re: One has to have empathy for the Penn State Football Community for their past 15 Years

Also it's crazy how most people don't know about Todd Hodne. Basically Paterno's version of Aaron Hernandez but even worse.

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But what about!" This is a thread about Pedo State on a sports message board.

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Thanks for clarifying you only care about pedophilia when it comes to a football team you don’t like. Or that you’re such a simpleton you can’t discuss multiple topics.

You are calling it “Pedo State” but only 1 guy molested kids, he was caught tired convicted and imprisoned. 3 officials at Penn State were also tried and convicted of covering up/not reporting the abuse, Paterno may also have faced charges but he died 3-4 months after the scandal broke. In other words Justice ultimately prevailed

This was all 14 years ago now. I make the comparison to the Catholic Church because both involved sexual abuse of children people continue to say the Penn St football should have been destroyed, because child sexual abuse is so bad. Destroying Penn St football does not help Sandusky’s victims or prevent future abuse it only serves self righteous blood lust.

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You’re really comparing a football program to the Catholic Church?. Holy “what aboutisms” Jessica.

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Is the inference here that the catholic church somehow deserves a pass?

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Meh when you sacrifice the safety of kids to not interrupt your football program, you deserve way more than what they got.

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The people that covered it up went to jail except for Paterno who died. What does destroying the football program accomplish? I think part of the reason people cover stuff like that up is no matter what people want to punish the program. Punish the guilty i was fine with stripping Paterno of wins.

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The people involved in covering it up or turning a blind eye to it being gone is kind of irrelevant

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How is punishing and or removing those responsible “irrelevant”?

No, one does not.

Some where in rural Pennsylvania is a salt of the earth good catholic guy who loves nothing more than Penn state football and the boyscouts.

I have empathy for that guy.

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Why would you punish people that had nothing to do with anything with it? 50 years that’s people they weren’t even born.

Given your stance on Penn St shouldn’t the Catholic Church be banished from existence?

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Cardinal Law from the Boston resigned in disgrace after proof he had covered up the sexual abuse of hundreds of kids, if not thousands. He moved to Rome and was appointed archbishop of one of the major Catholic churches in Rome, by the Pope himself (John Paul). This was in 2004, seven years before the PSU scandal. I'm not making it, cause the CC has done a lot of good over the years, but there's a pretty good argument it absolutely should be banned, as well as several other Abrahamic religions/religious sects, i.e. see the thread in the OT about the Oklahoma church founder. Might not want to bring up the CC in a debate about child molestation.

JoePa knew. Everyone knew. There's a reason Sandusky won awards as a coordinator but never got a head coaching job.