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There is a sizable portion of people (and a supermajority on this board) that will be satisfied with nothing less than the abolition of the athletic department, the firing of every school employee down to the assistant groundskeeper, public hanging for all remaining Paternos, having the borough dissolved, and all alumni consigned to burning their diplomas and wearing sackcloth all the way to the grave.

I'm not saying it is even wrong to feel that way. But I wish people would just say it instead of waiting in the weeds for anybody in blue to do anything, then becoming professionally outraged.

 

Good post. Said it better than I have been trying to. I despise Sandusky and Paterno for what happened, and there is a sizable portion of fans still backing JoePa, but the majority of fans/students just want to enjoy the college experience and cheer on their football team.

 

WE ARE.....

 

Professionally outraged? Does that differ from amatuer outrage? Like, if I accept a plane ticket and nice watch from a guy in a sweater vest, do I lose my amatuer status? If there is an professional outrage draft, I'd really like the opportunity to have someone ask during the Outrage Combine (sponsored by Under Armour and Fox News) if my mother is a prostitute, because then I could really show what I'm capable of.

 

Or, maybe everybody at Penn State should have the sense to keep their heads down and at least act as if they are embarrassed by what happened for a little while instead of saying it is time to punch back and whining about how hard it has been on the poor students.

As somebody suggested, the broadcaster shouldn't have brought it up at all. Say the crowd was great and move on without talking about how hard they have it.

 

Good points. But I can also understand the students/fans wanting restore the school's pride and try to get back to normal. They had a moment of silence and honored the victims before the game. I'm not sure what else they are expected to do. A moment of silence that lasts the entire game. Stand with their backs to the field the whole time?

 

I love the way you make it sound like "oh, I just happened to stumble across this on the radio today..." Oh please. You're the same guy who's repeatedly revealed that he wastes his time scouring Penn St. fanboi message boards, and you've been as obsessed with looking for the next "see, they don't get it" item to post about as anybody on this board.

I've no doubt some were monitoring the PSU broadcasts today for some low hanging fruit to come here and sanctimoniously bitch about--hey maybe even something that'll allow you to type punch back again (because lord knows that never stops being clever)--and if I was forced to wager on who'd be the first to post about it, you'd likely be my choice.

You know, if you guys really were so offended by the sight of Penn State football, the logical reaction would be simply to not watch the game or listen to the broadcast. I know I didn't. But the truth is you couldn't wait to tune in and would be disappointed if you hadn't found something to take offense at.

Wow, a Penn St. play by play guy made a comment about the fans having a rough summer--color me shocked!--that's quite a find you came up with.

 

I have no problem with the fans cheering and enjoying the game. I have an issue with the radio guy's comment.

 

Nice deflection attempt. I didn't stumble upon shit. I had to take my kid to volleyball practice at that time, and on the first weekend of the college football season, I sought out the only competitive game going on at the time to listen to on the radio. What a devious fucking plot, huh, Columbo?

I listened to the last 5 minutes of the game and that quote from the PSU radio guy about the poor students and campus and what a rough summer they had to endure stuck out. If you don't want low-hanging fruit to get swings taken at it, then the guy shouldn't say stupid shit like that in the first place.

But I guess that's too easy of a solution for you and your bunch of fucktards at Victims, Inc., in Happy Valley to be able to fathom. Really not a surprise.

 

Play-by-play guys say stupid shit all the time. And I don't think this was all that stupid. He could have cut it short, but it's not like he was saying the PSU fans were the only victims here, as you implied in your original post. Do you know if he mentioned the TRUE victims at any point during the broadcast? Didn't think so. For all you know, he could have been giving out the number soliciting donations to help them before every brea. But nope, he was just sooo concerned about those poor PSU fans.

 

Again, I don't have a fucking thing to do with Penn State, "Happy Valley" or the state of Pennsylvania. My post has nothing to do with that.

I've just grown weary of the same folks constantly with the same lazy intellectually-limited piling on posts. The mentality almost starts to remind me of the closet cowards from childhood who'd feel good about themselves by lining up behind the bully picking on the weird socially-maladjusted kid. Once it becomes apparent which kid is a cool or acceptable target, others start looking for any possible reason/flaw to keep piling on. Now that it's apparent that Penn State is college sports favored target, some start looking for ANYTHING anybody remotely associated with the place does that they might be able to bitch or acted offended about.

The radio P x P guy's comment (presuming what you posted is accurate) is utterly innocuous, the same sort of shit that would've been said by virtually any school's homer P x P guy in the same situation, so who really gives a shit?

 

Apparently you do, or else you wouldn't have launched such a spirited defense of him/attack on me for pointing it out. Sorry, but ANY homer PxP radio guy saying something like that in that situation deserves scorn. Even at your dear old Penn State - oh sorry, forgot you don't have a fucking thing to do with Penn State. Right.

Since I'm not the only person in this thread who heard it and found it odd, I guess you can presume it is accurate. But I guess that's more piling on by the school bullies. Now we're equating Penn State football with the picked-on, socially-maladjusted kid on the playground.

Yeah, no misplaced victim mentality going on there.