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You're seriously going to criticize them for this? We both know you'd be criticizing them for not doing it, too.

 

Guess what? That wasn't their decision to make. They had a responsibility to notify authorities and let THEM decide if a crime had been committed.

 

I didn't say they made the right decision. I think they made the wrong decision. I just don't think they're evil and I don't think it was done to protect the football team.

 

I'm fine with ribbons, as long as the O'Brien shuts up about punching back.

 

I don't care to argue because I don't see any argument there. I am willing to let posters decide if the Penn State case is like either the UCF or Syracuse case, and if they think it is, they can think less of me for not arguing it. But I am not into the Fox News method of insisting that a point remains under debate until both sides concede it is not debatable.

We're just across a philosophical bridge on whether child rape is like giving players $100, and whether the Penn State situation with its many accusers and evidence of a cover-up is like the Syracuse case in which one of the two accusers has admitted to making the story up and the other one has serious credibility problems of his own.

I'm pretty comfortable sitting on the side of the bridge I'm on.

 

Wrong. You don't honor those you have wronged by wearing something. You honor those you have wronged by compensating them for their harm to the best of your ability and refer to them respectfully. That's it. This is an idle gesture and at worst cover for them changing their uniforms (and hence making more $$ for new uniform replicas sales.)

 

That's tortured logic.

If you've got nothing to hide, let them scrutinize them.

Don't obstruct then claim "oh I did not want to taint [whatever]" with scrutiny.

Common sense and human nature tells non-fanbois and jurors that you don't coverup unless you have something to hide.

Be smart, don't insult someone's intelligence.

 

This is just dumb.

Is there some reason you think compensation and symbolic acknowledgement of the victims are mutually exclusive? Why can't they do both? They ARE compensating the victims, regardless, but there's no reason they can't, or shouldn't, also do this.

And the current Penn St. football players who'd be wearing the thing didn't wrong anybody, so let's stop suggesting otherwise.

And I love the suggestion that it'd be wrong for them to change their uniforms, when we've got other posters like Starman here insisting they must change the uniforms.

I swear there's nothing Penn St. can do that won't be construed as wrong or "not getting it" by some folks around here. If they do wear ribbons, that's bad. If they don't, that's bad too. If they change their uniforms, that's bad. If they don't, that's bad too. It seems like some folks spend their day combing the internet and message boards looking for the next "don't get it" item to waive around.

 

Penn State wouldn't pay the victims squat on its own.

 

The "Paterno uniforms" were part and parcel of the Cult of JoePa.

They need to be gone.

PSU is a NIKE school. Turn their finger-painting uniform-design department loose on them, to try out all the stuff rejected by Oregon for being too outlandish.

 

No, because then they'd be "making more $$ for new uniform replicas sales", which would be bad. But, then again, keeping them would be bad too. Either way, it proves they just don't get it.

 

Change the uniforms for the team. Don't sell them. (yeah, I know, not realistic).

They sure as heck shouldn't be profiting off of these victims, like these T-shirt makers.