Joe Paterno has [NOT] passed away
Edit: Why the hell am I getting downvotes? I said he was dead because CBS Sports reported he was dead. I didn't realize that they were wrong...
http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34497800
ED:BISB - NSFMF. Mark Twain would have something to say about this.
January 21st, 2012 at 8:52 PM ^
Heart just skipped a beat..
January 21st, 2012 at 9:07 PM ^
Your memory will never be forgotten. thank you for your dedication to the sport we love so much. May God bless your soul, give peace and confort to your family, and forgive you for all your sins.
To Penn State Family: We all share your grief and pain. May God fill the void that you all must have right now.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:10 PM ^
Keep the god-talkin' to yerself.
January 21st, 2012 at 11:07 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 11:33 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 11:48 PM ^
January 22nd, 2012 at 12:25 AM ^
Pffft haha that entire interaction is hilarious.
I'm sorry if I'm being disrespectful. I don't often go to Michigan blogs on Saturday night in a solemn state of mind.
January 22nd, 2012 at 12:52 AM ^
January 22nd, 2012 at 1:10 AM ^
1. Religion is an inappropriate topic for this board. Minor references to deities are apparently acceptable, but imploring one's skyman to "bless your soul, give peace and confort [sic] to your family, and forgive you for all your sins" is going too far.
2. Religion is an inappropriate topic for this board. (See 1, above.)
3. Equality, bitch. Equality.
January 22nd, 2012 at 4:16 AM ^
Chill out, he wasn't trying to foce his beliefs on you. If that bothers you, you're in for a very rough life.
January 22nd, 2012 at 8:45 AM ^
I'm pretty sure you don't know what "topic" means.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:58 PM ^
So I guess he's not dead yet? Thoughts still with the family as they go through this no-mans time
January 21st, 2012 at 8:56 PM ^
a part of college football just died....
January 21st, 2012 at 8:56 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 8:57 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 8:57 PM ^
Wow. RIP Joe Pa, a legend through and through. You will be missed.
January 21st, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
Fuck. I knew this was coming but this sucks. Great coach, good human, one terrible mistake. Best wishes to his family
January 21st, 2012 at 9:00 PM ^
that spanned more than a decade and led to incalcuable pain for dozens of people.
I know he did a lot of very good things, and I know respect for the dead and all that,but we shouldn't minimize the enormity of his "mistake" just because he's passed away. It's as much a part of his legacy (if not moreso), than all the unquestionably good things he did.
January 21st, 2012 at 10:37 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 10:42 PM ^
to describe it as one specific act. It was over a decade of not saying anything, and the thing he was not saying anything about was the molestation of children.
To me, that outweighs a whole hell of a lot.
January 21st, 2012 at 11:26 PM ^
January 22nd, 2012 at 12:36 AM ^
Let's be honest here...........
The boys Sandusky chose were ones who would have otherwise been orphans with terrible quality of life. It's not like he was plucking these kids from prep schools on the east coast. There is an argument to be made that he was actually helping them out.
January 22nd, 2012 at 1:03 AM ^
This is the kind of throwaway account mgb needs more of.
January 21st, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
People close to him said he was afraid of quitting because he thought if he didn't have coaching to live for he might die. Sad to see that seems possibly true.
January 21st, 2012 at 8:59 PM ^
I choose to remember Joe Paterno for the small, dumpy agricultural college in the middle of nowhere that he turned into a major research university drawing 100,000 people for a football game, the countless lives he touched, the players he molded, and the family he raised.
There is a time and place to rehash the tragedy of Jerry Sandusky and his role within it, but this isn't it.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
The Sandusky tragedy needs to be discussed along with the rest of Paterno's legacy over the coming weeks and months. To do anything else does a disservice to those still living with the pain of the incidents.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:00 PM ^
Rest in Peace Joe Pa
January 21st, 2012 at 9:02 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 9:02 PM ^
Would've never guessed in a million years that this year would play out as it did. RIP JoePa.
January 21st, 2012 at 10:12 PM ^
January 22nd, 2012 at 5:05 AM ^
What you did there..
January 21st, 2012 at 9:02 PM ^
Would've never guessed in a million years that this year would play out as it did. RIP JoePa.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
This news really upset me. He has been coaching since day one of most of our lives. Sad sad way to go out. I will always respect him and look back on the goods and not this last year. Poor old guy.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
RIP Joe, you will be missed.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
Maybe not?
RT @markcviera: Dan McGinn, the Paterno family spokesman, at 8:57 p.m. on reports about Joe Paterno's death: "Absolutely not true."
January 21st, 2012 at 9:06 PM ^
God yelled at him to come to heaven the exact way he yelled "come to Penn State!!" in those Big 10 commercials. He is a legend.
EDIT: Maybe he told him to wait and hang out a while....
January 21st, 2012 at 9:05 PM ^
He was a legend RIP
January 21st, 2012 at 9:05 PM ^
RIP Joe Pa. He was so much more than the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Thoughts to the Penn State family.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:05 PM ^
That really stinks. I had no idea at the time, but I saw his final game as PSU's coach against Illinois. It was an amazing game in a weird October snowstorm. What JoePa did for Penn State was nothing less than amazing. He will be missed by all of college football.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:06 PM ^
RIP Joe Pa
January 21st, 2012 at 9:07 PM ^
January 21st, 2012 at 9:07 PM ^
He made some terrible decisions at the end, but he did the things the right way for fifty years in a world where too few people do.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:08 PM ^
He made one mistake. Yes, he should have gone to the cops, and he'll forever be tarnished by the incident for all time. We'll always associate him with Sandusky, and the PSU scandal, forever. But don't let that detract you from his coaching prowess, or the fact that he was a worthy adversary in the Big 10 for a prolonged period of time. He was an iconic coach, brought down by a scandal that he indirectly partook in.
RIP Joe.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:08 PM ^
Tragic day for college football.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:08 PM ^
Very sad to see his condition worsen over the last several years. Brings back tragic memories of Bo. College football lost another legend that helped shape the game into the greatest sport in the country, in my opinion.
January 21st, 2012 at 9:09 PM ^
RIP old fella. The good things you did won't be forgotten.