A record Blue-White crowd of 71,000 turned out on a picture-perfect day in Happy Valley to watch the Penn State football team wrap up spring drills. In the photo at top, the student section managed to pull together a pretty fair VT with orange and maroon shirts sold to honor those at Virginia Tech. (Click to supersize.) In the photo below, five students painted the front of their bodies with Penn State and the back with VTECH. Prior to the game a Penn State player read a moving statement to the crowd. During a moment of silence Blue Band -- dressed this day in Virginia Tech orange T-shirts -- quietly played Amazing Grace. Tears flowed all around. The Penn State cheerleaders and dance team all dressed in Virginia Tech maroon and a number of players wore orange wristbands and had orange towels hanging from their waists. It would probably be an overstatement to say there were as many Virginia Tech T-shirts as Penn State shirts in the stands, but it was closer than you'd ever imagine. I bought a maroon shirt that has a Nittany Lion logo, a black ribbon outlined in white and the words, "We Remember 04.16.07"
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