Military Appreciation Day Will Be Meaningful To J.R. Collins

By: wisec4g on September 20, 2013, 3:57 PM | 8 comments

Awesome tidbit from the Fighting Gobbler:

This Saturday Virginia Tech will be honoring all of those who have served our country, or are currently doing so. It will be Military Appreciation Day, and the team is wearing special orange camo jerseys. While this day is very meaningful to everyone in the program, it will be extra special for J.R. Collins.

This will be a very special day for J.R. Collins since his family is heavily involved in the Military. Both his father and sister are currently in the Army Reserves. His sister is now in Germany serving the country. As for his father, he has served two tours in Iraq. This will obviously be an emotional day for Collins. You can imagine that he will be playing with great intensity Saturday, and look to have a huge game.

The defensive end will look to build on his impressive start to his season. In the season opener against Alabama, Collins recored three tackles. Against Western Carolina he had a sack, and 5 tackles. In the last game against ECU the Senior had two more sacks and 5 tackles. Collins has been terrific for the Hokies in his final season and will look to keep it up. With the magnitude of Saturdays game, and his momentum he already has, J.R. Collins should shine.

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HokiesFTW123's picture HokiesFTW123 | 12 years 9 months #

Great story, I expect for JR to dominate tomorrow.

In Sam Rogers we trust.

ljbranson's picture ljbranson | 12 years 9 months #

Love to read stuff like this. God bless our Troops and America.

"Now Miami wants to talk about it." *Cue Enter Sandman*

HorseOnATreadmill's picture HorseOnATreadmill
| 12 years 9 months #

Hell yeah, go on Collins's do the thing

AZ_Hokie's picture AZ_Hokie | 12 years 9 months #

He owned it today. 9 tackles, 1.5 for loss, 1.5 sacks, 3 hurries. Most important, the forced fumble to 311 pound blur.

Joe_eikoh05's picture Joe_eikoh05 | 12 years 9 months # ^

Unfortunately for us, Skip Hopkins' blur was not blurrier than the Marshall guy's blur.

Joe_eikoh05's picture Joe_eikoh05 | 12 years 9 months #

I wonder if any of the DLine recruits have been paying attention to VT's line play this year? All the sacks and Forced fumbles and almost TDs?

VTGuitarMan's picture VTGuitarMan
🎸OG LEG KING 🎸
| 12 years 9 months # ^

This needs to go on Foster's wall as a recruiting tool:

"Exit light..."

jp_daddi0's picture jp_daddi0
GET SOME!
| 12 years 9 months # ^

This is a Top 10 Comment of the Year. Shred on, Guitarman; thanks for the lol.