Bruce Collie | |
Number: | 69 |
Position: | Guard Tackle |
Birth Date: | June 27, 1962 |
Birth Place: | Nuremberg, Bavaria |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 6 |
Weight Lb: | 275 |
High School: | Robert E. Lee (San Antonio, Texas) |
College: | Texas-Arlington |
Draftyear: | 1985 |
Draftround: | 5 |
Draftpick: | 140 |
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Statlabel1: | Games played |
Statvalue1: | 91 |
Statlabel2: | Games started |
Statvalue2: | 40 |
Pfr: | CollBr20 |
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.https://www.wimberleyview.com/news/brewster%E2%80%99s-closes-after-decade
In 2010, he coached the San Marcos Homeschool Panther's varsity football team. https://web.archive.org/web/20120405080255/http://www.brewsterspizza.com/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111108220350/http://www.wimberleybrewingcompany.com/index.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110218212853/http://www.statesman.com/news/content/multimedia/players/brightcove.html?bcpid=1459162514&bclid=1461295911&bctid=41930614001 Collie is an advocate of the Tim Tebow bill that would allow homeschoolers in Texas to play sports offered by public schools.