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Decanonized Mythologized Disgraced Ped State Monster Coach Joe Paterno (Zombie Icon)

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Bucklion;2178277; said:
Weinreb, an alum who grew up in SC, weighs in...he sounds surprisingly like he posts here:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8160271/joe-paterno-legacy-penn-state-aftermath-freeh-report
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Spectacular article.

Bucklion;2178281; said:
Rick Reilly, who wrote about the Sportsman of the Year 1986 article, leaves no doubt about how he feels:

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8162972/joe-paterno-true-legacy
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What a fool I was.

In 1986, I spent a week in State College, Pa., researching a 10-page Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year piece on Joe Paterno.

It was supposed to be a secret, but one night the phone in my hotel room rang. It was a Penn State professor, calling out of the blue.

"Are you here to take part in hagiography?" he said.

"What's hagiography?" I asked.

"The study of saints," he said. "You're going to be just like the rest, aren't you? You're going to make Paterno out to be a saint. You don't know him. He'll do anything to win. What you media are doing is dangerous."

Jealous egghead, I figured.

What an idiot I was.
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muffler dragon;2178296; said:
Spectacular article.





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"That professor was right, all those years ago. I was engaging in hagiography. So was that school. So was that town. It was dangerous. Turns out it builds monsters."

Monsters?

Lions have long been symbols of courage, bravery and royal presence. Even their group name, a pride, evokes a picture of heroic virtue.

Nittany Lions? Sorry, right now it's the Nittany Monsters, at least until some remaining brave souls from Happy Valley take the actions necessary to again claim the title of Lion.
 
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Oh8ch;2178317; said:
But what I am really interested in are our chances of landing Johnson and Breneman if their class falls apart.
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Easy, Oh8ch...

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OK, think about this quote from the Rick Reilly piece posted here:
That's all clear now after Penn State's own investigator, former FBI director Louis Freeh, came out Thursday and hung the whole disgusting canvas on a wall for us. Showed us the emails, read us the interviews, shined a black light on all of the lies they left behind. It cost $6.5 million and took eight months and the truth it uncovered was 100 times uglier than the bills.
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At least at some point the university had the moral fortitude to bring in an investigator- and not just some investigator, but a man with impressive credentials- and turned him loose.

I'm still waiting for the South Bend reports on the suicide of an alleged
rape victim and what really happened in the scissor lift event.

Penn State had the courage to let the truth come out.
 
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