Give Joepa the Horrific, Silent, Back-turned Send off He Deserves

Submitted by xtramelanin on

Mates,

With as much as this blog and fan-base detests to our dying day the horror that Joepa knowingly allowed for decades under his watch, maybe we really can make a statement about it.   There are multiple mgobloggers in every section of that stadium come Saturday, and it just doesn't seem that difficult if a few per section took literally a few minutes before the game to relay a simple message:  When PSU comes out don't boo, don't make a sound, simply turn your back like Joepa did to the child molestor!

Even drunks would understand that.  It would be rather newsworthy and draw the proper attention - silence and backs turned by 100,000+ fans.  Shame the child molestors and their sex-offender-loving fan base.  

It might be pie in the sky, but heck, if WD can take Brandon down, why not let our voices be heard in the silence.  A few signs, a few encouragements to the crowd as they file in to get their tickets scanned, a bit of yelling in the stands between the rawk music selections during warm ups, and you just might get it done.   

What do you think?

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expatriate

September 21st, 2016 at 8:47 AM ^

it makes the protesters feel accomplished but ultimately accomplishes nothing except trying to shame the athletes about their university? Coming from another fanbase it again will not achieve its intended result. Call me crazy but I care about whether the message communicates to the receiver what it's intended to.

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Skapanza

September 21st, 2016 at 9:53 AM ^

I see value in the effort to demonstrate that, while PSU is content to continue to selectively celebrate Paterno's legacy, the rest of the CFB world does not have to go along with their alternate reality.

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PeterKlima

September 20th, 2016 at 9:44 PM ^

What are you really accomplishing? JoePa is dead. Everyone knows what happened to those kids was horrible. You are turning your back on some college kids playing football who had nothing to do with anything? Focus your attention in the right direction. Otherwise, you are just making things worse.

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PeterKlima

September 20th, 2016 at 10:35 PM ^

By thinking that disrespecting the current team helps victims in any way. it just send a message to the wrong group (PSU players) and that is a misguided way to treat kids. So, that makes matters worse. Donate money for victims or their legal teams. Do something that isn't misguided.

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The Mad Hatter

September 20th, 2016 at 10:43 PM ^

Every PSU player is an adult. Christ, I was married with a kid on the way @ 21. No one thought I was a kid. The only kids we should be worried about in this situation are the ones who had their lives destroyed to protect the PSU football program. If the players are uncomfortable with that reality, perhaps they should play somewhere else.

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East German Judge

September 20th, 2016 at 11:40 PM ^

Why in the fuck did these kids decide to attend joepa u???  The vast majority all no doubt had scholarship offers to play at schools where the prior staff did not enable a pedophile!!!

BTW, FUCK penn state and all their delusional joepa loving fans and their stupid ass players who decided to attend!!!

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HateSparty

September 20th, 2016 at 11:09 PM ^

Disrespecting the entire protected culture, not "the kids". You should pause a moment and try to empathize with the adult who was a child who was sodomized by a predator and the one man powerful enough to never let that happen and chose to enable is celebrated by an entire culture at PSU. Try to feel that disrespect a moment. If you can and then you can say the disrespect proposed here is unjust, then face forward and clap for them. Encourage. Doing nothing is the same.



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xtramelanin

September 21st, 2016 at 5:34 AM ^

cat call all day long, ('cheap shot number XX!' or 'you s*%K!", and many others), yet you think its too disrespectful to shame a pedophile university?  so if hitler showed up at the olympics, would we have had to give him a polite clap as he is seated in the grand stands? 

peter, that seems like a strangely inconsistent manner of worrying about 'disrespect'.  

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Skapanza

September 21st, 2016 at 9:56 AM ^

If everyone knows what happened to the kids was horrible, then why on earth was there a glorious retrospective of the wonderful JoePa in Happy Valley last week?

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gbdub

September 21st, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^

Apparently not everyone knows what happened is horrible, because the college kids continue to cheer JoPa's legacy, and think 409 is the most important number (instead of the number of victims)



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reddogrjw

September 20th, 2016 at 9:53 PM ^

by CHOOSING to go to PSU, they are saying things are OK in Happy Valley - they are not

 

just like people who CHOSE to commit to a team in a conference that voted to ban satellite camps then bitch about them being banned - sorry, you are part of the problem too

 

those still going to play at PSU and help PSU "celebrate" JoePa do NOT get sympathy from me for having JoePa and the tone deaf university's actions tossed back at them

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WolverineHistorian

September 20th, 2016 at 9:56 PM ^

As cool as an entire stadium turning their backs would look, I don't really see the point.  We're not honoring that man at the big house on Saturday.  His name will not be announced over the speakers. 

Don't get me wrong.  I despise Penn State, Paterno, his dumbass son Scott and those horrible Joe-bots.  I'd love it if they were kicked out of the big ten.  But turning your back on a team that isn't being coached by JoePa, players that have never played for JoePa, just doesn't really have the same effect as if JoePa were there.  

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Perkis-Size Me

September 20th, 2016 at 10:11 PM ^

Not really sure what it accomplishes. Everyone on the team or associated with the team that was around with Paterno is long gone, dead, or in jail.

Maybe some people here feel differently, but I don't see the point in turning my back to players and coaches who had nothing to do with that scandal.



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HateSparty

September 20th, 2016 at 11:02 PM ^

I am not sure Franklin or his coaches are not above culpability as it pertains to honoring a pedophile culture on their watch. Observe the behavior of the NCAAi n North Carolina. That too is quiet yet powerful. It is the beauty of a compassionate and civil society. My back will be turned. I plead to you to do the same. The victims deserve no less.



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The Bos of Me

September 20th, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^

As a former victim of a child (clergy) predator, I can tell you that a group taking a stance like his can make a difference. Are there better way to impact this cause? For sure, but so not underestimate the impact you can have.

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Tim Watley

September 20th, 2016 at 10:19 PM ^

Didn't Michigan charge more for single-game tickets to this game than most of the other home games?

Instead of seeking additional profit from playing Penn State, it should refuse to play the game.

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Eck Sentrik

September 21st, 2016 at 8:45 AM ^

Signed:

Gahndi

Rosa Parks

The Singing Revolution

The March on Washington

The Bonus Army

The Flint Sit-In

That Tianamen Square dude with bowling ball size jewels

No, I am not comparing all of these historical protests to us turning our backs at a football game. My point is that the same idiotic arguments against, or discounting the value of were made about these as well.

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NittanyFan

September 20th, 2016 at 10:28 PM ^

which, as I posted here on the Monday after the game, was a perfectly delightful experience as a visiting fan.  I spent 14 hours in Ann Arbor from arriving at a tailgate to (finally) leaving a traffic-clogged parking lot on State Street.  There was no talk about David Brandon or Freeh Reports or Sandusky.  There are/were forums to discuss those things: that particular Saturday afternoon was not that forum.

I know I'm a guest here, and neg-bomb me all you want --- but there are some folk here who are getting a bit obnoxiously self-righteous of late.  The Penn State community has a wide diversity of opinions as regards Paterno.  It is not the "100% of the PSU community is JoeBots" which some here believe is the truth.  

You should all be proud to be members of the University of Michigan community.  But I, and tons of other PSU folk, are proud to be members of the Pennsylvania State University community.  Bad things no doubt happened in the past, but I do believe that the PSU administration and most PSU folk are working toward a better future.  And though getting to that better future is an imperfect process (Saturday's commemoration, as I've said before, wasn't something I loved but I did tolerate it as a low-risk attempt to throw Paterno Loyalists a bone), I'm 100% confident we will get there.

With that, I'm not commenting further in this thread (or on this topic as a whole this week).

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HateSparty

September 20th, 2016 at 10:55 PM ^

This is why the protest is necessary. There are still so frustratingly many like you who will not accept what objective observers do: You are lifting up a person who knowingly passively allowed a pedophile to abuse children. If that honoring doesn't happen then the protest is without merit. It did, however, so drawing a dark cloud over all Nittany Nation is a just response.



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M-Dog

September 20th, 2016 at 11:13 PM ^

As someone who grew up in PA, had both my brothers go to Penn State, and followed Penn State and Joe Paterno since the '70s, I'm very dissapointed with how the PSU administration is handling this.

That tribute last week was the most tone deaf thing ever.  Things were perhaps starting to settle down and BOOM, the PSU administration inflamed it all over again.  On purpose.

Paterno betrayed Penn State.  Penn State owes him nothing.  This episode is a black stain on Penn State's history.

You (and I) would like Penn State to attone for past sins, turn a clean page, and move on to a beter future.  But its very own administration won't let it.

Penn State is a large, diverse, world class university that is defined by more than just one person.  Joe Paterno does not get to define Penn State to the world . . . unless they keep insisting he does.  

 

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WolverineHistorian

September 21st, 2016 at 12:22 AM ^

It will be many, many years before PSU will even try to attempt to move on from JoePa. They are sort of trapped between the sensible people who know the school and Paterno are separate entities and the former players and alumni/donors who choose to ignore reality, and who would have hit the roof if there was no tribute for JoePa's 50th anniversary. The school had to choose whether to anger the alumni with no tribute or anger the rest of the country by having the tribute. They made their choice.

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bluebyyou

September 21st, 2016 at 5:30 AM ^

This large, diverse community you talk about, did they have the balls to stand up to the PSU administration before last week's game and protest honoring the pedophile enabler or did they just go on their merry way doing nothing?

If it's the latter, I'd suggest your talking out of your ass.  The only reason the administration took the course of action that it did is because there was a lack of opposition.  Something about alumni donations perhaps?  

Pal, if that is what is driving the adminstration's decision, I'd suggest that your use of the term "world class university" is hardly appropriate.

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M-Dog

September 21st, 2016 at 7:45 AM ^

As we know ourselves with Brandon and his cronies, it only takes a few people in highly placed positions in an institution to override everybody else.  It does not change until they are removed.  As we also know, this is not easy and it takes a long time as factions fight back and forth.  There is no simple Off button. 

There are a lot of Penn State people that want to excommunicate Joe Paterno as the face of Penn State.  But they are not running the show, especially in the Athletic Dept.

I make no apologies for them, I'm just explaining it.  They are in charge and are making unethical and incredibly tone deaf decisions.  

So they get what they deserve.

To your point, if they keep propping up Paterno as the face of the university, it will not be a "world class university", it will just be a sick joke.

It's their decision.

 

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