This is the main reason I am currently holding fire on the rogue trustees - I’m not convinced they have the authoriTAH to do squat on their own. Why kick up a fuss if the NCAA is likely to deliver a bigger smackdown? And if Penn State incurs further penalties because of them, they won’t be trustees for much longer.
Oh please what a fuckin’ sop. The players were just precious.
Meaning no disrespect to the victims? No, of course not, because this is about We Are Penn State. It isn’t about the victims. Those pesky victims, they need to just fuck off and stop tarnishing The Storied Legacy That Is Penn State University.
So, now the players are victims. Jerry Sandusky is a victim. According to the Paterno family, Joe Paterno was a victim.
Perhaps there’s money to be made selling sweatshirts that read in big blue letters
From ESPN article about Paterno biography, the day after he was fired:
“My name,” the Hall of Fame coach was quoted in the excerpt as telling his son and quarterback coach, Jay. “I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it’s gone.”
I think this highlights the problem, the importance of his name/legacy grew to an unhealthy point with him, his family and most people associated with the program.
Well isn’t that telling. And here for the last fuckload of decades the public line has been that JoePa is all about the kids. Everything is about the kids. Not the game. Not the wins. Just the simple purity of being there for his student athletes.
Now, post-mortem, we find this out. It isn’t about the kids. It isn’t about Penn State University or the NCAA or football. It’s about making his name mean something to everyone else and to himself.
“Sweet Caroline,” which is a big fan participation song during games, is being cut because of the lyrics, more specifically the line “touching me, touching you.”
Starving Artist sits around thinking about fucking kids. Still. For months and months he sits around, thinking of how to fuck little boys. And then he brags about it.
So, they said the alleged act was physically impossible for anyone of those respective sizes to perform?
Because that’s what you said that everyone is mocking. You said it was physically impossible and the paper towel tube “proved” it.
Dear Raft and liz, the jury heard testimony and found the same things I did. Men and boys sometimes shower together. Paterno did not know what Sandusky was doing. Sandusky was acquitted of rape in the shower room incident.
I was right. You were wrong. I won. You lost. End of story.