For one young boy, the most important men in uniform on the football field were not wearing helmets and pads.
They were state troopers.
Dreama Crowder Mullins told Appalachian Magazine that she and her son Braedon were on West Virginia University's Mountaineer Field Saturday, where the rest of the children present were clamoring for autographs from the Mountaineers football players.
But Braedon wanted autographs from a different kind of hero.
He stopped in front of a group of West Virginia state troopers assigned to crowd control and saluted them before asking for their autographs.
Crowder Mullins said her son’s actions melted her heart.
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