The "end" of Paterno, who this author told ESPN is State College...[shame on this community for making a man into an idol!]
The end of many admin & coaching careers
The end of its best recruiting years
The end of some of its sponsors
And perhaps, just perhaps...the end of football-as-campus idolatry -- well at least @ State College, but not elsewhere [well, that's probably wishful thinking]
Weinreb did an on-air interview with ESPN, which linked to the above article. He told ESPN that something went morally haywire at Penn State. He also put the focus first on the victims, which I thought was quite sensitive of him.
Weinreb concludes: The place where I grew up is gone, and it's not coming back.
From the article: I can't add a lot to what's been written about the facts of the burgeoning scandal at Penn State, except to tell you how strange it feels to type the phrase "burgeoning scandal at Penn State." I know that I'm in denial. I know that I'm working through multiple layers of anger and disgust and neurosis and angst. I know that I'm too emotionally attached to the situation to offer any kind of objective take, though I don't think I realized how emotionally attached I was until this occurred. I never understood how much of an effect both football and a sense of place had on my persona. I apologize if what follows seems disjointed, because I am still coming to terms with the fact that this is real. "What can I say?" my mom wrote me from State College on Monday afternoon. "We're sort of going around in a daze."
Homosexuals do tremendous damage. The idea that they are just like everyone else is false. They are mentally ill, and relentlessly destructive.
Since I’m not a sports fan, perhaps someone could clue me in to exactly what happened at Penn St.
“He also put the focus first on the victims, which I thought was quite sensitive of him.”
That was quite sensitive of him because the perspective on this story from the press is all about poor Joe Paterno, poor head of the college, etc. I heard a quote from a guy on the radio this morning (I did not catch who he was) who said something to the effect of the greatest damage in this scandal was to the foundation that the molester founded. I just about screamed at the radio “what about the kids?”. Everybody seems to be focused on the poor college and no one is even thinking of the victims. I have no connection to Penn State and couldn’t care less about their integrity or anything else. What I care about are the young boys molested by this perverted monster.
I read this story and I cried.
Good intentions stikes again.
Great post...and aside from the many obvious lessons here, there is another one, one which we Freepers and good conservatives everyone understand: beware the cult of personality.
Why was Paterno allowed to stay so long? Was he blackmailing PSU by threatening to expose Sandusky and the administration if they fired him?
Penn State has such a “party” reputation that many top students living in state do not even apply. It needs a huge overhaul.
One thing that keeps coming up in my mind though, for some reason. A few years back, there were recordings of the Student Section at Beaver Stadium singing the Alma Mater, except they didn't know the words, they weren't in the program, and the scoreboard couldn't display such things, so instead they were singing loudly “We don't know, the G-D’md words” to the music. PSU forgot to teach their students about the Alma Mater. I think that was a sign of how PSU was losing its way, and I think they forgot the words (and meaning) themselves. Very sad. That said, Spanier needs to resign, Paterno needs to resign, McQuery needs to resign, and Curly, Shultz and Sandusky need to pay the price for their crimes. Oh, and Sandusky’s ‘charity’, the Second Mile, needs to be shut down, so the donors money can be freed up for other worthwhile endeavors.
The damage done by this homosexual pedophile cannot be understated. I double-checked my FR homepage to make sure I had no reference to being a Penn state graduate and then I wondered, what about all the graduating seniors who have to put “Penn State” on their resumes?
Yikes. If people think an employer won’t grimace just a little when seeing “Penn State” on a resume and hire instead the other, equally qualified college graduate from some other college, they are deluding themselves. that institution, Penn State, has just been knocked for one hell of a loop. The only conceivable remedy as far as I’m concerned is for EVERYBODY to go.
We fail to understand the depth of the ramifications caused by sexual immorality. We were not created to be sluts, whores, wolves and pimps. We were created to be the opposite of that.
For example, adultry shatters love and trust every day and often times results in divorce wrecking a child’s home and sense of security forever. Casual sex after a night at the bar can result in life changing and devasating consequences in disease and in abortion (killing of your baby, guilt, sorrow, regret...) or the hard life and poverty of single motherhood. A man gets to serve 18 years as ATM dad.
And then there is child abuse and that really does include teen boys who are manipulated into sex by homo predators. It is life shattering for a boy and the fear of anyone finding out and condemining you is awful. Also the doubt and confusion that is implanted at a key time of a boy developing his own sexual sense of self is horrendous in consequences.
Each one of these earth shattering experiences touches everyone we know and love. It twists who we are; strips innocense and defrauds love. Soon the whole earth is a majority of the walking wounded of sexual perversion.
Thanks for posting this essay.
If Sandusky had just “married” some 21 y old boy-toy and adopted some kids or had had twins with a surrogate egg donor, he’d still be a sports legend and community hero, and off having vacations with Mr and Mr Elton John or Rosie or Ricky Martin
The big deal is he liked his man-sex with minors and now everyone acts shocked, shocked I tell you...at the human moral damage he inflicted
I cannot tell you how many people lined up at our local mall last weekend (with children even) to pay money to pose with Tim Gunn- who is making a “celebrity” fortune being a bitchy prissy gay man
When primetime TV boasts this week of its first gay sex scenes featuring teenage actors (”Glee”) - I just don’t get the shock and dismay ... if Sandusky liked girls would there be the same revulsion?
Coincidently or maybe not. From 2000-2004 Penn State had their worst win-loss record (26-33) over any 4 year period in the history of the program. If this scandal would have come out then JoePa surely would have been gone as there was already a clamor to fire him over his losing ways.
I remember that game against Miami....it was the ultimate battle between “Good and Evil”. Here was cocky Miami, wearing battle fatigues and thugging it up, against nice, wholesome Penn State. And when Penn State won, it was great, the Evil Empire had been defeated.
Now, looking back, who was the evil empire, after all?