{"id":434929,"date":"2026-09-13T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434929\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:26:16","slug":"how-houston-texans-honored-late-janice-mcnair-before-bills-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434929\/","title":{"rendered":"How Houston Texans honored late Janice McNair before Bills game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe\u2019s just been a wonderful supporter,\u201d the late Bob McNair said in a one-minute video that played during the tribute. \u201cShe treats people well, cares about people. She likes to raise people up, not knock them down, and always a positive attitude. That\u2019s a great asset for me to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janice was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/texans\/article\/janice-mcnair-dead-charity-causes-money-22345575.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">known for her philanthropy<\/a>, starting with The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation that invested millions of dollars into various programs across the city and the Houston Texans Foundation, which raised $50 million in two-plus decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelping others, that\u2019s the biggest thrill,\u201d Janice said in the pregame video.<\/p>\n<p>After the video, that included Janice welcoming head coach DeMeco Ryans back to Houston when he was hired as the Texans head coach in 2023, Grammy-award winning soprano Nancy Curtis sang \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d followed by a moment of silence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the season, the Texans will play with \u201cRCM-JSM\u201d patches on their jerseys as tribute to Robert and Janice McNair, who are also both in the team\u2019s Ring of Honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShe\u2019s just been a wonderful supporter,\u201d the late Bob McNair said in a one-minute video that played during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-434929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}