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On 18 September 2017, Facebook user Nik Mathias posted a photograph of a child looking out a window on Kinnick Stadium, home of the Iowa Hawkeyes (the University of Iowa's football team) along with the following claims: The UI Stead Family Children's Hospital was not built by the Hawkeyes football team, but it is owned and run by the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Although Hawkeyes can sometimes be used to refer to students, faculty or alumni of the University of Iowa, it most commonly refers to the football team. This — combined with the text and photographs in Nik Mathias' Facebook post — led many readers to believe the football team, not the university, had built the hospital. It was opened in February 2017. Further, the Hawkeyes have indeed started a new ritual of waving and applauding for children after the first quarter of home games, as this brief ESPN report explains:
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