PSU Alums to erect a new JoePa statue
In yet another "what are they thinking" moment, a pair of Penn State Alums have received the OK from State College to erect a status of Joe Paterno. It would not be on campus but rather downtown, two miles from the original statue which was torn down a couple years ago. In this version, Paterno would be sitting on a bench reading Virgil's Aeneid.
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Isn't a wise thing to do.
be far behind?
I see it.
but reach around too!
a stop to these shenanigans. The reach around officially went too far.
I am over fondling the subject matter. I shall stop.
Penis.
Maybe a toilet would be a better location?
Is he covering his eyes ?
looking the other way.
simply outstanding.
On a totally unrelated subject, has anyone here been to the Fallen Monument Park in Moscow?
but I am going right after I get back from the parade in Tehran and the waterpark in Kabul.
What the hell are you talking about?!
its a mirage. I checked.
Bye Diddy mirage.
worked in Moscow in 2003. I checked it out.
If you go in the winter, like I did, it will be empty and gray, which is an appropriate way to experience all the eery memories housed there.
The Stalin comparison is a long stretch but I wouldn't be shocked if the Paterno statue is vandalized as well.
April 23rd, 2014 at 11:32 PM ^
been to Memento Park in Budapest. http://www.mementopark.hu/
Back in the late 1990s, they sold CDs of "Communism's Greatest Hits."
Still can't see the guy as the cover-up mastermind some make him.
...many people see him as a cover-up mastermind. I think people see him more as someone who failed to act.
There's no evil conspiracy, just a tragic sequence of events.
April 24th, 2014 at 10:52 AM ^
"There's no evil conspiracy, just a tragic sequence of events."
The trials of Schultz, Curley and Spanier have all been continually delayed. Notice how quickly Sandusky and the football program were scapegoated and severely punished.
Meanwhile, the trials of the administrators who ostensibly played a role in the cover-up have been practically dropped from the narrative of the mainstream press. You hear a lot about Sandusky, Paterno, whether or not the sanctions on the team were too harsh. Yet, there's almost no mention of the fact that President Spanier also has top secret government clearance.
There must be some very interesting behind-the-scenes posturing going on. If things were simple then these trials wouldn't have been delayed. The full truth would have been quickly brought to light by the judicial process.
Instead, the trials have been delayed and the names of the three administrators have been dropped from the public consciousness in favor of inane debates over the legacy of Paterno. Something fishy is going on and if you're curious to know the full scale then do some research on the franklin scandal coverup in Nebraska during the late 80s.
Paterno was not just derelict in his duties in failing to act, he also gave Sandusky access to PSU athletic facilities and thus gave his b.s. charity an air of legitimacy, enabling Sandusky to continue raping those boys.
Also, you could argue that firing Sandusky was a cover-up move - depends upon how you define "cover-up" I suppose.
"We are"...apologists.
No, really. I mean it.
EPIC TRIPLE POST.
Now there's a first for me.
You aren't looking hard enough.
neither, but you are going to get a healthy dose of irrational mobbing about how you support child molesters if you keep going down that road.
Here they come now.....
April 24th, 2014 at 12:09 AM ^
but I'm pretty much entirely sure that they should have torn down that statue.
At a minimum he was an enabler. He knew of the accusations and he allowed the man to continue to use PSU to come into contact with young boys through the foundation. Either way though, and no matter what good he did at PSU, the rest of the country will associate Joe PA with child molestation. If you were in charge of that university, would you want every televised game at PSU to also show a shot of a statue to a man the rest of the country views in that light and be reminded of that awful thing that took place at your university? Is that how you want your university to be remembered? This was by far the best thing for the university, even if the current alumni hate it.
would PSU Alums think that erecting another JoePa statue to worship is a good idea? I don't remember it ending well for the Egyptians
when they did the same thing back in Biblical times.
the Paterno statue will be slow to act.
Not a terrific idea IMO. You want to talk about ripping open fresh wounds. Give it a decade and then maybe.
the Penn State fanbase is VERY heavily divided these days --- the Paterno loyalists are generally the older folk whereas the "it's over, let's just deal with the penalties and move on" people are generally the younger folk.
But in such a divided atmosphere --- I knew something like this would happen eventually. The Paterno loyalists aren't going to give up. If anything, the NCAA penalties has given the Paterno loyalists a "martyr complex" and has made them MORE hardcore (something I thought might happen after Emmert went the nuclear bomb route with the penalties versus encouraging Penn State to be introspective and self-penalize themselves).
Anyway, the Penn State fanbase probably is going to have to deal with this schism for (AT LEAST) the next generation.
Is what it is.
Paterno as martyr...
/smh
Bad idea.
April 24th, 2014 at 12:02 AM ^
That must be a Spanish name
A statue of JoePa with his face buried in something trivial while not looking around makes poetic sense.
"I'm not involved so much in the politics," he said. "I'm an artist."
Well, I would say they chose the right artist then, someone undisturbed by the nature of the controversy and in need of a commission, I would imagine. If nothing else, he was forthright about this.
will be the model....
They revere this guy like he did anything more than just win. Like he was such a great community guy when in fact, every single coach who has a long tenure at a top 10 college football school gets heavily involved in that school's community. Every such coach also assumes the revered father figure role to his players.
Even taking the atrocity of his ignoring the pedophile in his midst so as not to disrupt his tidy little set up, Paterno wasn't even decent enough of a man to retire and reward one of his assistants with the throne, much as Bo did with Mo.
In so many ways, JoPa cared about JoPa.
Can't wait for the vandalism that will assuredly befall this ill-begotten statue.