of any program, of a nation, is revealed.
