<p>If you had a chance yesterday ESPN’s Outside the Lines aired the story of Class of '99 alumni Welles Crowther. Crowther was a BC lacrosse player who lost his life on 9/11 after saving a dozen lives in the World Trade Center. It was a very well done, heart breaking story and well worth the watch if you haven’t seen it yet. Keep a box of tissues handy, it’s a tear jerker. (Watch it here).</p>
<p>It was hard not to be moved by the heroism of Crowther, and it seems like the fans down at UCF are responding as well.</p>
<p>UCF fans have launched a Facebook event page and spread the word via Twitter urging their peers to wear red bandanas during the Knights’ big home game against Boston College on Saturday, Sept. 10. Less than 24 hours after the Facebook event page was created, 1,096 people pledged to participate and wear red bandannas to the game.
Classy gesture by the fans down there, I just checked the Facebook page and it already up to 1,600 people. Just kind of shows how football can bring people together and is a great symbol for all of us who lost family and friends on 9/11. It would be quite the scene if a majority of UCF fans followed suit on national television. Be quite a moving scene to see all those red bandannas during the national anthem. Hat tip to the Knights and their fans.</p>
<p>Dear collegecarla : Brilliant posting - thanks for bringing this to everyone’s attention. Sometimes the discussion about “men and women for others” transcends our Boston College College Confidential boundaries and sees another school, like UCF, in their own traditions, lift us all up to a higher level of humanity.</p>
<p>Will be at the UCF vs Boston College game Sat night (we have season tickets). Anyway, there’s been a mad dash all around town this week looking for red bandannas. I can’t tell you how many places I had to look. Talked to the Wal-mart closest to the university, and he said he’d sent his people all over central florida picking up bandannas at their sister wal-marts. They even went so far as to buy out fabric at JoAnn Fabrics and Michaels and make bandannas and sell them. Most people were stopping us as we entered the stores: Red bandannas? We’re out … </p>
<p>It’s amazing how fast this fb campaign started by the two UCF students just grew. The more people heard about Welles Crowther’s courage and sacrifice … well, it just touched us all. </p>