Bruce Collie

{{Short description|American football player (born 1962)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2023}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name=Bruce Collie

| number=69

| position = Guard
Tackle

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|6|27|mf=y}}

| 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

| pastteams =

• San Francisco 49ers ({{NFL Year|1985|1989}})
• Philadelphia Eagles ({{NFL Year|1990|1991}})
• New York Jets ({{NFL Year|1992}})*

| highlights =

• 2× Super Bowl champion (XXIII, XXIV)

| 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.{{Cite web |title=1985 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1985/draft.htm |access-date=October 10, 2023 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}

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.

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20111108220350/http://www.wimberleybrewingcompany.com/index.html]

[https://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.{{Citation|last=Texas Home School Coalition|title=Bruce and Holly Collie Talk About the Tim Tebow Bill|date=May 8, 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBkk21XK2I8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/sBkk21XK2I8 |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |url-status=live|accessdate=May 9, 2017}}{{cbignore}}

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