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Former Penn State player Pete Curkendall: Joe Paterno "gave us a year, and you can't repay that"
York Daily Record ^ | 8-10-14 | Frank Bodani

Posted on 08/10/2014 8:03:26 AM PDT by FlJoePa

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To: FlJoePa

I am not sorry for anything I said.

You could have posted this story leaving Joe Paterno out of it.

He is not respected at all.


21 posted on 08/10/2014 9:14:31 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: FlJoePa

The liberals wanted Joe Paternos head...and they got it.


22 posted on 08/10/2014 9:18:03 AM PDT by RedwM
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To: eyedigress

He says vile things were posted. Sometimes the truth is vile.


23 posted on 08/10/2014 9:19:11 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: RedwM

Be sure to contribute to FR after your allowed to post that drivel.

Oh wait, a freeloader I see.


24 posted on 08/10/2014 9:20:37 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: RedwM

They got Spanier’s head also. So your contention is that the liberals wanted his head?


25 posted on 08/10/2014 9:20:47 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Nobody posted anything vile. What took place @ PSU is vile, they see that.


26 posted on 08/10/2014 9:22:15 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: eyedigress

” What took place @ PSU is vile, they see that.”

All this serves to refresh memories. I am remembering now about the boy JS would take out of class without his mother’s knowledge and how the school principle tried to get the mother to not alert the authorities.

Sickening culture in that city.


27 posted on 08/10/2014 9:27:08 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

It was power. Joe Paterno was the face of Pennsylvania and was a very good development coach.

He took the team to all of the accolades of college football.

He was very smart and talented. He was given all that could be done.

He let that bury him. He praised himself over GOD.

He knew it.


28 posted on 08/10/2014 9:32:21 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: FlJoePa

The reason people are hijacking your story is the same reason you posted it. A large number of your posts are meant to deify and protect Joe Paterno, and your user name reflects your devotion to him. Joe was a good coach who stayed longer than he should of, and the thought that somehow he had no powers over who was let into any part of Penn State, let alone the football program is ludicrous. I believe he was basically a good person, who let his vanity take over. He should have stepped down earlier when he began to accept questionable individuals into the program. PSU over the past 15 to 20 years was no better than most programs with covering up player incidents.


29 posted on 08/10/2014 9:41:20 AM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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its called normalcy bias...most people have and most people resist thinking the worse of people....especially older people....

I think Paterno got slammed for no real reason and obviously being in his late 70's and dying of cancer, and then dying, its hard to have your day in court....

besides...true colors....stories like these will not get the press that scandal do....

30 posted on 08/10/2014 10:56:57 AM PDT by cherry
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“I think Paterno got slammed for no real reason “

I think enabling a serial child molester is a ‘real reason’ ....


31 posted on 08/10/2014 10:58:52 AM PDT by TexasGator
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unless you have absolute proof of your insinuations then just cut it....Joe P was thrown into the mix because he was: a Cathlic....an old time coach...a coach of a good program....

he didn't get his day in court....just like all the dead priests accused of some action from 50 yrs ago...

all it takes nowadays is for some one to make an accusation and that person is immediately guilty....

we know who is guilty in the Penn state crap, he's in jail....

32 posted on 08/10/2014 11:00:28 AM PDT by cherry
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To: FlJoePa

I appreciated your posting and have sent it along to relatives....


33 posted on 08/10/2014 11:01:54 AM PDT by cherry
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To: FlJoePa

Maybe you should change your freeper name from one that doesn’t support someone that enabled the sexual assault of children. How can you possibly support someone that enabled the molestation of children?


34 posted on 08/10/2014 11:04:58 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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all you have is innuendo and rumor....I can tell you that my father would always think the best of anyone, and would never even imagine such evil,and I think Paterno was the same kind of quietly religious person and that is why even if he did hear about Sandusky, he would give him the benefit of the doubt....

besides....why don't you gang up on all the football players over the decades that were coached by Paterno and Sandusky?....if Paterno was so bad, why haven't the hundreds and hundreds of players come out against him?....

if Sandusky's actions were common knowledge, why did all those players stay silent?...

you see, its easy to attack an old dead guy but go after hundreds and hundreds of football players?..naw....

35 posted on 08/10/2014 11:06:43 AM PDT by cherry
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“all you have is innuendo and rumor....”

We have JP’s own words that he was told about the 2001 shower incident the day after it happened.


36 posted on 08/10/2014 11:14:19 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: cherry

So far I have only seen posts about Paterno. If you see any about any of the others involved, please let me know.


37 posted on 08/10/2014 11:17:57 AM PDT by TexasGator
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“....I can tell you that my father would always think the best of anyone, and would never even imagine such evil,and I think Paterno was the same kind of quietly religious person and that is why even if he did hear about Sandusky, he would give him the benefit of the doubt....”

He was told about JS in 2001. When this broke in the news his first public words were that we should give JS the benefit of the doubt. WTF. HE KNEW AND STILL PROTECTED JS!


38 posted on 08/10/2014 11:20:35 AM PDT by TexasGator
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According to one account, Paterno supposedly dismissed the story when he first heard of it, saying (words to this effect) that some kids had been fondled, as though it was nothing of import.

Character counts most when no one is looking.


39 posted on 08/10/2014 11:22:46 AM PDT by DPMD
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“Character counts most when no one is looking.”

True.

I still wonder if JS was just the tip of the iceberg and we will never know all that were involved in the sex ring.


40 posted on 08/10/2014 11:29:27 AM PDT by TexasGator
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