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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

From Bill Simmons:
Q: You have established the Levels of Losing. This whole Manti Te'o thing has got me thinking of the Levels of Indefensibly Defending Sports Figures. There has to be a certain level to where you can't defend your favorite stars without coming off as a pathetic, nonsensical fan. If there were five levels in all, Joe Paterno's supporters would be the highest (Level 5). Mel Gibson's fans are a 4 but dying to be a 5. Every Notre Dame fan defending Manti right now would probably be a 3 (with the chance to climb). This idea is in its infancy stages, how can you help?
?Joe, Syracuse


SG: Come on, you barely need any tweaking! You were right there! Fine, I'll help. You should have gone with six levels (you missed one).


Level 1: Reserved for harmless stuff ? like Boston fans defending Kevin Garnett every time he acts like a bully or an a-hole (just because he's on our team and we love him and that's what you do when it's your guy), or Cowboys fans blindly defending Tony Romo's litany of choke jobs just because they love Tony Romo, or Miami fans refusing to admit that Dwyane Wade is an occasionally dirty player, or Utah fans arguing that Karl Malone really DID have some clutch moments. All benevolent fan-defending goes here.


Level 2: A blown-out version of the first level ? the stakes are a little higher only because there's a little more of that hits-too-close-to-home sensitivity. Like how Ravens fans fly off the handle every time someone jokes about Ray Lewis's incident from 2000. Yes, you could throw Kobe and the Lakers fans in here. As well as Red Sox fans post-2004 right after any steroids joke about Manny or Papi.


Level 3: Any longtime O.J. Simpson fan now making the "If we're going to make excuses for Junior Seau, why can't we make the same excuses for everything that happened to O.J. after he retired? What if he has CTE, too?" defense. This gets its own level. By the way, I'm all-in on the CTE O.J. defense. He should start pushing it right now.


Level 4: Any Notre Dame fan pushing the whole "Look, Manti is the one who's a victim here!" scenario. If you play the catfishing/naive angle hard enough, the "victim" door is juuuuuuuuuuuuuust open enough that they don't sound completely insane. Just marginally insane.


Level 5: Anyone defending baseball cheaters (Bonds, Clemens, McGwire, etc.) with the always hilarious "We don't know for sure" defense or the equally hilarious "Come on, everyone was cheating, any competitive person would have done what they did" defense. All PED defenses go here. So does everyone defending Lance Armstrong's last two decades of lying/cheating/bullying/threatening/intimidating because "he did some real good, too."


Level 6: Anyone who wanted the Paterno statue to stay up; anyone who thinks that Paterno and/or Penn State's administration didn't have an inkling that something was at the very least a little off with Jerry Sandusky; anyone who rushed out a mostly flattering post-scandal biography about Paterno without waiting for the entire investigation to play out; and anyone who said the words, "Well, this may have complicated Joe's legacy, but it didn't change all the great things he did." Welcome to the highest level of Indefensibly Defending Sports Figures.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8856794/the-all-teo-mailbag#footnote4

I added the bold in the last paragraph. Someone with a handle post that on BWI.
 
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I'm not sure how many of these are actual Ped State fans and how many are just trollin' up some fun. I have a feeling it's mostly the former, which is scary...

Rest in Peace coach PaternoReply Thank you for everything coach, you are certainly missed
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409!*****Reply ***
http://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=162020638&mid=162020638&sid=890&style=2

Every body knows Joe was the greatest of all time.Reply
Paterno was smeared at the end and was not deserving of how it all went down.

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In my view he won 6 titles. Remember the polls? (m)Reply 1968 Unbeaten - no title
1969 Unbeaten - no title
1973 Unbeaten - no title
1994 Unbeaten - no title
Oh, and let's not forget the 409 wins. ***Reply nfm
We don't judge Joe only on his titles/wins. Therefore, he is the greatest.*Reply *
http://bwi.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=36&tid=162028824&mid=162028824&sid=890&style=2
 
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buckeyesin07;2295095; said:
God, I wish someone could throw that article in front of Franco, Lubrano and every other mouth-breathing idiot who blindly defends the Zombie.


They're all sick bastards.



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Re: Every body knows Joe was the greatest of all time.Reply Joe Paterno was a god among men. Joe singlehandedly built this university and put State College on the map. He made sure that his players were student athletes who got an education, and not just some doofuses and Forrest Gumps like Bear Bryant had at Alabama. They will never take Joe's 409 and the titles he should have won, had the jealous Michigan and Ohio States of the college football world not conspired to keep him from stealing their thunder...


:slappy: :rofl: :slappy:

nope, no culture issue there.

 
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In terms of teams he coached that were the best in the country and deserved to be ranked number one, I would add at least 4 others - '68, '69, '73 and '94. Many forget the 1973 squad was the first team in college football history to go 12-0; the 1982 team was the first to win the MNC while throwing for more yards than they ran for; the '94 team is considered by some to be the greatest offensive team in the history of the game; the '68 and '69 teams may have been the best defensive teams of all time.
 
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In terms of teams he coached that were the best in the country and deserved to be ranked number one, I would add at least 4 others - '68, '69, '73 and '94. Many forget the 1973 squad was the first team in college football history to go 12-0; the 1982 team was the first to win the MNC while throwing for more yards than they ran for; the '94 team is considered by some to be the greatest offensive team in the history of the game; the '68 and '69 teams may have been the best defensive teams of all time.

I can only imagine that whoever wrote this has to be so fucking dumb that he had to divert brain power away from the part that tells his lungs to breathe, and that he promptly suffocated as a result of straining to pinch off this steaming turd of an opinion. There's simply no other way for a thought like that one to exist.
 
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Paterno supporters light 409 candles on anniversary of his death

TATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Despite a subzero windchill, about 400 Joe Paterno supporters gathered in front of a mural in downtown here to honor the man who commanded Penn State's football sidelines for 46 years. Students, alumni and fans bundled in jackets, scarves and hats huddle together, taking solace that the night had allowed them to celebrate Paterno's life surrounded by fellow supporters.

On the one-year anniversary of the longtime Penn State head football coach's death, 409 luminaries lined Heister Street in front of Michael Pilato's Inspiration Mural. The number represents each of Paterno's wins before 111 of his victories were vacated as part of the sanctions handed down by the NCAA in response to a report that alleged top school administrators could have prevented Jerry Sandusky from sexually abusing young boys.

Paterno died in January 2011 of complications related to his lung cancer at age 85.

Pilato spoke briefly about how appreciative he was of the crowd, saying, "We are all here as one big family to honor a great man." Pilato said Paterno was looking down on Heister Street and would see the "409" depicted on the Inspiration Mural.

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The memorial news coverage was just plugged with this speech excerpt... might be a bit off but the jist is right.

"You did everything you could. You did it right. You won. We love you."

Comment not really necessary, right?
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;2295745; said:
Paterno supporters light 409 candles on anniversary of his death



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Deety;2295758; said:
The memorial news coverage was just plugged with this speech excerpt... might be a bit off but the jist is right.

"You did everything you could. You did it right. You won. We love you."

Comment not really necessary, right?

Yep, it's definitely not all about football...
 
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