The South Carolina football program will honor and remember the Emanuel 9 during the 2015 football season by wearing a sticker on their helmets of a “reimagined” South Carolina flag according to WSOCTV.
The sticker, designed by artist Gil Shuler, shows nine doves forming the characteristic South Carolina palmetto tree. The garnet sticker highlights the state’s solidarity after the tragic shooting at Emanuel AME Church that claimed the lives of Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Clementa C. Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and Myra Thompson.
The Gamecocks will debut the stickers at Thursday’s season opener against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
