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Former college football player, brother of ex-LSU WR, killed in suspected terrorist attack in New Orleans
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Former Princeton football player Tiger Bech died on Wednesday morning in the aftermath of the suspected terrorist attack in New Orleans that has killed at least 10 and injured dozens of others.
The 28-year-old Bech was a native of Lafayette, La., who also played high school football at St. Thomas More in Louisiana and was the brother of former LSU wide receiver Jack Bech. Tiger Bech was taken to a hospital in New Orleans, where he died late Wednesday morning, according to Kim Broussard, the athletic director at St. Thomas More.
Bech was a wide receiver, quarterback, punt returner and defensive back at St. Thomas More before playing his college football at Princeton, where he graduated in 2021. Bech worked as a trader at a New York brokerage firm, according to Broussard, and was in New Orleans for the holidays.
His brother, Jack, who played at LSU in 2021 and 2022 before playing for TCU the past 2 seasons, put out a heartfelt tribute to his brother on social media. It read: “Love you always brother! You inspired me every day now you get to be with me in every moment. I got this family T, don’t worry. This is for us.”
The attack in New Orleans has affected football in multiple ways. On Wednesday afternoon, the Sugar Bowl between Notre Dame and Georgia that was originally scheduled for Wednesday night at 8:45 p.m. ET was postponed for 24 hours until Thursday night at the same time.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
