Alabama Senator and former faculty soccer coach Tommy Tuberville launched an announcement on Friday expressing his frustration with the presentation of the Sugar Bowl on Thursday, in the future after a lethal terror assault in New Orleans killed a minimum of 14 harmless folks.Â
Tuberville, who coached in three Sugar Bowls, together with two as the pinnacle coach of Auburn, known as out ESPN for not broadcasting the nationwide anthem earlier than the sport and as a substitute airing a controversial video message by Allstate CEO Tom Wilson, who urged People to “overcome dependancy to divisiveness.”Â
“It was my distinct honor to have coached in three Sugar Bowls throughout my teaching profession. American sports activities, and particularly faculty soccer, have at all times been a patriotic custom that brings ALL AMERICANS collectively. Sadly, ESPN (who’s owned by Disney) gave in to the woke mob final night time by REFUSING to air the Nationwide Anthem and as a substitute performed a video of the Allstate CEO speaking about ‘divisiveness.’ But, he did not condemn the terrorist who brutally killed [14+] folks,” Tuberville stated. Â
“This was an opportunity for us all to return collectively. However as a substitute of honoring the harmless lives misplaced, these woke companies bowed to terrorists.”
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Then-Auburn College Head Soccer Coach Tommy Tuberville teaching at Jordan-Hare stadium in Auburn, Alabama. (Todd Van Emst)
Tuberville then referenced President-elect Trump’s current electoral victory as proof that People are finished with “woke ideology.”
“November fifth was a mandate from the American folks. Woke ideology misplaced. Get on board with America First or get out,” Tuberville stated.Â
Notre Dame defeated Georgia 23-10, however a lot of the dialogue throughout the sport was centered on Wilson’s controversial video assertion. Allstate, the official company sponsor, and Wilson have come below hearth throughout social media for the assertion, and the video has since been deleted from official Allstate pages.Â
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A normal view throughout the nationwide anthem earlier than the 2024 Sugar Bowl faculty soccer playoff semifinal sport between the Texas Longhorns and the Washington Huskies at Caesars Superdome. (Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports activities)
Allstate supplied an announcement to Fox Information Digital on the assertion.Â
“To be clear, Allstate CEO Tom Wilson unequivocally condemns this heinous act of terrorism and violence in all varieties. We stand with the households of the victims, their family members and the neighborhood of New Orleans. The reference to overcoming divisiveness and negativity displays a broader dedication to fostering belief and positivity in communities throughout the nation,” the assertion learn.
The suspected attacker has been recognized as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The FBI is working to find out Jabbar’s “potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations,” after an ISIS flag was discovered affixed to the truck.
Jabbar’s youthful brother instructed the New York Occasions that he and his Military veteran brother had been raised Christian in Beaumont, Texas, earlier than the now-deceased attacker transformed to Islam as an grownup.
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Household and associates moved to determine the rising variety of victims after a terrorist suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, plowed a automobile into a big crowd in New Orleans on New 12 months’s.
“What he did doesn’t symbolize Islam,” the youthful brother stated. “That is extra some sort of radicalization, not faith.”
Retired FBI brokers Scott Duffey and Chris Swecker instructed Fox Information Digital that Wednesday’s assault might embolden ISIS, different terrorist teams or people who’ve been radicalized.
“This can be a time the place ISIS is below excessive stress and their existence is being threatened in Syria and elsewhere. It will make sense for them to double down on their message to radicalize People to place them into motion and activate any cells that they’ve in place,” Swecker stated.
The assault in New Orleans got here almost two weeks after a suspected terror assault on a Christmas market in Germany and the identical day that an explosion went off outdoors of Trump Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada.Â
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