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

[OSU_Buckguy]

Joe Paterno's Last Season

At Paterno?s house the day after he is fired via late-night telephone call from the Penn State board of trustees:

On Thursday, Paterno met with his coaches at his house. He sobbed uncontrollably. This was his bad day. Later, one of his former captains, Brandon Short, stopped by the house. When Brandon asked, ?How are you doing, Coach?? Paterno answered, ?I?m okay,? but the last syllable was shaky, muffled by crying, and then he broke down and said, ?I don?t know what I?m going to do with myself.? Nobody knew how to handle such emotion. Joe had always seemed invulnerable. On Thursday, though, he cried continually.

?My name,? he told Jay, ?I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it?s gone.?

 

[exhawg]

Joe Paterno's Last Season

That's funny I was just wishing I could make a batch of chili for PedState fans. Might have a little bite to it now.

 

[Buckrock]

Just a little towel snapping.

 

[NFBuck]

"My name, he told Jay, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone."

Yep, it's all about your stupid name. That's why they're now known as "ped aggy" and the football program is in ruins. All because a "name" meant more than basic human decency. [censored]ing fools.

 

[AJHawkfan]

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/15/gq-publishes-excerpts-from-joe-posnanskis-bio-on-joe-paterno/

Paterno’s son, Scott, reads the grand jury case against Sandusky for the first time:

Scott Paterno was the first in the family to understand that the Pennsylvania grand jury presentment that indicted Jerry Sandusky could end his father’s career. This wasn’t surprising; Scott tended to be the most realistic—or cynical, depending on who you asked—in the family. He had run for Congress and lost and along the way tasted the allure and nastiness of public life. He had worked as a lawyer and as a lobbyist. He would sometimes tell people, “Hey, don’t kid yourself, I’m the asshole of the family.” When Scott read the presentment, he called his father and said, “Dad, you have to face the possibility that you will never coach another game.”

As the Sandusky scandal explodes, the Paterno family hires a high-powered PR specialist, Dan McGinn, to help navigate the storm:

This is when McGinn learned just how far Paterno’s influence and reputation had fallen. He asked [family adviser Guido] D’Elia for the name of one person on the Penn State board of trustees, just one, whom they could reach out to, to negotiate a gracious ending. D’Elia shook his head.

“One person on the board, that’s all we need,” McGinn said.

D’Elia shook his head again. “It began in 2004,” he whispered, referring to an old clash Paterno had with [university president Graham] Spanier. “The board started to turn. We don’t have anybody on the board now.”

That’s when McGinn realized that this was going to be the worst day of Joe Paterno’s professional life.

At Paterno’s house the day after he is fired via late-night telephone call from the Penn State board of trustees:

On Thursday, Paterno met with his coaches at his house. He sobbed uncontrollably. This was his bad day. Later, one of his former captains, Brandon Short, stopped by the house. When Brandon asked, “How are you doing, Coach?” Paterno answered, “I’m okay,” but the last syllable was shaky, muffled by crying, and then he broke down and said, “I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself.” Nobody knew how to handle such emotion. Joe had always seemed invulnerable. On Thursday, though, he cried continually.

“My name,” he told Jay, “I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it’s gone.”

If JoePa truly did everything he felt was necessary, and didn't help cover anything up, why was Scott so sure that the initial Grand Jury presentment was likely going to end Joe's career? Seems like he would've been more pissed of if he was being victimized in such a manner. These quotes tell me he was remorseful, sad. Like he'd been exposed and felt guilty about something.......

 

[alexhortdog95]

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/15/gq-publishes-excerpts-from-joe-posnanskis-bio-on-joe-paterno/



If JoePa truly did everything he felt was necessary, and didn't help cover anything up, why was Scott so sure that the initial Grand Jury presentment was likely going to end Joe's career? Seems like he would've been more pissed of if he was being victimized in such a manner. These quotes tell me he was remorseful, sad. Like he'd been exposed and felt guilty about something.......

He was remorseful that they got caught, my friend. If he was truly that remorseful, he'd have told his family to back the hell off and stay out of the way.

 

[Mike80]

Yep, it's all about your stupid name. That's why they're now known as "ped aggy" and the football program is in ruins. All because a "name" meant more than basic human decency. [censored]ing fools.

Exactly.

Fuck the name, if you REALLY cared about the university and name the first hint of impropriety from Sandusky you run him to the cops and never let him back on campus ever again.

 

[Oh8ch]

If JoePa truly did everything he felt was necessary, and didn't help cover anything up, why was Scott so sure that the initial Grand Jury presentment was likely going to end Joe's career? Seems like he would've been more [censored]ed of if he was being victimized in such a manner. These quotes tell me he was remorseful, sad. Like he'd been exposed and felt guilty about something.......

That is how I read it. This was before Freeh started forging emails and Emmert had hatched his grand conspiracy. This was the first look at the raw interpretation of the Grand Jury. An interpretation that could be changed with different FACTS if such FACTS existed. It reads to me as the reaction of a man who knows the FACTS are not his best friend but his worst enemy.

 

[AJHawkfan]

That is how I read it. This was before Freeh started forging emails and Emmert had hatched his grand conspiracy. This was the first look at the raw interpretation of the Grand Jury. An interpretation that could be changed with different FACTS if such FACTS existed. It reads to me as the reaction of a man who knows the FACTS are not his best friend but his worst enemy.

Exactly. He was devastated because he knew his whole world was gonna come crashing down around him and he was going to be exposed as a fraud.

As inconsolable as this makes him sound, it really wouldn't surprise me if he didn't just eat a handful of pills in the end.....

 

[buxfan4life]

Even that quote they had on that stupid wall was all about how he wanted to be remembered, not that he wanted his good deeds to go forward without him. Joe was an egomaniac that Penn State fed into up until the bitter end. It was his image and his win total that kept them from moving forward with any action against the tickle monster. Joe was afraid of how badly it would reflect on him, so they sat on information. For Joe, it was all about Joe and his own grand excrement....um, i mean experiment.

The fact that those joepologists can not see this through Joe's own words and actions in the last few weeks of his life shows how blindly they want to follow dear leader.

 

[Coqui]

Yep, it's all about your stupid name. That's why they're now known as "ped aggy" and the football program is in ruins. All because a "name" meant more than basic human decency. [censored]ing fools.

His name was Robert Paulsen

 

[Coqui]

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...erpts-from-joe-posnanskis-bio-on-joe-paterno/



If JoePa truly did everything he felt was necessary, and didn't help cover anything up, why was Scott so sure that the initial Grand Jury presentment was likely going to end Joe's career? Seems like he would've been more [censored]ed of if he was being victimized in such a manner. These quotes tell me he was remorseful, sad. Like he'd been exposed and felt guilty about something.......

I thought you were the one that added guido to the name.....but that's actually legit?

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

there was some thread a while back on BWI where a buckeye fan referred to Guido as Paterno's helper or something. they spent about a half of a page calling the guy a racist and ignoring the very good point he was making until somebody pointed out that was his actual name.

 

[Bill Lucas]

He sobbed uncontrollably

Tough shit.

 

[colobuck79]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...829708820.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

Wall Street Journal review of Paterno book.

The most interesting thing about "Paterno" may be that, even leaving the scandal aside, the coach comes across as a self-mythologizing monster, consumed by his legacy of winning on the football field. I'm not sure that this is what Mr. Posnanski was going for, given the amount of space he spends on the inspiring life lessons that various players learned from the coach.

"Self mythologizing monster" is perfect.