Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE 2* Sandusky Arrested Again

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Where's the sympathy for the unsung victim in all this...the poor microwave truck that gave it's life doing what it loved?

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

What a surprise, it's leaning to the left.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

He was a control freak, but didn't truly understand what was going on with Sandusky all those years.

I'm not sure we should be sullying vampires with the levels of weirdness this is reaching.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

I've changed my mind.

I've joined the chorus of people who think today's game, and the rest of the Penn State's season, should be cancelled.

For most of this week, I thought that would be unfairly punishing the players who had nothing to do with this scandal. But seeing them on the field now, preparing for the game as if nothing happened, sickens me. No moments of silence or fundraising for the victims will change the fact that the team played its game as if nothing happened.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

ESPN just showed a shot of Penn State players in a huddle on return from a commercial break.

Corso could be heard saying "Where's the little kid at?"

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Yeah, the reality is very unseemly. Rationally I understand why they're playing, but honestly, when you mix in the bombast from the gameday crew, etc., this is close to sickening ...

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Oh for crissakes, it's a football game. A diversion for five or six hours for these players, who have been through a shitstorm this week. (Admittedly nothing like Sandusky's victims, but I don't think everything needs to meet a moral equivalency test, does it?)

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

You don't see how people could see what TV is talking about and be disgusted?

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Someone mentioned it earlier, but if a History professor had been arrested for the same crimes Sandusky was arrested for, they wouldn't shut down the History Department, right?

It's not a perfect analogy, and I'm uncomfortable with the scene as well, I'm just not sure canceling the game, the season, or the program is the right thing to do.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

Admittedly I'm not giving Gameday my full attention here, I'm trying to juggle a few other things. But what I've seen so far hasn't been outwardly celebratory. Football players huddle together before a game. After everything that's happened, that's what gets you pissed?

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

And where you see sickening, I see healing. I think my outlook's a bit healthier.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE* Paterno Fired

I'm really sick of hearing about the poor football player "kids."
The irony is, the current Penn State players, while blame-less, of course, in this incident, are perfect examples of the disease. If you read some of their tweets this week, they're focused on ignoring everything outside them and just focusing on beating Nebraska and wondering why the media only focuses on them when there's a scandal or feeling bad for Paterno or asking God to get them through this ... after Paterno was fired, but not before that ...

They have not been through a shitstorm, not any level that deserves sympathy compared to the real victims today.

Shit ... a dumb fan couldn't even get through the moment of silence just now without shouting "We love you, P-State!" Not about you. Not about your precious football team. Or university. The freaking victims.

The real kids.