I'm not omniscient ... in fact, I don't even know what the term sodomy means!
I'm not omniscient ... in fact, I don't even know what the term sodomy means!
No ill will towards Posnanski (I loved his book on the Big Red Machine) but his original plan was to ape ‘When Pride Still Mattered’ (Maraniss’ biography of Lombardi) and write a fairly hegemonic Paterno bio. In the middle of all that the Sandusky story exploded and Posnanski, while living a journalist’s dream in terms of being at the nexus of a story, had to abandon the Kindly Old Joe storyline in favor of the sordid truth.
I always assumed the creeps actions were never clearly explained to coach since the staff was in
Awe of the coach and just not capable of telling this dignified old gentleman the real facts here .
Is it possible that a person could be so wrapped up in a sport like football while leading a conservative family-oriented life, that he wouldn’t comprehend what was going on with Sandusky and little boys?
And if you believe that Paterno did not know what sodomy meant, I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
Perhaps Paterno should not have been allowed to run the Penn St. football program with his obviously diminished mental faculties. The administration was such a bunch of weenies when it came to Paterno and let him run all over them.
Ooops -- there goes one of the lynchpins of the hate Paterno crowd.
Pretty pathetic.
Both that they would try it, and the man they are trying it for.
I don’t if he did not know about screwing young men up the .... Joe was responsible for what happens in his team. That is why you get the big bucks.
Didn’t he attend Brown to become a lawyer? He knows what omniscient means but not sodomy? Come on.
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Irregardless of Joe Pa its just unfathomable that a college coach like Sandusky would even have perv sex with young boys and no less mess around with them on campus. On the other hand gay marriage has nearly become a holy sacrament to these liberal run universities. FUBAR!
Thank you for posting this article!
Poor Joe. Just another victim. So sad.
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Is it any wonder that people begin to act like they belong there when placed on a pedestal.
The Paterno family are as shameless as their patriarch. They need to be ostracized.
I knew what sodomy meant before I knew what omniscient meant!
No, everyone living that long had knowledge of pedophilia existing. He also knew Sandusky’s preliection. However, the term “sodomy” used legally is unclear. He could,have been asking whether in this case it referred to oral or anal.
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Total BS. Paterno was an English major out of Brown University.
Don't even try to tell me he didn't know what it means. I might agree that he couldn't believe an old friend like Sandusky could do that, but I ain't buying that he didn't know what it means or that some 'old men' are sick enough to do that.
Joe didn't grow up in Mayberry. He was from freaking Brooklyn.
What was permitted to happen at PSU was horrible and I wish those involved to get the max in sentencing. That does not absolve some of you of your emotionally addled judgements and assumptions. Shame on you too.
I suggest it is possible for someone not to know the fine points of sodomy, and still do the wrong thing.
No, I am not part of the Paterno family, but I did grow up in central PA, and can state for a fact that you would have to explain exactly how a man can be raped by another. I am a survivor of childhood molestation and know the dilemma much more than I would wish on someone else.
My heart goes out to the victims, for it is a lifetime sentence.