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Jacoby Carries Unique Piece of GSU Football History

Ben Jacoby's career in information technology has taken him all over the world, traveling to places like Spain, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia.

And whether he is at his home in the north Atlanta suburbs or somewhere across the globe, the former Georgia State football captain always has a unique piece of Panther football history in his wallet.

Now a senior enterprise design architect in mobile device management for VMware, one of the world's largest virtualization companies, Jacoby opens his wallet and pulls out a coin. Not a quarter or a dime, but the commemorative slice of metal that was used for inaugural coin toss in Georgia State history on Sept.