I’m watching a replay of the interview on The Daily Show now, and I timed this just for curiosity’s sake. After Costas asks “Are you sexually attracted to young boys,” it takes Sandusky 15 seconds before he gets around to saying “No.” I’m thinking that was not what his lawyer wanted to see.
The decision to allow Sandusky to give that interview has to be up there in the annals of “dumb decisions made by attorneys.” Or do we think that Sandusky thought “I’m a beloved sports figure, Bob Costas will surely be on my side,” and simply didn’t comprehend that nobody’s gonna help him hide anymore?
Maybe the attorney just didn’t think anybody was that fucking stupid. You would never have guessed that anybody would answer “are you sexually attracted to young boys” with “uhh… well, kinda, I mean they are pretty se… wait. No, totally not.”
Another weird angle on the Sandusky case. It’s probably not connected, but it IS very odd.
I know not every likes him, but Costas is a fantastic interviewer.
I generally find him annoying, mostly because he makes everything sound so serious. Fitting in this sort of case, but the day-to-day game filler blather gets silly “So defensive back John Smith changed his shoe laces today, because the previous ones were frayed. Will this affect his focus on the game? Will he be able to play as effectively? What does his mother, who raised him alone in a one bedroom, three-walled apartment surrounded by rabid drug-addict aardvarks think of this drastic mid-season decision?”
That said, this interview was good - directly asking the questions everyone wants to know and handling it very professionally. He’s rather good at keeping a straight face, but during the “sexually attracted?..um…I like young people…” segment I was additionally shocked to see his eyes widen in horror; Bob Costas struggled to understand what he was hearing, and somehow that just made the whole thing that much worse to hear.
Man, his trite, banal, over-the-top, let’s try to give more meaning to these games than they deserve, reflective introductions to World Series games makes me want to choke him and go listen to that finger nails on a chalkboard Faith Hill sing a stupid football song.
In one of the other 127 Penn State threads I posted the “Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?” quote. So no, you’re not.
There’s a saying that if you remove Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the rest of Pennsylvania is basically West Virginia.
I live thereabouts, and sadly mostly true.
Interesting tidbit - the guy heading the Penn State internal investigation is a lawyer, Penn State alum, and… the CEO of Merck. He’s known for how well he handled Merck’s defense of accusations that they covered up known side effects of their drug Vioxx, including keeping payouts on civil suits low.
So to head their own internal investigation about whether a coverup occurred, they hire someone who’s credited with minimizing damage over a coverup. :smack:
You know things just keep getting more comical.
JoePa sold his house to his wife for a $1 before this broke.
Which may or may not mean anything, time will tell. It’s a fairly normal thing for the elderly to do when estate planning.
The joke is heard down here as “Pittsburgh in the west, Philadelphia in the east, Alabama in the middle”.