So, if Joe Paterno wasn't involved in sports - let's say he was just a manager of a department store and he protected one his childer molester employees - would they have kind words for him?
It's a natural human impulse, but it is a dangerous one and it can be expressed very grotesquely.
Sandusky was not an employee at the time. If Paterno falsely accused a private citizen based on a vague charge by an assistant coach(Paterno saw nothing and there are questions as to what McQueary actually told him)and that charge was proven wrong...Paterno could be sued into oblivion. Paterno took the witness to those who could investigate. Paterno was the ONLY one at PSU who did what he was supposed to.
This is going to get more interesting as the facts reveal Corbett (gov of PA) was AG and in charge of the investigation in '09.
Exactly. Even at the college level, if this was the head of the chemistry department, or the dean of off-campus studies, no one would shed a tear at his firing. But because it's the F*O*O*T*B*A*L*L C*O*A*C*H we are all supposed to be heartbroken.
Much the same mentality that says torturing animals is OK if and only if the torturer also happens to be a star NFL quarterback.