Joe Paterno, 85, dies in State College

[Guy Montag]

133. This thread is interesting in how too seriously people take football.

I have sympathy for his family, but the fact is clear he let himself become too much a legend in his own mind.

He must have thought himself too valuable because he most certainly stayed too long at the job way past his prime.

He obviously thought himself too valuable to sully himself with the duty to deal with this child raping scoundrel, or was in too much of an age induced fog to pierce his own cognitive dissonance on the matter.

My condolences for his family, but a lesson people should also take away from this is people in general have a duty to help nudge people aside if they try to stay to long at a job that wears out a coach far younger than eighty five.

We all want to live forever, we all think of ourselves and irreplaceable, but the simple truth is we don't, and we are.