participant wrote:
Wow. His first few months out of coaching and he dies. Did his firing cause his death? Would he still be alive right now if he were the coach?
Not that uncommon. Andy Rooney died within a month of his retirement. No doubt Paterno has been under incredible stress since the scandal broke and that I'm sure exacerbated his deterioration considerably.
A family has lost their husband, father and grandfather. There is no place for your undignified comments.
None of us are getting out alive champ. Life and death are as human as success and failure. Paterno lived a good life. He died a good death at home with his family I imagine.
May look similar, but I think the way it worked was probably different. If Bryant and Rooney retired voluntarily, they probably did so because they knew their health was failing and they probably didn't have another season in them.
Paterno on the other hand may not have realized he was so close, but as mentioned by other posters the stress of the forced ousting probably advanced his ailments rapidly.
Former Lion wrote:
A family has lost their husband, father and grandfather. There is no place for your undignified comments.
And I'm sure they are all on LR reading these comments.
Frankly they should all be ashamed that he did next to nothing, when he knew children were being molested.
Do you think that after this was reported to him and he knew Sandusky was involved in a childrens charity, that he felt queazy about it? What did he do about that? Again nothing.
Tommy2Nuttz wrote:
Former Lion wrote:A family has lost their husband, father and grandfather. There is no place for your undignified comments.
And I'm sure they are all on LR reading these comments.
Frankly they should all be ashamed that he did next to nothing, when he knew children were being molested.
Do you think that after this was reported to him and he knew Sandusky was involved in a childrens charity, that he felt queazy about it? What did he do about that? Again nothing.
JoePa should have shot Sandusky dead if even suspecting his lechery. Anything less is simply doing nothing. All molesters should be shot or hanged (republicans as well, but that's a different story).
This site is truly a haven for the mentally ill and galactically stupid. Of course, the tip off is a Mensa-like handle of Tommy2Nuttz
Similar Comparison wrote:
Bear Bryant died less than 30 days after retiring from Alabama.
He bear-ly made it to retirement.
Former Lion wrote:
A family has lost their husband, father and grandfather. There is no place for your undignified comments.
Please child.
This just in: The Penn State shower room will be renamed the Joepa and Jerry Memorial Shower. Good times....good times.
Guess again Georgie!! It's someone else who knows you have no idea about respect or dignity
Former Lion wrote:
Guess again Georgie!! It's someone else who knows you have no idea about respect or dignity
Well, any such entity, were it to exist, would surely judge the cowardice of JoPa in taking the comfortable route for exactly what it is. Wrong in a fundametal way. Perhaps JoPa's soul is paying the price at the moment.
Shut up. Northern Europe was the last part of Asia to recede from the Ice Age. Genetically savages of Europe are pre-disposed to have sex from a very early age else without pro-creation aboriginals would not have survived to this day. It's normal for Northern Europeans to have sex with children and same sexual relations. You read about it daily in the news. So stop with the hate for Paterno, Sandusky, McCain, etc.
He was not man enough to stop a child molester!
In 50-100 years there will be a truly great novel in the Penn State story. It's a classic tragedy.
My prayers go out to Paterno's family, even though I believe he deserves to languish in one of the outer circles of Hell.
That retard farmer, mediocre Naval officer and worst President in our history was dead wrong. Unforgivable- he screwed the entire 1980 US Olympic team.
Bill Rodgers, Craig Virgin, Greg Louganis, and Carl Lewis were in some case gold medal contenders that year. If this happened in the age of social media, I shudder to think of the shit storm that would have rained on top of that loser from Plains, GA.