Good fucking Lord. You know the saddest part of this whole thing to me is that Franco Harris, dunce that he has become, is like a complete exception to every rule. Here's what I mean. The football players were around Joe a lot, so one could see that it would be hard for them to acknowledge/admit/come to grips with all the things that are coming out. Yet most of the players have been victim-first and very measured in their responses. Yes, Millen stopped short of villifying Joe, but at least he left open the POSSIBILITY of him having known and not acted and/or not done enough. On the flip side, I would bet that 95%...or more...of the people on BWI and the people posting these billboards and the ones commenting on that Onward State story and whatever have interacted with Joe for a grand total of 60 seconds or less in their lifetimes. Yes they are the ones who will cling to the deck of the Titanic and claim it is the world's most unsinkable ship, all the way up until they drown. Why? It can't be Joe himself, they don't even know him and they have likely either never met him or have only done so in passing. It's got to be the fact that they can't admit they were duped, or that they sunk all of their hopes and dreams into a brand, into an IDEAL (not even the man) that turns out to be patently false. THEY couldn't be wrong, and no amount of FACTS or EVIDENTS or EGGZAMPLES will be able to change their mind one iota. All for a person they don't even know and have no way of knowing deserves or doesn't deserve their unwavering faith. How sad.
