Philadelphia Eagles Invite Bourbon Street Terrorist Attack Survivor To Return To New Orleans For The Super Bowl

Honoring his brother. I know a lot's already happened in 2025 (and it's not even February yet), but the new year started with the horrific terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans when a man drove his pickup truck into a crowd, killing 14 and injuring dozens more. Tragically, one of those victims was Tiger Bech, a former Princeton football player and the brother of TCU wide receiver Jack Bech. The 27-year old was in New Orleans with his friend Ryan Quigley celebrating the new year, but the two Philadelphia Eagles fans already had hopes of returning back to the city a few weeks later if the Eagles made it to the Super Bowl. Unfortunately Bech was killed after pushing a girl out of the way of the oncoming truck, and Quigley suffered major injuries including broken bones in his leg, back and face. So it's understandable that he may not have been eager to go back to New Orleans, even after his Eagles defeated the Washington Commanders to secure their spot in Super Bowl LIX on February 9. But the team wanted to give him a chance to keep his plans with his late friend - and during a recent visit to the facility, Quigley received a special surprise from Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham: "It's ok if you're not feeling it, but we would love to have you down for the Super Bowl. We know it's in New Orleans and we understand, so if you're up for it, you're there." It was an emotional moment for Quigley, who quickly accepted the offer in memory of Tiger: "We went to every home game last year. All year, after every win...I told him, 'If we make it, I promise I'm gonna take you to the Super Bowl.' So I'd love nothing more than to still take him." Quigley said that while Tiger would want nothing more than to be at the Super Bowl, he planned to make it his mission to make sure that his friend was represented at the game. And Bech's sister Ginnie fought back tears as she told Graham what the offer meant to her family: "For Ryan and for our family, now we get to rewrite this so soon from such a negative and horrible memory to such a really beautiful and cool memory and what you guys have done for us." And Quigley says that in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack he had told himself that he would never return to New Orleans, he quickly realized that he needed to do it in honor of his friend: