They Killed Him

Townhall.com ^ | January 30, 2012 | Bruce Bialosky

[Clara Lou]

I leave Paterno’s judgement to God. However, I call BS on the author and his title. Crybaby.

[WayneS]

Yes. Yes, he did.

[2ndamendmentpa]

New theory - remember, the Grand Jury testimony was accidentally released(correct me if Im wrong there)...which resulted in the shitstorm that ended with Joe being fired.

Perhaps - they knew Joe was terminally ill...and if they could keep a lid on this until he had passed - they could spare him all this crap - and keep the focus on Sandusky and not the University.

And remember - Joe had testified to the GJ - he knew what was going on - independent of public/media. That had to be a weight as well.

Not sure that casts the board in any better light, though.

[camle]

keep your blinders on...
IIRC jopa admitted to having been informed, and apoligized for not having done the right thing. so you keep shouting to an empty room that still thinks he’s innocent.
no sport, NO form of entertainment is worth ignoring the abuse of our children. no amount of money generated is worth the harm done to our children when it’s ‘gods’ are given a clintonesque pass on horror.
do you care for the sport, or for the children?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Some people will insist that he should have been able to understand such despicable behavior

Hadn't he read the bible through at least once?

[humblegunner]

responsible for the premature death of this great man.

Great man?

I thought he was a football coach.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Those wascawwy smoke filled rooms.

[relictele]

And yet, rumors are that Sandusky’s proclivities were an open secret in State College. (I cannot deny or verify this).

Definitely verified by a friend who has many friends in and around the program (or at least he did during the era in question). Which begets another question...why didn't anyone act on it even before the McQueary incident?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Famous football coach.

Today’s somewhat kinder, gentler answer to the gladiator of old.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Too busy tittering at it, I guess.

[LibsRJerks]

Eh, I tend err on the side of the kids. 1 out of every 4 are sexually molested. This has been going on through time. We need to put a stop to it and let society know it’s NOT OK. I don’t care if you’re a football icon — kids are more important.

[iowamark]

Wow! Evil post of the day! Proof that there is a devil and that he is active in this world.

[Eldon Tyrell]

“Protector of gay pedophile rapist”

Should be on his headstone. By law - for his dieing to avoid the punishment he deserved.

[ZX12R]

Great man? I thought he was a football coach.

Only someone who's entire universe revolves around football, would not be able to see any difference between the terms, "great man" and "great football coach".

[onedoug]

Thus his failure.

[laweeks]

Poppycock.

I agree . . . to, in any way, lionize JoePa is disgusting. He knew for years what his pervert animal buddy was doing in the showers and did NOTHING to prevent it. I feel bad that JoePa didn't get a chance to go on trial and then, perhaps, be walked out of court in prison jammies.

To say that JoePa is in any way a victim is ridiculous. I just think of the dozens, if not more, of little boys sodomized by that Sandusky slob and I wonder what anyone is thinking if there's the slightest tear for JoePa.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Well, if your friend is accurate - and his take seems to be consistent with persistent rumors - then all of Penn State and State College should share in the blame. This would be tantamount to an entire community looking the other way on a horrible set of crimes to protect the reputation of the football program.

Irony is, had they acted swiftly and properly and not worried about the PR - they would have gotten a lot of good PR and prevented other awful incidences from taking place.

Now Penn State will suffer from this for probably decades.

[Sudetenland]

Boo-hoo-hoo! The great enabler of CHILD MOLESTATION died. Paterno wasn't a hero, he was an enabler of a monstrous evil. He chose to look the other way when children UNDER HIS PROTECTION were being abused by one of his people.

I feel sorry alright, I feel sorry for all of those young boys who were ABUSED BY PATERNO'S PET PERVERT. I feel sorry for all those kids who were sacrificed--whose LIVES WERE DESTROYED, to the god of football money.

Any good that Joe Paterno did in his life is more than counterbalanced by his tacit approval of the Penn State Pervert's actions. Sandusky destroyed lives while Paterno sat by and watched. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[WayneS]

Since I posted NOTHING that could POSSIBLY have been interpreted in any way as a defense of Joe Paterno, or as agreement with the tripe in the posted article, I have NO idea why you addressed your post to me.

Do you care to enlighten me, or must it forever remain a mystery?

[yldstrk]

yes, he was already supersick