The Godfather of Football's legacy is dead. Joe Paterno's statue is gone. Some would argue death was justice for the cover-up he participated in. And no one really could argue back. What's worse: the crime or the cover-up? I don't know how you could separate them. Especially in this case. Ok, any case! To know this atrocity is going on and simply do nothing about it? How horrible of a human being was "Joe"?
Workers lifted the 7-foot-tall statue off its base and used a forklift to move it into Beaver Stadium as the 100 to 150 students watching chanted, "We are Penn State."
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Statue of famed Penn St. coach Paterno taken down
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant.Workers lifted the 7-foot-tall statue off its base and used a forklift to move it into Beaver Stadium as the 100 to 150 students watching chanted, "We are Penn State."
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I have no sympathy for pedofiles nor enablers. That being said I would have liked to have seen a more thorough investigation of the facts before penalizing everybody. Seems to me Freeh drew conclusions not facts in his investigation.
I am still not convinced papa Joe knew the whole story
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