Patriots will hold pregame ceremony for victims of Brown University and Bondi Beach

This was expected to beryllium a time successful which the New England Patriots thought exclusively astir beating the Buffalo Bills and winning the AFC East division, but calamity has wormed its slimy mode into the representation and the franchise is not going to disregard what's happening successful the remainder of the world.

A Patriots spokesperson tells OutKick that the nine volition clasp a infinitesimal of soundlessness to admit the "horrifying events" astatine Brown University connected Saturday and successful Bondi Beach, Australia connected Sunday, earlier kickoff of the crippled against the Buffalo Bills.

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Brown University Near Patriots Facilities

A constabulary conveyance rests astatine an intersection adjacent transgression country portion astatine Brown University, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, successful Providence, Rhode Island, pursuing a Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 shooting astatine the university.  (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Brown University, successful Rhode Island, is little than 30 miles from wherever the Patriots bid and play successful Foxborough, Massachusetts. It was the country of a wide shooting successful which aggregate radical were killed and respective others were wounded successful a wide shooting wrong a classroom.

The Bills, who look the Patriots successful today's 1 p.m. game, were really staying successful Providence, R.I., erstwhile the wide shooting occurred.

No 1 successful the Buffalo enactment was injured and the squad kept everyone from their traveling enactment successful the squad edifice arsenic a precaution.

PATRIOTS 'HEARTBROKEN' AS DEADLY SHOOTING OCCURS AT BROWN UNIVERSITY

Hanukkah Festival Attack Touches Patriots

Emergency workers transport a idiosyncratic connected a stretcher aft a reported shooting astatine Bondi Beach successful Sydney, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025.  (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

The Patriots volition besides beryllium recognizing Sunday's wide shooting astatine a Hanukkah Festival successful Bondi Beach successful Australia.

Australian authorities are calling that onslaught "terrorism" that targeted Jews, including women and children. At slightest 12 radical were killed and astatine slightest 28 others were hospitalized erstwhile 2 gunmen opened occurrence connected the assemblage from a raised position. 

The shooting is the worst onslaught against Jews since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas panic attacks successful Israel.

Robert Kraft Has Spoken Out 

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft connected tract earlier a crippled against the Arizona Cardinals astatine State Farm Stadium connected Dec. 15, 2024 successful Glendale, Arizona. (Mike Christy/Getty Images)

And that is felt wrong the Patriots community, arsenic nine proprietor Robert Kraft is precise nationalist successful his enactment of Jewish causes.

Kraft founded the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate, which monitors, among different things, the dependable emergence of anti-semitism successful the United States and astir the world.

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Kraft spoke exclusively to OutKick and FOXNews past period astir Blue Square and besides shared his concerns astir the predetermination of Zohran Mamdani arsenic politician successful New York City.

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