Sunday, July 22, 2012

Paterno Statue Gone...

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"? 

Statue of famed Penn St. coach Paterno taken down

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."

Read more:  http://www.wralsportsfan.com/college_football/story/11342004/

1 comment:

Dale Marks said...

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

Post a Comment

Comments are welcome as long as they are civil and on the topic.