I think Scott or Jay will tell something about it now that he's passed, but we'll never hear it from the man himself. RIP Joe Paterno. You made a big mistake, and you know it and have admitted so, but you still made millions of men and women better people through what you stood for the past 62 years. The world wouldn't be the same without you.
Matt Millen just told Sportscenter that Paterno didn't die of cancer -- he died of a broken heart. What a jackass. RIP Joe Pa.
He was bigger than the school will ever be and the students, past and present, seem to understand that.
That's such bullshit. Penn State has almost 100,000 students, is one of the top ten spenders on graduate research in the entire world, and has graduated a huge number of U.S. Congressmen, Nobel Prize winners, and Fortune 500 CEO's. The idea that the football coach could ever be bigger than such a massive institution is the kind of wrongheaded perception that allowed the Sandusky mess to get so bad in the first place. I love football as much as anyone, but it's time to drop the notion that sports are anywhere close to the most important aspect of a university.
Why, because I don't kiss the ass of a man who allowed 10 year old boys to be anally raped in the shower?
He testified to a grand jury that at least as far back as 2002 it was reported to him that someone was anally raping a ten year old boy in the shower. And he didn't do everything in his very considerable power to see to it that the child rapist was put in jail. There is nothing more to know. He is every bit as guilty as Sandusky. Good riddance.
How come the witness has changed his story? He even admitted he never told Joe he saw sex act going on.
You don't know what you're talking about and you're making things up. Read McQueary's testimony from just one month ago, for crissakes.
Paterno HIMSELF testified that he knew, and has said so in public since. Take your fucking head out of the sand.
JoePa lived his most of his life the right way and taught a lot of people to live the right way. He deserves a lot of credit for his values, but when he faced the biggest test of his life, he chose to protect his legacy over the protection of child victims. He made the wrong choice and that hypocrisy is unforgivable in my eyes.
I can't imagine what you've been reading. Even if you've just followed the story casually, you'd have to try pretty hard to miss things like this.
