So he wrote a book about how his dad supported faggotry and boy-rape?
Paterno looked the other way when he should have been upholding his moral responsibilities.
It’s funny how you vilify any college or professional athlete for the slightest infraction, but you have a different standard for certain people.
It’s so rude to ruin people’s witch hunts. Shame on you! /sarc
What I find sad is the degree in which people like Patermo (and many others mind you) will glorify football to the exclusion of everything else. I know it was his passion and he was a great coach etc but etc after all it is just a game. Patermo was a powerful person that could have done something to stop it yet he chose to do very little.
Another way of looking at it is that Patermo might be considered way ahead of his time. Acceptance of molestation and rape is coming next. In x numbers of years indoctrinated future generations will wonder why the heck was Patermo fired and why was Sandusky arrested.
Joe said/had an ‘interesting’ quote in a long ago, (Early 1970’s?) Sports Illustrated story regarding the scandals going on in College Sports, (something to the effect that he would never tell rat out anyone). I have a collection of Sports Illustrated mags, 1954-1976. I will go dig up the issue and post the exact quote from the story. Stay tuned!
His book has to be complete if it doesn’t include an interview with Ray Gricar - he’s the key to what happened the first time around.
There's no need. The Paterno cultists are taking care of it.
“In 2009, Louis Freeh was hired by Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar bin Sultan as his legal representative on issues surrounding the Al-Yamamah arms deal, appearing April 7, 2009 on the PBS series Frontline’s episode “Black Money”.[38]
In late May 2011, Freeh was retained as an independent investigator by the Ethics Committee of FIFA in the bribery scandal centering on Mohammed bin Hammam and Jack Warner.[39] However, the Court of Arbitration of Sports subsequently rejected Freeh’s report as consisting of little more than speculation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh
Every two weeks you bring this up. And every two weeks you get throttled here.
You must REALLY be a Penn State/Paterno fanatic. I feel sorry for you that, THAT is your entire life.
Ever ask yourself why you so badly want FReepers to agree with you about Joe? Why are you obsessed with this dead man?
Not just Paterno, but Bear Bryant, Vince Lombardi, Bill Parcells, Tom Landry, Bill Belichick, the list goes on and on. It's almost homoerotic the way these coaches are obsessed over by other men. I find it more than a little creepy. Football is just a game. Get a grip people.
I am not going to defend Joe Paterno although it seems from
what I know about him he was a conservative and moral person. Apparently he stuck his head in the sand big time.
Did he choose to reside in fantasy land during the latter
part of his life? Was he in denial and did he pretend that
if he ignored what happened it would go away?
Was there a time when something like this would happen and
only the perpetrator would pay the price? I kind of think
there was. We know that all kinds of child abuse has gone
on forever but only in the past several decades has society
decided to really do something about it. Was Paterno so
isolated in his football world that he failed to get with
the times? If so, then he deserves all the scorn he gets
and more.
But, I think about my own 89 yr old WWII combat wounded
and PhD father who spent a career working with youth in
the field of vocational agriculture. He is a dedicated
Christian who has dealt harshly with teachers who have
had affairs with their high school students. The world
has changed and I long ago noticed that pop has gradually
isolated himself from the sad realities that have evolved.
JoePa is human... he told the administration about Sandusky, but he didn’t follow through.
Okay, I found Paterno’s quote. (See/Regarding my post#9 this thread). In Sports Illustrated’s June 10th 1974 issue, (Johnny Miller on the cover), In a story titled: ‘A Case In Point’, (page 88, right hand col.), regarding the complete mess that the NCAA had then, and had had for ongoing years, regarding their various scandals Saint Joe said this about the subject of NCAA cheating: “I’ve never blown the whistle on anyone yet and I never will”.......Well, well, well. Not gonna ‘speak up’ about anyone involved in a scandal that pales in comparison to child rape huh Joe? Not gonna ‘speak’ up about anyone involved in NCAA messes that pale in comparison to child molestation huh Joe? The fact that Joe would not ‘speak up’ about minor, (Compared to child rape), NCAA scandals tells it all. Nope. He was not gonna say a word about his child rapist pal Sandusky. Case Closed on saint Joe.
JoePa knew, or should have know what was going on and did nothing. At best, he was guilty of gross negligence.
When you put football above all, you worship false idols. Stop worshiping false idols.