Quote:Football is a crazy thing.


It causes people to make excuses for a man that covered up for a guy who COMMITTED FORCED SODOMY ON CHILDREN.


But the guy won a bunch of football games, so he is in need of defending.


Newsflash: Winning football games doesn't mean you're a good person.

There are plenty of ways to honor the good deeds that Joe Paterno did.  Continuing those deeds would be one of them.  Instead they choose to idolize the man -- which is part of the problem in the first place.  They put football before people.  People take college football too seriously.  So seriously that -- people often do cover up crimes for star athletes.  I'm sure some will say I'm being self righteous.  Apparently because I believe that sports players (coaches too!) should be held to the same standards as every other human being.  IMO -- which I'm 100% entitled to, and I'm also entitled to share, because it's not against the rules of the forum as far as I'm aware -- by building this statue they continue the problems that lead to Sandusky not being reported in the first place.  Whether by Joe Paterno, the Vice President of the college, or whomever.  

 

I wonder how many of these people defending Joe Paterno now would be defending him if he were a terrible football coach who never won a game.

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