Here's my deal with THON....which has been shoved in my face as a motorist in the state of PA for nearly a decade...maybe more. It's amazing that people can raise that much money for charity, especially for one that fights cancer in children. However, and I know adding a "however" to something like this seems petty or cruel or whatever, they use it as a weapon. Say something bad about Penn State? THON THON THON THON THON. Suggest Penn State might not have children's best interests at heart? THON THON THON THON. They're using cancer in children as a shield for practically anything negative their athletes do. It's not even related to athletics at all....but of course this is Penn State we're talking about, so it's always about the football team or women's volleyball (because they would really care about women's volleyball if they weren't the only school that was any good at it).
In the end, the results completely outweigh the negatives by a factor of about a billion. But go in the mind of the Penn State student who tweeted the amounts at Olbermann. Why do you think he was doing it? What was his tweet really saying to Keith? I'd bet all the amount of THON money that it was more "Look at how righteous Penn State football is" and less "Look at what great things can be accomplished".
