Joe Pa

[xsteve1]

Sounds like the end is near. Such a tragic way for him to go out.

[Kahns Krazy]

Tragic smagic. A life worth's of work is meaningless if you are too chicken shit to protect abused children. I hope it burns.

[STL_XUfan]

He has passed. RIP Joe Pa.

[Cheesehead]

He has passed. RIP Joe Pa.

ummm, where do you see that? I think the end is near but I see nothing online confirming this.

[STL_XUfan]

Huffington and CBS reported it, looks like they have now pulled their stories after family's spokesperson denied the report.

[Juice]

Tragic smagic. A life worth's of work is meaningless if you are too chicken shit to protect abused children. I hope it burns.

Ditto. Everyone painted him as a saint. The dude looked the other way on the sexual abuse of children and he ran his program like any other scumbag coach. He let his players skate on academic and behavioral issues.

[Snipe]

RIP Joe Pa.

If I was Joe Pa I would have wished it was six months sooner on my deathbed.

[LadyMuskie]

Tragic smagic. A life worth's of work is meaningless if you are too chicken shit to protect abused children. I hope it burns.


Ditto. Everyone painted him as a saint. The dude looked the other way on the sexual abuse of children and he ran his program like any other scumbag coach. He let his players skate on academic and behavioral issues.

Amen to both! We all answer to a higher power, and I wouldn't want to have to answer for the things he did and didn't do during his time here.

[xubball93]

I agree. I appears he took the easy way out and looked the other way with a pedophile on his staff and at his facility.

[Juice]

I guess Joe was kind of racist too

http://sportsradiointerviews.com/2011/11/16/penn-state-sex-scandal-matt-paknis-graduate-assistant-jerry-sandusky-sexual-abuse-children-joe-paterno/


If Paterno and the program was as squeaky clean and dignified as the public perceives:

“Well Mike, three things stick out in my mind from my experience from what I can remember, it was a long time ago. One is I grew up in a mixed neighborhood in New Jersey, and my first friend was African American, and I was in a staff meeting one time and we were having some problems at quarterback with Kisner, and someone recommended what about Darren Roberts? He was an All State quarterback from New Jersey. And Coach just said we’re not ready for a black quarterback. And we had Ron Dickerson in the room who was an assistant, and he just went ballistic which I always thought was pretty cool that he stood up to Joe. But Randall Cunningham was the starting quarterback at the time for the Eagles. But Darren never got a chance for us; I don’t know why, but that was stated in the room. So clearly that’s one incident where if any manager in corporate America said that, they’d be gone the next day. Another time, just the academic adviser coming over shaking his head and saying ‘it’s happening again.’ Coach would pull guys and make sure they were going to practice rather than going to class and he’d say ‘he can’t take that class, it’s during practice.’ So pretty much all the stuff that they projected was controlled spin.”