JoePa Dies at 85

[Sportsbuck]

Michael Sisak @cvmikesisak 18m Reply Retweet Favorite · Open
BREAKING: Penn State coach Joe Paterno near death, family summoning close friends to hospital for final goodbyes.

It's been making the rounds on twitter...

 

[Nukleopatra]

Post again when he finally dies.

 

[Sportsbuck]

Apparently was taken off the respirator this morning.

 

[Rudi]

this isnt surprising but it is sad. I said when he had to step down from coaching that I gave him a year before he would die, just because the dude LIVED for football during his whole life, once you take that away bad things happen

 

[NAHSTE]

Yep. Sad, but it was a matter of time once he stopped having something to live for.

 

[Rudi]

Saw this on twitter... "Jerry Sandusky should have a murder charge added to his charges, he killed Joe Pa" :yao:

 

[Woy]

 

[EmpireWF]

Football doesn't have anything to do with it. Cancer is a bastard.

 

[mcstl25]

What a horrible way to go out.

 

[FedEx227]

Not sad at all.

People stopped talking about the story since it wasn't really the big news story anymore but he's not innocent in any of it, he's just not.

Evidence points in a lot of ways that he knew about Sandusky's transgressions all the way back to 1998-1999 but continued to support his friend.

http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/paterno-pitched-sandusky-as-head-coach-in-1999-29954: This article goes into detail about Paterno and Sandusky pitching the idea of creating a football team in Altoona with the recently "fired/retired" Sandusky as the head coach. It's like if you had a priest sodomizing a child and to cover it up the Catholic Church would move said priest to a different parish, but that's just an analogy...

 

[Cornelius]

I might give a shit if he hadn't done nothing while his buddy molested children.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

He's gonna bear Bear Bryant's record.

 

[Hasselbeck]

Kind of saw it coming when he was fired.

 

[Bmore]

Damn that sucks.

 

[BrntO4Life]

It's like if you had a priest sodomizing a child and to cover it up the Catholic Church would move said priest to a different parish, but that's just an analogy...

 

[f16harm]

I shook my head a while ago when the first reports came out that he was being treated for lung cancer and his son said it was "treatable" and "his doctors are optimistic he will make a full recovery." Either lying, denial, or both. Lung cancer = #1 cancer killer. Throw in he's 84 and in a super stressed situation and it never looked good.

 

[Boucher]

Who?

 

[Bmore]

Who?

:joker:

 

[SethMode]

Cancer sucks. The only thing that sucks worse is Alzheimer's (in my experience with both in my family). With that said, I don't really feel "bad" about this. I don't really care at this point about the whole Sandusky madness. I guess to me it's another old person dying, and in this case the dude happened to coach Penn State for a while. As a Penn State grad I will be forever grateful for what he gave to the university, but at this point, as shitty of an expression as it is, it is what it is. It is impossible for me to expect people to be sad that an 80+ year old millionaire died, particularly under these circumstances.

 

[Buzzman]

I feel like I lost a brother today. Shit runs deep through me. I sleep a sad man tonight.