# It's time to officially Pit Joe Paterno and the Penn State football program. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167 "2011-11-07T14:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 264
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5263 "2012-10-08T23:17:20Z")
He knows he’s in deep dog shit and he’s saying anything to try to get out of trouble! HAHAHA ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5264 "2012-10-08T23:28:55Z")
McQueary’s a “veteran” accuser? What other accusations are in his history? ---
**Author:** ![NoLittlePlans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoLittlePlans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoLittlePlans)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5265 "2012-10-08T23:41:18Z")
While I do believe there’s more to this story that’s worth exploring, Jerry was afforded his chance to face his accusers but chose silence instead. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5266 "2012-10-08T23:47:32Z")
Well, he’s not choosing silence _now_. Of course, he’s not under oath and subject to cross-examination. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5267 "2012-10-09T00:24:35Z")
He wants a champion to take on those forces of injustice that have convicted but not crushed him. Sounds like a perfect job for our boy **SA**!! ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5268 "2012-10-09T00:28:19Z")
> [@Jerry Sandusky](#): > > It will take more than our effort. Justice will have to be more than just a word. Fairness be more than just a dream. It will take others. Somebody apolitical with the courage to listen, to think about the unfairness, to have the guts to stand up and take the road less traveled. I wonder who he thinks he’s contacting, here. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5269 "2012-10-09T00:32:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Jerry Sandusky > …stand up and take the road less traveled. Isn’t that what got him into this mess in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5270 "2012-10-09T00:37:31Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Isn’t that what got him into this mess in the first place? Standing, squatting, crouching, whatever… ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5271 "2012-10-09T00:44:10Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > McQueary’s a “veteran” accuser? What other accusations are in his history? I guess Sandusky’s son is a veteran accuser too. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5272 "2012-10-09T00:45:41Z")
> [@NoLittlePlans](#): > > \*They can take away my life, they can make me out as a monster, they can treat me as a monster, but they can’t take away my heart. In my heart, I know I did not do these alleged, disgusting acts. My wife has been my only sex partner and that was after marriage. Our love continues. > \* I’m tearing up, here. All I can say is: It wasn’t your heart that got you in trouble, dude, it was your dick. Keep fucking that chicken, Jerry. Keep fucking that chicken… You too, **SA** … ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5273 "2012-10-09T01:04:30Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I guess Sandusky’s son is a veteran accuser too. Well, everybody was making accusations. Sandusky’s son just wanted to be popular. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5274 "2012-10-09T01:58:52Z")
> [@NoLittlePlans](#): > > A young man who is dramatic and a veteran accuser and always sought attention started everything. He was joined by a well-orchestrated effort of the media, investigators, the system, Penn State, psychologists, civil attorneys and other accusers. They won. I’ve wondered what they really won. Attention, financial gain, prestige will all be temporary. Prestige? Really? “Next on the red carpet is Victim #4, who was butt-fucked, wait, no he was dry humped by Jerry Sandusky. He’s wearing Armani.” “You’re the psychologist for one of the victims in the Jerry Sandusky case? I take that back, sir. We DO have tables available for 7pm Saturday.” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5275 "2012-10-09T02:19:34Z")
Actually, in some ways, I don’t think he’s actually _lying_. Oh, when he says he didn’t molest those kids. He knows he did it. But I think on some level, Sandusky truly doesn’t believe he did anything wrong. I honestly think that he believes that he was helping those kids, that what he did was right. I think he’s that deluded, and he thinks that they actually had a relationship that was normal and perfectly healthy. He’s that deluded. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5276 "2012-10-09T02:26:17Z")
Saw an interview with Bobby Joe Long, after his arrest for serial rape\murder\kidnapping…said he didn’t think he had done anything _criminal._ And this was AFTER he confessed to the crimes. Reminds me a bit of that. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5277 "2012-10-09T02:40:54Z")
This just in: Jerry Sandusky cannot keep his mouth shut to save his life. Because if there’s anything a judge loves more than sentencing a serial child molester to prison, it’s sentencing an unrepentant serial child molester to prison. And Generalissimo Francisco Franco…is still dead. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5278 "2012-10-09T02:47:04Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > I wonder who he thinks he’s contacting, here. Starving Artist > [@PunditLisa](#): > > Prestige? Really? > > “Next on the red carpet is Victim #4, who was butt-fucked, wait, no he was dry humped by Jerry Sandusky. He’s wearing Armani.” > > “You’re the psychologist for one of the victims in the Jerry Sandusky case? I take that back, sir. We DO have tables available for 7pm Saturday.” Genius. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5279 "2012-10-09T03:02:15Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > I wonder who he thinks he’s contacting, here. > [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Starving Artist Actually, Sandusky’s best bet (it’s not a _good_ bet, but perhaps the least bad one) may be not to talk about _he’s_ been victimized by false accusations, but to express his regret that his good friend Joe Paterno has been hurt by this, and how enemies of Joe Paterno were eager to sink him by any and all means, and isn’t it a shame that a great guy like Joe Paterno had to give up what he loved most, what he was best at, in a flurry of false accusations… Paterno-fellators like Starving Artist will love this and defend Sandusky as a step toward defending and redeeming their beloved “JoePa”. Of _course_ the accusations are false, JoePa would never let stuff like that happen at his school! My cite is this thread. ---
**Author:** ![NoLittlePlans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoLittlePlans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoLittlePlans)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5280 "2012-10-09T03:16:59Z")
Ekers, pretty sure you’d find most Paterno fans even more hateful of Jerry Sandusky than the general public. Also notice Jerry blaming Penn State for being out to get him rather than playing the role of pedophile enabler. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5281 "2012-10-09T03:22:54Z")
Soooooo…we’re marking Sandusky down for “C” then? ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/5282 "2012-10-09T05:43:28Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > This just in: Jerry Sandusky cannot keep his mouth shut to save his life. Because if there’s anything a judge loves more than sentencing a serial child molester to prison, it’s sentencing an unrepentant serial child molester to prison. > > And Generalissimo Francisco Franco…is still dead. Who are you going to believe, Jerry Sandusky or McQueary and a bunch of victim’s lying eyes? Those lying eyes . . . We know what SA believes. What about the rest of you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167.md?page=263) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167.md?page=265)