“This is great because I thought I wouldn’t get a chance to see a game because I don’t fly,” said James Dalton, Quincy’s grandfather. for an 8-yard touchdown with 1:15 left in the first quarter, tying the game at 7, she broke character, flashing a mother’s proud smile and accepting hugs from everyone around her.įinally, after a first quarter that lasted 49 minutes in real time, everyone took a seat and took in the game as relatively normal spectators. Almost stone-faced, Kimberly stood through the sun - and yes, some Midwest snow flurries, too - nonplussed at this environment. With her son at the helm of the offense, Virginia Tech went three-and-out on each of its first four drives. Once the work stoppage ended and classes resumed Friday, she decided to go in until 1 p.m. Alas, the Chicago teachers’ strike meant she had gone 11 days without school. A secretary at Solorio, Kimberly planned on taking off Friday and getting to town early. His mother was able to secure nine more tickets from families of players who were not traveling, in order to accommodate the growing Patterson cheering section. “I talked to one of our GAs on Wednesday night, I think, and he kind of just hinted that I was the man for this game and that I’d be starting.” “They never really came straight up to me,” Patterson said after the game of learning he would start. He amassed 176 yards from scrimmage (122 rushing) and two touchdowns in that contest, figures that do not include his game-winning score in the sixth overtime period. The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Patterson opened the season as a third-stringer, but he came on in relief of an injured Hendon Hooker during the Hokies’ last outing two weeks ago against North Carolina.
Patterson’s family stayed at the team hotel the previous night in nearby Michigan City, but they said not even the quarterback himself knew he would be starting this weekend.
Golly,” and, upon learning they are related, congratulated the cousin on the moment. “ WOOOOO!”Ī lone Notre Dame fan seated among the group turned to Dennis and remarked, “That’s a big-ass quarterback. “Let’s go, Quincy!” shouted his mother, Kimberly, laughing at the bliss of the moment. “YEAH!” screamed Dennis Patterson, a cousin. Mende was part of a four-car, 11-person contingent that made it here for Patterson’s starting debut, even though nothing became official until 2:44 p.m.įollowing a Notre Dame punt to cap the game’s first drive, Patterson came out with the first-team Hokies offense, took a snap and ran up the middle for 3 yards.
We’re like: ‘This is perfect that this works out for him to start.’ It’s like back home almost.” “We were talking about it at work yesterday. “This worked out perfectly,” Joe Mende, an assistant coach at Solorio Academy, Patterson’s alma mater, said in the second quarter. That a win would have come with Patterson, a redshirt freshman Chicago native making his first career start, made the defeat just a bit more bittersweet for his traveling friends and family, who allowed The Athletic to watch the game from the stands with them. Virginia Tech came oh so close to pulling off a giant upset against the No. said.Ī good game - a 21-20 Virginia Tech loss - and only the first game his son has started. “That was a good game,” Quincy Patterson Sr.
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