Penn State will Honor JoePa before Temple Game
I'm sure this will cause no controversy whatsoever. /sarcasm
BREAKING: Penn State will officially honor Joe Paterno before the Temple game, per the updated promotional schedule. https://t.co/5Lh1n8UkRd
— Onward State (@OnwardState) September 1, 2016
Note: the Temple game isn't until September 17th.
UPDATE: Ace just retweeted this
If you suspect a child is being abused, please call The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-4453. https://t.co/Zq24bQ9P6Y
— Elika Sadeghi (@steakNstiffarms) September 1, 2016
September 1st, 2016 at 3:22 PM ^
perhaps they are honoring JoePa in remembrance of temple's 10 sacks last year against PSU...or PSU's 27-10 loss to temple for the first time since before Pearl Harbor...I did piss off a number of PSU fans last year when I wore my temple hat with maize everything else for the Michigan game at beaver stadium...
September 1st, 2016 at 3:22 PM ^
Boy, I wonder what East German Judge is going to have to say about this. . .
September 1st, 2016 at 3:43 PM ^
"BTW...FUCK penn state and their delusional joepa loving fans"
September 1st, 2016 at 3:22 PM ^
I'm going to be boycotting PSU games this year, with the exception of when they play Michigan, because I'm not going to let them detract from my love of our school. Other than that, though, I don't want to have a damn thing to do with them. They need to have their program permanently banned. No repentance, no contrition, not even basic comprehension. They need to go away, forever.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:29 PM ^
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September 1st, 2016 at 4:28 PM ^
Yeah, I did a Master's program there back in 2008-2010, which is when I started posting on MGoBlog. Dark times on the sports side, but thank goodness for that Tate Forcier game - that kept a lot of Domer mouths shut when I walked by with my block-M hat! :)
Rivalry aside, though, I had a great experience there & made some of my best friends during that time. Hope you're having a good ND experience as well!
September 1st, 2016 at 3:22 PM ^
The media is literally going to create a giant tire fire in happy valley this weekend.
Breathe that shit in Penn State.
September 1st, 2016 at 4:03 PM ^
That's not how the word "literally" works.
September 1st, 2016 at 4:16 PM ^
Clearly OP meant literally in the figurative sense of the word.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:23 PM ^
Is it too late to bring back the sanctions? My God.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:34 PM ^
I don't know if the NCAA is allowed to burn everything down and salt the fields.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:41 PM ^
They blew it the first time around with sanctions that were less than the death penalty.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:25 PM ^
Further evidence that PSU is the most insular major college campus in the country. Where else would this possibly fly?
BTN should completely ignore it - no mention whatsoever. Unless they decide to call them out on it, which is doubtful.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:53 PM ^
I think not
September 1st, 2016 at 4:13 PM ^
this is creepy
September 1st, 2016 at 3:24 PM ^
I can't believe the NCAA or Big Ten is not stepping in and saying " What are you thinking"
September 1st, 2016 at 3:26 PM ^
Are greg schiano and tom bradley invited too?
September 1st, 2016 at 3:31 PM ^
Hey, you know that horribly embarrassing fiasco we enabled? Let's get the media talking about it all over again. Wouldn't that be neat?
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September 1st, 2016 at 3:56 PM ^
Way to turn a 1 day story into a 1,728 day story.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:33 PM ^
Oh are they giving out the Scumbag Enabler Award already?
September 1st, 2016 at 3:33 PM ^
It seems to be a rather insensitive decision. Have they invited the families of those involved to provide their perspectives?
September 1st, 2016 at 3:34 PM ^
fuck yourself Pedo State. You and all your delusional cultist fans. I hope you all choke on a rotten bag of dicks.
I seriously cannot verbalize the amout of hatred I have for the Pedo State Nittany Pedophiles, their school, their administration, their fans and everything associated.
I hope to GOD this astoundingly insensitive display of support for child rape gets cancelled and the University gets fined elenty billion dollars for this asinine tripe.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
September 1st, 2016 at 3:38 PM ^
at Penn State refuse to acknowledge the fact that Paterno failed those children. It's all about Success with Honor* and the Grand Experiment and Paterno's 409 wins.
They call the victims liars. The call McQueary (graduate assistant who witnessed one sexual assault and reported it to Paterno in 2001) a liar. They ignore Paterno's statements under oath that McQueary told Paterno it was sexual.
They claim that everybody (who disagrees with them and finds fault with Paterno's lack of action) is a hater and that we all somehow are jealous of Paterno's greatness and success.
It's a sick twisted place that makes the SEC sickos look like fair weather fans.
*legal minimums apply
September 1st, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
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September 1st, 2016 at 3:41 PM ^
And I will Boo in protest until I pass out, I'll get up, and then Boo some more. Then leave. I hate PSU. Hatred like no other.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:43 PM ^
because........? What is the actual point. I mean no matter why that school thinks that by doing this short of erecting a new statue, and that they will feel better about their past even while the history has been written, how does this clean the slate?
September 1st, 2016 at 3:47 PM ^
performing a half-time tribute to Bill Cosby? Wonder how PSU fans would feel about that?
September 1st, 2016 at 3:48 PM ^
September 1st, 2016 at 3:55 PM ^
Fine, I get the outrage ....... but it could be something as simple as a 60-second video montague (that focuses on the players that Paterno coached) during a commercial break while mentioning that September 17, 2017 is the exact 50 year-anniversary of Paterno's first game as Penn State head coach.
Let's wait and see. I tended to think something or other might happen, simply because of the way the calendar broke this year, being the exact 50-year anniversary and all. The Paterno Loyalists have seized on that calendar coincidence in terms of demanding some sort of recognition from the University.
I'm not a Paterno Loyalist --- but they do exist and they do donate. I'm fine if the University feels like throwing them a small bone.
I'll wait to see exactly how large that bone is.
September 1st, 2016 at 4:05 PM ^
Yup, just because the University gets a few bucks from some sicko Paterno fans, let them embarass themselves nationally. You know when ESPN talks about this, Sandusky's picture will be plastered over the screen and PSU will again relive this.
But... it's worth a donation from "Paterno Loyalists". Yup.
September 1st, 2016 at 7:37 PM ^
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September 1st, 2016 at 8:32 PM ^
the promotion is officially titled "Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Coach Joe Paterno"...
- Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Coach Joe Paterno - Activities during the game will take place to commemorate Joe Paterno's first game as the head football coach at Penn State -- September 17, 1966.
http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/m-footbl-promotions…;
An enabler of child rape is still being put on a pedestal and worshipped...it's disturbing. PSU people don't get it or just don't care.
The time has passed for punishment, but every time PSU goes on the road. wherever they go, the team hosting them needs to have a drive to raise funds for child abuse prevention. I'm pretty sure the home team would collect more than the $22k PSU raised during a game in 2011 (seriously $22k in a stadium that holds more than 100k people). Fuck PSU.
September 1st, 2016 at 8:49 PM ^
has --- as of this moment --- any idea exactly what this "commemoration" will be.
(1) It could be Penn State rolling out a 100-foot gold statue of Paterno and saying it will be peremently placed outside of Beaver Stadium.
(2) It could be Penn State bringing some of Joe Paterno's players on field in between the 1st and 2nd quarters, while mentioning that it is the exact 50th anniversary of his first game as head coach.
(3) It could be something else.
The PSU football alumni were already planning to have some sort of event in State College on the weekend of the Temple game.
Event number 2 above is a perfectly plausible possibility for what occurs on the 17th. If it is, that's not something I'm losing sleep over. Neither am I losing sleep nor getting outraged over the next 16 days figuring out exactly what this "as-of-now vague commemoration" will be.
September 1st, 2016 at 11:06 PM ^
September 2nd, 2016 at 1:17 AM ^
"fawning video montage" about Paterno on September 17th.
You --- nor I --- know anything specific about what is planned for the 17th.
Now I may be wrong. But I anticipate that whatever occurs on the 17th will be very low-key and ----absent Penn State giving the rest of America 16 days to pay attention/work up outrage --- something that most of the country would have not paid attention to/gotten outraged about had it happened with no "advance warning."
As I said, I'm not a "Paterno Loyalist." But those folks have been loudly yapping for months about "the 17th is the exact 50-year anniversary, this must be commemorated in some fashion!" In pre-announcing this, Penn State shuts them up for the next 16 days.
Now, one thing is for certain: no matter what occurs on the 17th, the "Paterno Loyalist" folks will want MORE. Fair enough, but at least they can't say "Penn State just ignores us completely, blah blah blah."
It is what it is. The Penn State Community is very very very divided about the whole Paterno thing. Anyone who paints us Penn State folk as 100% JoeBots are 100% dead wrong. The "Paterno Loyalists" will die off eventually, but that will take at least 25 years. I have no doubt the Paterno Loyalists will lose in the long run. But in the meantime, sometimes people who love the entity (PSU) as a whole --- as I do --- must plug the nose and tolerate things like a "low-key commemeration" if it keeps the peace a bit.
September 2nd, 2016 at 3:39 AM ^
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September 1st, 2016 at 4:05 PM ^
I hope Temple shuts them out
September 1st, 2016 at 4:05 PM ^
September 1st, 2016 at 4:15 PM ^
My prediction: This doesn't happen as they currently plan. There will be continued backlash, including nonstop pestering by the media, plus Temple might start putting pressure on them behind the scenes. Before the game, PSU is going to adjulst or alter their plans -- water it down, or broaden it to include "all former coaches," or something or whatever to avoid the major PR disaster they are about to walk into. Like, what are recruits and their families going to think about this? Whoever did this is in total denial; but unless they are being led by Dave Brandon (!), someone in authority will wake up and realize this is NAGI (Not A Good Idea).
September 1st, 2016 at 4:26 PM ^
September 1st, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^
but I doubt anything that involves "Burning in Effigy" would fly.
I genuinely don't understand this. If something like this ever came out about Bo, I'd lead the charge in burning down Schembechler hall.
September 1st, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^
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September 1st, 2016 at 4:30 PM ^
There should be a statue of him looking the other way.
I hope they lose every game. Ohio State may be our rival, but Penn State is the team I hate the most. They're literally marginizing child sexual abuse by acting like it didn't happen or didn't matter. They are poison. I'd pay money for their program to be disbanded.
September 1st, 2016 at 4:46 PM ^