Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Paterno's Statute. What to do with it?


There should be a special place in the College Football Hall of Fame.

A place that would feature Joe Paterno in lead position.

Jo-Pa is the guy who recently held the title "Winningest Coach in College Football"

But that was before a review board held their collective noses and scratched away his last 189 wins because he had covered up pedophilia by one of his assistant coaches for 13 years.  Paterno didn't want word to get out.  Paterno didn't want to let anything happen that might tarnish his reputation.  So.  Paterno knew about the child sodomization that was being conducted by one of his assistant coaches, and when that assistant coach quit, Paterno helped him continue access to the Penn State locker room area and helped him create an organization to "help" young boys in athletic "skills".

Now Penn State has taken Paterno's statute down from a pedestal outside Beaver Stadium and removed it to a "secure location".   They have it "covered up", which seems fitting somehow, but they really don't know what to do with it.

My suggestion is to send it to the College Football Hall of Fame, mount it on another "pedestal", more appropriate to its new significance, and let Joe Paterno stand there forever as one of the very worst people ever to walk the face of the earth.  To Joe Paterno, fame was very important.  He has earned his fame through the hidden tears of young boys.  Tears that he covered up.  Let his statute bask in the fame it deserves.

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