Historic Main Street in Van Buren, Ark., the hometown of Jaguars rookie wide receiver Matt Jones.
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Here is an excerpt from this weeks Florida Times-Union - We read more and more about Matt Jones in the news, this week there was also a two-page spread about his high school and college days...
Jaguars rookie sensation Matt Jones is ... one laid-back Razorback
Receiver always keeps his cool, even in the stormiest situations
By BART HUBBUCH, The Times-Union
VAN BUREN, Ark. -- To this day, Matt Jones says he didn't hear the commotion or even the screams.
Tucked in his upstairs bedroom just before midnight, his 13th birthday less than an hour away, Jones was too tired to care about the winds howling outside his parents' two-story house on that April night in 1996.
Not even the crash of a bookshelf falling on his leg could jolt Jones into using the speed that would one day make him famous at the University of Arkansas and run for cover downstairs.
"I really didn't know what was going on,'' Jones recalled recently, "so I just rolled over into bed and went back to sleep. I probably would have been scared if I knew it was a tornado. But sleep sounded pretty good right about then.''
What was going on was an F3 tornado, one of the worst to hit Van Buren and Northwest Arkansas. The tornado destroyed his parents' home, along with more than 500 others, killed three people and caused an estimated $300 million in damage.
Matt Jones slept right through it. read the rest at http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/092505/jag_19861276.shtml
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