Joe Paterno, 85, dies in State College

[BigD_95]

147. I hate to bash the dead but...

I have never been a fan of Joe Paterno in the world of sports.

Not sure if people know this that don't follow sports but ESPN did a whole special on PSU football team and all the arrest & trouble the players have been in over a course of like 10 years. ESPN did that on PSU because it was a crazy amount more then other Football colleges.

Yet Joe is consider some great icon.

I remember when around 5 football players broke into another person's house and beat the crap out of the kid. Joe Pa wouldn't let the school punish the kids. Instead he made them clean the football stadium.

He had local law in his back pocket and when kids got in trouble they went to him and he would handle it and keep it quiet.

The kid that got beat up by the players received death threats from other students if he pressed charges. This stuff went on all the time with his players. Most of the stuff was kept quiet because even after being assaulted if you spoke out the entire student body would turn on you if they felt it would cost them players & games. That's how bad it was.

Then Joe Pa himself when girls got assaulted would blame the girls. Women's groups used to speak out against him but nobody listen. Football was the only important thing. Against Fl St in a BCS game several years ago the head coach of Fl St sent his top defensive player a LB home before the game. He went back to a girls room late a night. The girl claimed she was assaulted. Joe Pa blamed the girl. Said that players shouldn't go back with girls at night because they trick the players and what should girls expect bringing a guy back in their room that late at night.

There is so many countless players getting away with crap on that team year after year.

By the way it wasn't that long ago Joe Pa himself ran down some lady in her car. I think actually ran her off the road and cussed her out for her driving. Yes Joe Pa with road rage.



http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/23871-paternos-road-rage-incident


I'm not saying everything he did was bad I just always felt his God like image he had was so fake. All the news that broke with what he did or didn't do just put the spot light on the real Joe Pa. Winning meant more then anything else. Even all those kids he could have helped.