10 REASONS TO HATE PENN STATE
Saturday afternoon Penn State comes into Ohio Stadium. They bring James Franklin, a 2016 loss and a wall in front of the season's future.There's a lot to hate, so let's get started.
10. COURTNEY BROWN
Penn State is responsible for the entirety of the Browns 21st century bender.
Out of all the defensive players from Penn State that have gone on to formidable NFL careers — LaVar Arrington, Cameron Wake, Tamba Hali etc. — the one that the Browns get stuck with is a consensus All-American and one of the biggest draft busts in NFL history.
Just the second season after the team had returned following taxpayers being extorted by their owner for a new stadium (whoops, wrong link. click here), Brown was supposed to be a dominant stalwart off the edge. Instead, Brown flaming out due to injury issues that diminished his production cast the cyclical path of the Browns' irrelevancy into further action.
But hey, "COOOOOME TO PENN STATE!"
9. THE JERSEYS
In
Miracle — the best hockey movie of all time — coach Herb Brooks says, "The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back." That's true. But contrary to what Brooks says, his Olympic hockey players still have their names on the back of their jerseys. Olympic hockey players. They won the gold medal in 1980. They beat communists that were very good at slappy puck.
But, imagine thinking you're more prestigious and important to be simpler than the United States Olympic hockey team.
Imagine having won only two national championships and thinking that the institutional tradition is more important than giving your student-athletes any form of individualism.
I mean, one of the highlights of Bill O'Brien's tenure in State College was adding last names to the back of the jerseys. In the wake of scandal that involved zero of those athletes, that meant something.
James Franklin comes in and immediately returns to the tradition of no last names. Yeah, sweet. For the record, navy blue, black and white are clashing colors together.
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