Bruce Collie
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Position: | Guard Tackle | ||||||
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Born: | Nuremberg, Bavaria | June 27, 1962||||||
Height: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 275 lb (125 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | Robert E. Lee (San Antonio, Texas) | ||||||
College: | Texas-Arlington | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1985 / round: 5 / pick: 140 | ||||||
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Bruce Stokes Collie (born June 27, 1962) is a former professional American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at the University of Texas at Arlington and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1985 NFL draft.[1]
A born-again Christian, Collie now resides in Wimberley, Texas with his wife, Holly, and 13 children Devyn (1993–2023), Jordyn (b. 1994), Jensen (b. 1995), Denton (b. 1996), Branson (b. 1997), Cameron (b. 1998), Bergyn (b. 2000), Calyn (b. 2001), Hadyn (b. 2002), Hansen (b. 2004), Daltyn (b. 2005), Jadyn (b. 2007) and Dennison (b. 2009), where he brews beer & sells pizza.
He operated Wimberley Brewing Company & Brewster's Pizza, a micro-brewery & pizza business in a building he designed and built himself located at "The Junction" on Ranch Road-12 @ FM-32 in Wimberley, Texas, until it closed in 2020.[1]
In 2010, he coached the San Marcos Homeschool Panther's varsity football team. [2] [3] [4] Collie is an advocate of the Tim Tebow bill that would allow homeschoolers in Texas to play sports offered by public schools.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "1985 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
- ^ Texas Home School Coalition (May 8, 2017), Bruce and Holly Collie Talk About the Tim Tebow Bill, archived from the original on December 15, 2021, retrieved May 9, 2017
- 1962 births
- Living people
- Texas–Arlington Mavericks football players
- San Francisco 49ers players
- Philadelphia Eagles players
- American football offensive guards
- German players of American football
- People from Wimberley, Texas
- Sportspeople from Hays County, Texas
- Sportspeople from Nuremberg
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football offensive lineman, 1960s birth stubs