Gerry Sandusky has been hearing from a lot of people in the last few days, mostly through Twitter and email. Some, he said in a phone conversation a few minutes ago, want to know if he's him, if he's that Jerry Sandusky. Others have expressed "super support and understanding" for the fact that his name - at least as it's pronounced - is the same as that other guy's. Still others - an estimate he put at two percent of those he's heard from since the scandal broke involving Jerry Sandusky - have come at him with lines like, "You're a pervert!" and "Stay away from my children!"
"People don't realize I'm not that guy," said Sandusky, who also serves as the sports director for WBAL-TV in Baltimore.
Since the weekend, Sandusky has greeted the entire matter with humor. Saturday night, he tweeted what he jokingly said "has to be setting a record for re-tweets." It said, "A great, big thank you to my late mom for choosing to spell my first name with a 'G'."
Sunday night, before the Ravens' game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, Sandusky had a conversation with Dick Ebersol, the former chairman of NBC Sports. "After I introduced myself," Sandusky said, "he did a visible flinch. I think he thought I was kidding.
"I feel like I've stumbled across this parallel universe of people," he went on, "who have the same name as somebody's who's been accused of a heinous crime. Somewhere out there, I'm sure there's a Bernie Madoff who's a baker and who happens to be a great guy."
