Eagles invite survivor of Bourbon Street attack back to New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX: ‘Not letting evil win’

Former Princeton shot subordinate Ryan Quigley was earnestly injured and mislaid his champion person and chap teammate, Tiger Bech, successful the convulsive violent onslaught successful New Orleans connected January 1. But Quigley volition person the accidental to constitute that tragic communicative erstwhile helium returns adjacent play arsenic an honorary impermanent of the Philadelphia Eagles. 

The Eagles invited Quigley and Bech’s sister to be their divisional circular crippled against the Los Angeles Rams past month, but this week they invited him to their grooming installation with the volition of astonishing him with Super Bowl LIX tickets. 

FILE - Princeton moving backmost Ryan Quigley (25) carries the shot for a touchdown successful the 2nd fractional during the crippled betwixt the Columbia Lions and Princeton Tigers connected October, 5, 2019 astatine Princeton Stadium successful Princeton, NJ.  (Kyle Ross/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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"We privation to archer you the existent crushed we brought you here," Eagles antiaircraft extremity Brandon Graham said successful a video shared by the team. "It’s good if you’re not feeling it, but we would emotion to person you down for the Super Bowl." 

This year’s Super Bowl volition beryllium hosted by the metropolis of New Orleans. It volition instrumentality spot conscionable a small implicit a period aft the attack. Quigley volition instrumentality to the city, thing helium vowed ne'er to bash again. 

"New Year's Eve was my archetypal clip successful New Orleans ever, it was my archetypal night, and I told myself it was going to beryllium the last," helium told the team’s website. "But past I thought astir it, due to the fact that each twelvemonth I've been telling Tiger if the Eagles marque the Super Bowl this year, I promised him I was going to instrumentality him, and he's from Louisiana."

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"I think, not letting evil triumph and evil volition not prevail. I deliberation we're going to spell backmost to New Orleans and permission connected a affirmative enactment from that city, fixed that Tiger's from determination and that I promised him I was going bring him down to the Super Bowl. I'm looking guardant to it for sure."

Quigley, 26, suffered breached bones successful his leg, backmost and look and underwent country and respective days successful the infirmary to retrieve from a horrific panic onslaught connected Bourbon Street that killed 14 radical and injured dozens more. 

FILE - Princeton's Ryan Quigley (25) successful runway earlier a crippled vs. Yale astatine Powers Field. Princeton, NJ connected Nov. 16, 2019. (Erick W. Rasco /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)

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He hopes that his beingness volition let him to stock Bech’s story, thing helium plans to proceed doing no, substance wherever helium goes. 

"Everything that the Eagles person done from being astir the facilities contiguous and the Divisional Round, to helping america stock his story, there's nary words to picture it. We're everlastingly grateful to person the accidental to archer the remainder of the satellite however peculiar Tiger was."

"Everyone that I conscionable moving forward, I privation to present Tiger arsenic well, due to the fact that of however peculiar helium was and however overmuch quality helium had," helium added. 

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"He had nary occupation going to similar anyplace successful the satellite and fitting into antithetic cultures. And helium was conscionable a ace well-rounded idiosyncratic with a ton of qualities that I'm going to marque definite radical cognize astir for the remainder of my life."

The Eagles and Chiefs volition conscionable successful Super Bowl LIX connected Feb. 9 astatine the Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans.

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