[BO Stinkss]

Poor Joepa. His legacy meant more to him than anything else.

[AD from SpringBay]

Yeah, too bad. Those little boys weren’t devastated at all.

[Lurker]

I hope he died in agonizing pain choking on his own bodily fluids. The price of his "legacy" was decades of child rape by one of his underlings that he countenanced.

They ought to dig up his corpse and feed it to wild dogs.

[napscoordinator]

Poor guy. He did EXACTLY what he should do and gets beat up. Not to worry though, he is up with God now and not down in this hell hole place where you are judged wrongly without even being wrong. God Bless Joe, his family and Penn State.

[allmendream]

His “legacy” certainly meant more to him than a little child rape going on in the Penn State showers.

That will be his legacy now. Hiring the eye witness who told him of the second manboy shower he had heard of involving Sandusky - and the two of them doing nothing for over a decade while Sandusky paraded boy after boy through the Penn State football facilities - using that as the currency with which he groomed his victims.

A rather putrid legacy.

[apillar]

Football was Paterno’s life, nothing else mattered or at least nothing mattered near as much, that was most likely the reason he was such a successful coach and ironically what ended up taking him down. His greatest strength also proved to be his greatest weakness and he ended up paying the price for it. I guess if there is a moral to the story it's not to get focused so much on something you love that you lose site of the “big picture” and what's really important in life.

[Nervous Tick]

>> In the book, Posnanski writes of Paterno: “This was his bad day”

I have a feeling Judgement Day is going to be interesting for ol’ JoePed too.

[ScottinVA]

Well, much of the nation is devastated over the fact he KNEW what the hell was happening and chose to “preserve PSU’s image” over seeking justice.

Lying sack of sh*t covered it all up to the very end.

[FormerLib]

It is a simple question, were those tears of regret as he realized that he had failed to do what he should have done to stop Sandusky or tears of sorrow that he’d been held responsible?

[ScottinVA]

'I don't know what I'm going to do with myself.'

Going public and telling the truth would've been helpful.

[Albion Wilde]

If he was very, very penitent before his death, maybe he got Purgatory instead of an immediate dive in the lake of fire.

[sagar]

Poor Joepa. Here is the most successful coach who should have retired in grace and honors, but was forced to take the fall. I cannot imagine what it was for him to deal in his final days. Nobody even talks about the real victim in this. Such a storied career taken down with such brutality. sarcasm

[bmwcyle]

I feel more sorry for Jerry’s victims.

[ScottinVA]

Does anyone really believe Paterno didn’t have unrivaled power on that campus and a memo to the university board of his express intents to fire Sandusky and report him to local authorities would’ve been ignored?

Bad news isn’t wine... it doesn’t get better with age. That’s one principle the vaunted Paterno didn’t bother to follow.

[servo1969]

I wonder if his butt hurt?

[camle]

bet some of them kids were pretty devastated, too. only they didn’t have legions of fans to support them, nor could they even show their devastation...

[chris37]

Oh well, that’s too damn bad.

Burn in Hell, Joe.

[IslamE]

Sacrificing children before the big game is what makes for a truly successful football program, just ask Joe, Joe knows!

[MamaTexan]

Book Paints Picture of a Devastated Paterno

GOOD!

[GOPJ]

In the book, Posnanski writes of Paterno: “This was his bad day. Later, one of his former captains, Brandon Short, stopped by the house. When Brandon asked, 'How are you doing, Coach?' Paterno answered, 'I'm okay,' but the last syllable was shaky, muffled by crying, and then he broke down and said, 'I don't know what I'm going to do with myself.'

Cliff jumping can be fun - of course, only once...

[publius911]

Paterno answered, 'I'm okay,' but the last syllable was shaky, muffled by crying, and then he broke down and said, 'I don't know what I'm going to do with myself.'
Poor Joepa. His legacy meant more to him than anything else.

A morality lesson for active or passive supporters of the minuscule pervert culture. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

Deviancy and abnormals have always been with us. Who would have thought that allowing them out of the closet would start a war for words like "normal" and "marriage?"

You are destined to lose, (militant) perverts.
Get used to it.