I probably should have posted this article and this article about John Matko, who dared to stand in the middle of Curtin Road, a few yards from Beaver Stadium, on the day of the Nebraska-Penn State game.
The Penn State graduate's cap had black tape over the logo. His handwritten sign said "put abused kids first," "the kids are what this day is about, not who wins or loses," "honor the abused kids by canceling this game and the season."
He was greeted with obscenities, thrown cups of beer, a slap, from Penn State fans.
And I couldn't find the *really* detailed article about all of the things that were said and done to him.
So, yeah, I can see a bunch of Penn State fans hounded this kid out of school for being Victim #1, the kid who was orally sodomized multiple times, and more. The kid who asked his mother about sex freaks, causing her to question why he wanted to know. The mother who contacted school officials. The school where two coaches spoke openly and frankly with investigators regarding their concerns with Sandusky.
What is interesting is that the Sports Illustrated Special Issue on this subject said that Steven Tuchetta, the coach who reported the sexual abuse of Victim #1, was now a hero in the town for simply doing what was required; something Penn State didn't do.
It appears Sports Illustrated wrote too quickly. Or maybe the coach is still revered (I doubt) and the vile attacks are only against the poor kid who was assaulted multiple times by Sandusky.
Penn State football. Gotta love those priorities.
They were actually selling obscene buttons claiming “It don’t mean nuttin’” to the Penn State student body and some fools were wearing them until the school administrators came to their senses and ordered the sales stopped. The bozos don’t realize that they have a very badly damaged brand throughout the rest of the country (none of the bowl games want them) and all the piling on of the innocents and brushing off the evil that happened will only make a bad situation worse.
"Abuse flew at Matko from young and old, students and alumni, men and women. No one intervened. No one spoke out against the abuse."
"One disapproving student said, 'Not now, man. This is about the football players.'"
"And with those nine words, we see the truth about Saturday’s enterprise. It was about the football program, not the children. It was morbid theater where people were mourning the death of a jock culture that somewhere along the line, mutated into malignancy. It’s a malignancy that deprioritized rape victims in the name of big-time football.
Comments from anyone attending the game? Anyone? Bueler? Bueler?