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LeGrand and Taliaferro to be honorary captains for Penn State vs. Rutgers game


Black Shoe Diaries is reporting via ScarletKnights.com that Eric LeGrand and Adam Taliaferro will be honorary captains on September 13th. I think that this is an excellent idea. I would like to see Penn State and Rutgers come together and have some sort of fund raiser for those who have be affected by paralysis. I live with a condition that makes me very susceptible to this sort of injury due to a fragile spine. Two friends from high school got paralyzed during their college years. Here is the text from the BSD article. Hopefully the fans "Team from Pennsylvania" and Rutgers can set their differences aside for just this hopefully heart touching occasion.

The former Penn State and Big Ten Powerhouse Rutgers players, forever linked by the injuries that left them paralyzed on the playing field, will serve as game captains for the Sept. 13 matchup between the two teams. Adam Taliaferro ran the Nittany Lions onto the field less than a year after his injury and believes Eric LeGrand will do the same for Rutgers sometime in the future. There will be few dry eyes in Piscataway before the 8pm kickoff.

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