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Originally Posted by AnchorAlum
JoePa is from that old world. Don't tell me he didn't come out of a world that didn't include religiosity. Morals. Values. He grew up being taught better than that. I have to believe that about him. If his upbringing didn't teach him that it was better to risk "ruining" an adult's life in order to save a child's life, then who the rest of the country thought he was has been a sham for a very long time.
Like someone else said, we'll have to disagree on this.
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He also came from a world where you don't throw someone you have worked with, respected, and trusted for decades under the bus because you heard something second hand, no matter how repulsive that is. One of the top execs at NBC said much the same about OJ Simpson, who was a longtime friend of his.
I agree with psusue...Paterno ISN'T a god...that means he makes really messed up decisions sometimes. This ain't the first, I'm sure it's not the only. Like AzTheta said, you have NO idea how you will react when it happens to you. Put yourself in his shoes and think about what you would do if you heard, second hand, that your best friend of decades was doing this. I doubt very much that all of you would be as gung ho as you say Paterno should have been.
That all being said...my prediction is that we'll hear in 9 months that he's been suffering from Alzheimer's for years (kind of like how they attempted to salvage Reagan's fuckups in his second term).
Also, and I don't know if the Penn Staters will back me, but (and it's hard to get this unless you hear about Penn State on the news every day) I place WAY more blame on Spanier as far as the ball dropping than I do on Paterno.