{"id":882116,"date":"2026-10-14T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882116\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:18:34","slug":"cal-unveils-grateful-dead-helmets-in-trending-photo-ahead-of-game-vs-wake-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882116\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Unveils Grateful Dead Helmets in Trending Photo Ahead of Game vs. Wake Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">California will honor the Grateful Dead with its helmet for Saturday&#8217;s game against Wake Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The design includes the band&#8217;s trademark lightning bolt down the center and the &#8220;Dancing Bears&#8221; on the back bumper:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Grateful Dead originated in Palo Alto, California, which is the home of Cal&#8217;s biggest rival, Stanford. The band had a <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/sf-culture\/article\/paul-mccartney-cal-memorial-stadium-22416457.php\">number of performances<\/a> at Berkeley&#8217;s Greek Theatre, though, and built a strong connection with the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Golden Bears are coming off a 25-20 win over Virginia Tech that got them back to .500 (3-3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Wake Forest is 5-1 and 21st in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. Should Cal pull off the upset, it will be a massive result for first-year coach Tosh Lupoi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California will honor the Grateful Dead with its helmet for Saturday&#8217;s game against Wake Forest. The design includes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-882116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}