RIP JoePa
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- CygnusZero4
What a way for such an amazing life to end. Such a shame.
- randomname0
:(
- BattleAxe0
His lifeline was Football and they took that from him R.I.P
- arthur0
Shame that his legacy is completely ruined by his own shortcomings, but that's the way it is. He sleeps in the bed he made.
- ********0
jesus christ, arthur
- Whatever success he had as a coach are overshadowed by the fact he was a shitty person.arthur
- He wasnt a bad guy, but should have done more, and admitted that.CygnusZero4
- any guy who knows a boy is being raped and does nothing about is indeed 'a bad guy', CygPonyBoy
- arthur put it pretty well, actually. not as blunt as it could've been.Jaline
- What PonyBoy said.OSFA
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- CygnusZero40
He went to the higher ups when he found out. Years went by and he knew nothing was done about it. Should have contacted the police. Well in many peoples eyes he didnt do anything more to protect the university, which is really shitty of him if that's true, which we'll never know now.
Isnt it a crime when you find out about a crime and dont contact the police? If Joe wasnt going to be arrested he was definitely going to face many lawsuits from the families that would have seen him through to his death anyway even if he wasnt sick, so it was his own fault and he'll always be remembered for that now.
- It's called being complicit after the fact. And the crime was child-rape, so that's pretty bad. As bad as it gets. I call Cunt.mikotondria3
- ********0
so you guys think he went to... gulp... hell?
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- Gucci0
Not being an asshole, serious question: why is this man worshipped so? I don't get it.
The vitriol thrown his way by strangers is equally baffling. There seems to be a game of one-upsmanship in the who's-more-outraged-than-who department and he's the target.
He reported what he was told to his higher ups. Why the hell didn't the witness go straight to the cops, ffs? Of course Joe should have done more when he learned nothing was happening to Pedojer Sandusky, but the burden of responsibility goes around plenty.
- Literally millions of people have grown up following him over a 60 year career. Pretty amazing.CygnusZero4
- randommail0
Being some famous college football coach guy = +4 points
But,
not stopping child-rape that you admit to knowing about = -100,000 points
- waterhouse0
Agreed; university, diocese, whatever. You can never have too much pride to fight harder against pedophilia.
- BattleAxe0
if you have kept up with Reports , what the assitant reported to Joe was watered down account the asst. coach admited to watering it down because Joe was like 70+ at the time, what did Joe Pa really know no one will ever know, what he did was what he was suppose to do, the Asst Coach who saw it first hand did not even get fired
- the asst. Coach was fired after the seasonBattleAxe
- true********
- Gucci0
Was McQueary let go? He was supposed to coach the game after Joe was fired. If he's now fired, then good riddance.
Hearing about his e-mails going around after everything came to light saying "I made sure it stopped" made it worse in my opinion. He did NOTHING to make sure it stopped. Sandusky got a free pass because that ginge was scared.
- yeah he was fired as well. I tell you this much, there's plenty of people out there that think PSU fucked up in the handling********
- of all of this. Especially, now that he's dead. hmmm********
- yeah he was fired as well. I tell you this much, there's plenty of people out there that think PSU fucked up in the handling
- ********0
It's not about the 409 wins and titles, etc., it's about the lives he's positively affected. He's been a father to plenty of fatherless players, etc.
PSU is Joe Paterno.
- More than that, he was actually the most powerful person in PA.CygnusZero4
- you could be right about that, if he'd have been in politics, straight to the top, etc.********
- he was too smart for politics. once told Nixon no thanks to an award ceremony********
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/196…
President Richard Nixon attended the game along with several members of his staff and U.S. Representatives George H.W. Bush of Texas and John Paul Hammerschmidt of Arkansas, having announced that he would give a plaque to the winner, proclaiming it to be the National Champion — to the chagrin of observers who thought it premature to do so before the New Year's Day bowl games, and of fans of Penn State, which would also end the season undefeated. Arkansas took a 14-0 lead, and held it into the fourth quarter, but Texas came from behind to win, 15-14, and accepted Nixon's plaque.
Texas beat Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl Classic, and removed any doubt as to whether it deserved consideration as National Champion, although Penn State fans still insist that their team, also undefeated and winner of the Orange Bowl, was better. However, it is worth noting that the Cotton Bowl Classic first invited Penn State to play the Southwest Conference champions. The Nittany Lions declined the invitation, preferring to spend New Year's Day in warm Miami, where they defeated Big Eight champion Missouri. This decision was made while Ohio State was still ranked #1 with only one game to play, so at the time, it did not appear that a national championship was likely to be at stake. The 1969 Texas-Penn State conflict, never settled on the field, has been one of the major arguments in favor of a Division I-A playoff. Arkansas lost the 1970 Sugar Bowl to Ole Miss, led by Archie Manning. The entire Texas-Penn State debate and Nixon's involvement led to a quote from Penn State coach Joe Paterno, a conservative Republican, during a commencement speech at Penn State in 1974 about Nixon, "How could Nixon know so much about college football in 1969 and so little about Watergate in 1973?"
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http://espn.go.com/classic/s/add…
In 1975, Hayes faced Joe Paterno for the first time. The Penn State coach greeted him with, "Woody, you look great." Hayes responded by saying, "Well, what did you think I would look like?" and walked away steaming mad, thinking Paterno meant to play mind games.
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During the 2008 pre-football pep rally, Joe Paterno honored the achievements of the undefeated 1968 & 1969 PSU teams. He tells the story of how he tells the White House to "shove it" as they requested his presence to present him with a trophy for the longest unbeaten streak.---
Coming from a Conservative himself. HA HA!~ I think it was Richard Nixon, before they had a system in place for BCS.
