{"id":324811,"date":"2025-08-28T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/324811\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:11:24","slug":"texas-college-football-teams-to-honor-severe-flooding-victims-with-matching-helmet-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/324811\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas college football teams to honor severe flooding victims with matching helmet sticker"},"content":{"rendered":"

College football teams across the state will wear helmet decals in honor of the victims of the severe flooding<\/a> in Texas earlier this summer. <\/p>\n

More than 135 people were found dead<\/a> across several counties in Central Texas following severe flooding over Fourth of July weekend. <\/p>\n

Videos and photos were posted by participating universities on social media Thursday showing a sticker featuring an image of Texas with a green ribbon wrapped around it being applied to every school\u2019s helmet. <\/p>\n

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“Standing together and wearing our hearts on our helmets. A green ribbon over the state of Texas in memory of the victims and all those impacted by this summer\u2019s devastating floods,” some of the posts read.<\/p>\n

Team helmets displayed in the video included SMU<\/a>, Texas A&M<\/a>, Texas Tech<\/a>, TCU<\/a>, Houston, North Texas<\/a>, Baylor<\/a> and many others. <\/p>\n

The Texas<\/a> football profile also posted separate images on its X account. <\/p>\n

During SEC Media Days, Texas safety Michael Taaffe wore a tie to pay tribute to nearly 30 young girls and their counselors who died at Camp Mystic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tie was burnt orange and had the initials of 27 people who died atthe Christian summer camp cherished by Texas\u2019 Hill Country<\/a>. The \u201cDE\u201d at the top was inhonor of Dick Eastland<\/a>, the camp\u2019s owner who was also a Texas Longhorns fan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to show light to what\u2019s going on in Texas,\u201d Taaffe, a Texas native, said. \u201cFootball is cool, but this is real life and this is way more important than football. I wanted everyone around the country to know what Texas is dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find more college sports coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College football teams across the state will wear helmet decals in honor of the victims of the severe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9436,2009,1554,7,49,48,4710,4724,7212,1078,4721],"class_list":{"0":"post-324811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-baylor-bears","9":"tag-brief","10":"tag-colleges","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-smu-mustangs","15":"tag-tcu-horned-frogs","16":"tag-texas-am-aggies","17":"tag-texas-longhorns","18":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115107979925173459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}