Security at the Sugar Bowl will be beefed up to Super Bowl levels in the wake of the incident, New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Thursday. Terrorist attack On Bourbon Street.
Sugar bowl between Georgia Bulldogs Notre Dame was postponed to 4pm ET Thursday evening after originally scheduled for Wednesday night.
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New Orleans Police and federal agents investigate a suspected terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
New Orleans Police and federal agents investigate a suspected terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
Kirkpatrick appeared “Today” program on NBC He presented and gave some thoughts about security.
“We will have hundreds of officers and employees lining our streets,” Kirkpatrick said, pointing to Bourbon Street as one of the places where security will be beefed up.
“We are working at the same level if not more than we were prepared for the Super Bowl.”
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New Orleans Police and federal agents investigate a suspected terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)
Super Bowl Lex is scheduled to happen in February at Caesars Superdome — the same location where the Sugar Bowl is scheduled to begin.
The Superdome was also the host site of the Super Bowl held after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Police officers and snipers were seen atop high-rise buildings and the Superdome itself.
Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley said Wednesday that “public safety is of the utmost importance.”
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry He said he was going Being in the Sugar Bowl is a message to fans who were on the fence about going.
An exterior general aerial view of Caesars Superdome on Sunday, December 15, 2024 in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman)
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“I'll tell you one thing: Your governor will be there,” Landry said. “And this is proof, believe me, that this facility and this city is safer today than it was yesterday.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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