At some point in the coming weeks, Joe Paterno is gonna step down as the head coach at Penn State, and the reason why is because there’s no possible way to reconcile the statement he issued yesterday with the details from the grand jury report that say, specifically, that Peterno was told that Jerry Sandusky did things of a “sexual nature” to a child. I would say the use of terms like “child” and “sexual nature” are specific enough. Paterno is going to be allowed the chance to resign with some semblance of dignity, probably before the team’s bowl game. And the oblivious sack of shit currently serving as PSU president will get the boot as well. This whole PSU thing is less an indictment of college football than it is an indictment of all entrenched adult institutions. From big-time college football to the Catholic church to Wall Street to government agencies, you’ll find that people almost always choose to cover their ass and protect their jobs (and friends) rather than do the right thing.
Drew Magary beginning a piece at Deadspin.
I’m so tired of good ol’ boys in positions of authority abusing their positions, turning a blind eye/deaf ear, keeping secrets, covering asses, and making excuses. I’m so sick of it that sometimes I don’t think I can go on.
When children are being abused, there are ALWAYS signs, whispers, rumors. ALWAYS. When an individual abuses kids year after year after year, it’s because those around him CHOOSE to let it happen.
Period.
How many lives did these shitstains at PSU ruin?
They should ALL spend the rest of their lives in prison.
I meant to write “… there are ALWAYS–at the very LEAST–signs, whispers, rumors.”