In a week dominated by talk of the upcoming college football season, Texas safety Michael Taaffe brought something different to SEC Media Days in Atlanta: perspective. Wearing a burnt orange tie stitched with the initials of the 27 victims at Camp Mystic,

Texas DB Michael Taaffe is wearing a tie at SEC Media Days with the initials of the campers & counselors who died at Camp Mystic in the Texas floods🧡 (via @levonwhitt_tv) https://t.co/pEVRDURnuN pic.twitter.com/Tz7Dz2Fshs

Taaffe spoke to reporters wearing a tie with 27 sets of initials on it, each representing someone who died after catastrophic flooding overtook Camp Mystic in the Texas Hill Country during the July 4 weekend.