Matias Ferreira had just moved to New York from Clayton County, Georgia, when he attended a Jets game in New Jersey about 15 years ago.

“I’m sitting there hanging out with my family, wearing a Georgia Bulldogs hat up in the nosebleeds. I wasn’t really a Jets fan at the time,” Ferreira, a 36-year-old Suffolk County police officer, told The Post.

Soon after, the PA announcer asked members of the military to stand so that they could be properly recognized for their service to the nation.

Like that, Ferreira, a Marine who lost both of his legs to an IED blast in Afghanistan in 2011, rose to his feet as a nearby “six-foot-five, 300-pound” man was brought to tears of gratitude after seeing the 36-year-old’s two prosthetic devices.

“He goes, ‘What are you doing in that Georgia hat?’ and I say

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