He was a man facing scandal and disgrace but he was no martyr.
People wanted him to face an investigation and trial and probably to face civil liabilities and possibly some short jail time.
Dying cheated justice.
You don't get to be a martyr by dying of cancer.
Not old men who die in their mid eighties of natural causes.
Martyrs are people who give their life willingly for a great cause.
Don't cheapen the term.
Certainly not for a man who made an exorbitant amount of money teaching grown men to run around playing a game with an inflated ball for decades.
I just wonder what difference it would have made had the scandal not broke, would Joe be still with us, would the cancer had been as aggressive?
I must admit, it does seem so weird that he went so fast, especially since just the week before he gave the interview, yes he looked weak, and had a wig, but I would have thought he had at least a few more months.