When Jack Crawford stuffs a running back for a loss or slams a quarterback for a sack, he'll often jump to his feet, get mobbed by his teammates and line up for the next play.

On Saturday, Crawford may instead look up into the Beaver Stadium stands.

That's where his brother, Douglas, will be after making the more than 3,500-mile trip from London to watch Jack play. Douglas will be the first person in the Crawford family to watch Jack play football in person.

"I'm most looking forward to experiencing a game to see what my brother experiences on a weekly basis," Douglas, 30, said.

But the Crawford family is no stranger to athletics. Douglas played basketball growing up in London with Paul, 28, the second of three boys in the family.

"I was a big Michael Jordan fan," Douglas laughed, "so my bedroom was a shrine to Michael Jordan."

Jack followed in his brothers' footsteps and landed in Richland, N.J., with hoop dreams before being introduced to football.

Jack stayed in Longport, N.J., with classmate Peter D'Andrea, whose family wanted to meet Douglas for the first time this weekend but has a scheduling conflict. Peter is an offensive lineman at Penn, which has its homecoming game against Princeton at 3:30 p.m., the same time as Penn State's game against Ohio State.

Steven D'Andrea, Peter's father, said the family hoped to work out a plan so that they could catch the Penn game and still get to meet Douglas sometime later in the day.

Douglas, meanwhile, will be engulfed in the crowd of 100,000-plus that will watch Jack and the Nittany Lions take on the Buckeyes.

Jack has started every game at defensive end as a sophomore and leads Penn State in tackles for loss. And his brother probably has no clue what that even means.

"I know very little," Douglas said. "I can just about follow what's going on, but I don't really understand the tactics.

"I just know the basic rules."

Douglas knows that much because last season he started subscribing to ESPN360, allowing him to watch from his computer.

He has kept a tab on his brother and Penn State ever since, witnessing every tackle and every win accumulated over the last 14 months.

Douglas hopes to see more of the same in person Saturday.

He planned on arriving to America today and would go with a friend from New York to Madison Square Garden for the Knicks-Cavaliers game tonight. On Sunday, he planned on going to Giants Stadium for the Giants-Chargers game.

But neither an NBA game nor an NFL game will trump Beaver Stadium on Saturday.

"I used to follow college basketball a lot," Douglas said. "I think there's a bit more genuine excitement in college sports than there is in professional."

Barring anything unforeseen, Douglas will be the only member of the Crawford family in State College, making Paul, occupied with work, "just so jealous."

"He would really, really love to be able to come out," Douglas said. "So I've actually been looking into last-minute flights for him, but I'm not sure he can get the time."

Regardless, Douglas will have a story to tell his friends and family when he arrives back in London on Monday.

"I just look at my brother and just want him to play as well as he can," Douglas said.