re: Penn State unveils the Paterno Family Football Experience Room

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And the Paterno family is also a piece of work. When all of this was going down, one of Paterno's sons kept referring to Dad as "Joe". That was just weird.

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Maybe they are, but this correlation is dumb. Jay coached under Joe. I don’t think calling him “dad” on the football field during practice was gonna fly.

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Paterno started at Penn St. in 1966, but didn’t get a national championship until 1982 and 1986. Had some great years in between that time, but I wonder if he would’ve survived some of those subpar years without a national championship in today’s cfb climate.

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Penn St. in his early years was an independent and did not really play that tough a schedule relatively speaking.

For example, their 1973 team that we played in the Orange Bowl that year was undefeated and was if I'm not mistaken ranked No. 7 due to the weakness of that schedule. Wasn't our best team but we took them right to the wire - played them evenly some would say outplayed them, we outgained them and held them to under 200 total yards and held Heisman Winner Cappeletti to 50 yards on 26 carries. The difference was a flukish 72 yard TD pass on a one handed catch by a Penn St. receiver.

So he chalked a lot of wins early on against weak schedules - he did not really start competing for titles until they started strengthening their schedule in the late 70's.

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Seems to be a resurgence in paterno truthers claiming Sandusky was innocent.

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I think you're getting trolled, amigo

I remember when that bag of shite hypocrite was asked if he would retire in the 90s and he replied, “I’m not going to leave college football to the Jackie Sherrills and Barry Switzers of the world.” Well, Joe, I don’t recall Barry or Jackie covering for a child rapist on their staffs for decades.

And, let’s not forget, the two paragons of virtue, Dr. Tom and JoePa, started to bring in thugs when the pressure to win NCs got to them.

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I thought for sure that this would be some satirical AI video. I cannot believe they actually added something to the stadium with his name on it.

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Penn State fans are absolutely insane and in complete denial. It's fricking wild.

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Thanks brother. I love hearing about this type of stuff I didn’t know about before.

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I have a lot of useless sports trivia from the 70's and 80's for LSU sports trapped in my brain.

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They believe that he did absolutely nothing wrong

"he reported it to the appropriate authorities, what did you want him to do"

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A vice president of the university was not the appropriate authorities. So Joe Paterno did not report it to the appropriate authorities after all. The police were the appropriate authorities. He should have reported it to them.

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The Big10 is a filthy degenerate conference with pedo state being the worst.

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Penn St.
Ohio St.
Michigan St.
Michigan


Have had sex scandals the last 10 years.
The cleanest team is probably Maryland maybe that's why they suck.

Of course the big10 fans will tell you an institution willing to cover up a child sex scandal like those 4 would never ever pay a player under the table. They were all nice boys and waited for NIL.