Breaking news: MSNBC Joe Paterno dies

[mfcorey1]

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Is he still dead?

[tallahasseedem]

2. It's sad that it ended this way.

RIP

[TwilightGardener]

3. Wow. That's pretty sad. Maybe the stress and shame of losing his reputation took a toll

on his health.

[pipi_k]

22. I agree, plus

coaching was his life and his identity.

When that all got taken away, I think he lost his will to live.

[TwilightGardener]

24. Yep. Without making any judgments about his role in the scandal, it's pretty obvious

that mental distress and losing your main purpose in life isn't going to help you fight an illness.

[Renew Deal]

4. I wonder if he'd still be with us if the scandal never came out.

Sad to hear he's gone.

[TheWraith]

10. Scandal doesn't usually cause lung cancer. nt

[pipi_k]

23. It doesn't, but...

if it was there all along, who knows if stress accelerated the disease.

Mental health has a huge impact on illness.

Plus, as I noted above, if his identity was so closely linked with his coaching, losing his job may have caused him to lose his will to live. Maybe he just gave up.

[Efilroft Sul]

5. "Paterno, who was preceded in death by his career last fall…" n/t

[PCIntern]

6. Pre-empted MTP here in Philly...local coverage

and it's gonna shake things up here in many ways.

[PCIntern]

9. MTP back on after about 5 minutes...

[MinervaX]

7. If he had lived

would he have been in any danger of prosecution from the Sandusky fall out?

[MineralMan]

8. This time, the reports are apparently true.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. RIP

It's sad that his career ended as it did.

[mfcorey1]

13. The comments on the ESPN website are brutal and so unnecessary.

http://espn.go.com/ncf/conversations/_/id/7489238/joe-paterno-ex-penn-state-nittany-lions-coach-dies-85-2-month-cancer-fight

[Whisp]

15. wow, that page is smoking

can't even read because it's scrolling so fast.

[MinervaX]

16. There is a pause button

[Whisp]

19. yes, I know :)

lots of anger and disgust and disgust at the anger there. whew!

[Son of Gob]

21. That's bound to happen when you cover up child rape.

[Lugnut]

14. May he rest in peace.

[SHRED]

17. sad?

Really?

He had 85 years on this planet the majority of which doing something he loved.

I don't find anything "sad" about him being caught enabling a sexual predator...but that's just me.


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[SHRED]

20. so it's not good...

...that the Penn State scandal came to the light of day?

Maybe you misunderstood me.

[Renew Deal]

25. It's sad that another human being is dead

And some are so emotionally vacant that they have no concept of loss.

[Son of Gob]

26. Not being sad a child rape enabler is dead does not make one emotionally vacant.