Posted on 07/13/2012 12:55:16 PM PDT by PA BOOKENDS
I have to say, I’m disappointed and a little concerned by the reaction of some of my freeper friends to the Sandusky / Penn State scandal. Full disclosure: I graduated from PSU in 1970. Am not a member of the Alumni Association, have been back for, maybe, 5 games since 1970. Very much on the periphery of all things Penn State.
For the class of ‘70, the JoPa phenomenon (“JoPa” hadn’t even been coined, yet.) hadn’t materialized. Nevertheless, living in Pennsylvania, one could hardly be oblivious to the success of the football team or Paterno’s philosophy. We were happy to see someone who was not only successful, but successful with honor and class.
And this is what brings me to this vanity. So many of you seem to resent that very notion. You apparently held so much animus toward Paterno BEFORE ANY OF THIS EVER CAME OUT, that the very second it hit the fan you couldn’t wait to jump on the down-with-Joe bandwagon. Some of you exhibit so much glee at Joe’s downfall that you come very close to behaving as you accuse him – a willingness to throw a few boys under the bus if it can bring down JoPa & Penn State. Why do you take such joy in seeing a man’s lifework – GOOD work - destroyed?
That Joe couldn’t, perhaps, live up to the ideals he espoused doesn’t make the message any less worthwhile nor does it repudiate the good that he did do. In every sense, his life is the classic story of a Greek tragedy – something the Brown English major would understand!
And to those of you who are so cock-sure of how you would react in any given situation, it is with trepidation that I say: I hope you get the chance to find out.
I also think “cock-sure” isn’t a helpful term in this case.
Barry Switzer has more class in his little pinky than Paterno, ok so he likes to say “Hell” and “Damn” a lot.
Based on your treatise and this quote, I wonder if your moral compass isn't quite pointed North....
That is typical troll behavior. They sign up just after something like this breaks, make a few replies and start threads defending the action.
But if any of them had been known serial child rapists I find it hard to believe it would have been allowed to continue and for years on end. I once had very deep respect for Joe Paterno and the PSU football program. The disgust with Sandusky is one thing but how everybody at PSU and in State College who knew what was happening conducted themselves (and continue to if this vanity post is any indication) is appalling.
I am a school nurse in TX and in TX and I believe in most states it is a state law for those who are working in an enviorment with children to report abuse.....personally, I don’t need a law to tell me that, I would do that on my own
And make sure that PSU Professor Michael Mann doesn’t escape the campus before the nuke ignites...
Nope. Johnson and his Indianan rival, Larry Bird, graduated in 1979.
Sometimes people do good things and terrible things.
The same thing occured to me. We were talking about this in the office yesterday.
Absolutely agree.
For my money, I say Penn State (and Syracuse) are probably the tip of the iceberg of what goes on in these "programs." Maybe it's not all pedophilia, but there's no doubt in my mind that all sorts of criminal and immoral activity is given a free pass for the "glory of the athlete." Like anything else -- follow the money.
IBTZ or IATZ..... Doesn’t matter as long as this evil, pervert loving troll is gone.
I can’t imagine what it was like living with this flase reputation of honor like Paterno, while all the time greasing the skids to a homosexual boy rapist to rape boys. How dishonorable can a coach of young men be than to abet a boy rapist to carry on his evil of destroying boys?
It is similar to Cardnal Law playing the part of representing Christ while playing the part of madam by giving access to all those homo pedophiles raping little boys in church.
You can not get any more low down and sleazy and evil than this. Some people don’t understand the depth of suffering and destruction that comes to a boy who has been raped by a manipulative homo. This ignorace does not excuse the crime.
yeah for the ZOT
Your reality testing is dreadful...consider if your son was butt-raped by that pervert and Joe covered up for him for 14 years. Does that bring it home?
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