re: Would Paterno be alive today had the scandal not broken?

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I've been saying for years that the only reason he still coached was because he knew he would die if he ever stopped. Like the Bear. Obviously, both deaths are coincidental to their retirements.





But are they?

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Retirement from a job, whether forced or by choice, can be very traumatic for a lot of people.

People who don't know what to do with themselves now that they aren't working tend to deteriorate much more rapidly than people who have things they can do now that they have the time.


I work for a governmental agency and there are a decent amount of people who refuse to go into retirement in part because they wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they weren't coming into work 4-5 days a week.

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I've been saying for years that the only reason he still coached was because he knew he would die if he ever stopped. Like the Bear. Obviously, both deaths are coincidental to their retirements.

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He said it too

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“What else would I do?” he said when quizzed about retirement. “I don’t want to die. Football keeps me alive.”

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