The joe Paterno Situation…
Hello
class today we are going to talk a little fantasy mixed with a little raw
reality. Im not going to sit here and spout off a bunch of facts this is about
how we feel about this situation. Right
now there is a huge debate going on in the not so Happy Valley about a statue. And
there seems to be a big ground swelling demanding that this statue be taken
down defaced removed even. But you know I have a little different take on this…
Lets
take a little stroll down memory lane. I am 34 years old and I cannot remember
a day till last year when Jo Pa wasn’t the Head Coach of the Penn State Nittney
Lions. He was what they call an institution out there. The name rang from the
College football Hall of Fame. But that day may never come as the tides begin
to turn after the releasing of the Freed report. This report makes claims that
Jo Pa and others in the Penn State higher archy, Were not only aware of what
Sandusky was doing but allowed it to happen for years. Accusation after
Accusation keep coming out and it looks like this monster was not caught soon
enough and a lot of lives were destroyed by his sickness. And I understand that
those who were in a position to stop it needed to do something and Jo Pa should
have. In no means am I saying that Joe Paterno was right in the way he handled
the situation. But dose he really deserve to be villanized in the same ilk as
men like Sandusky. If you ask me no, he shouldn’t be and the statue should
stand. Jo Pa has passed on and Sandusky will spend the rest of his pathetic
life behind bars having done to him what he did to so many children over the
years. Jo Pa was stripped of his position of power and respect in Happy Valley.
And in my opinion its part of what killed him. That man was Penn State and he
lived for it. But didn’t he do a lot of good throughout the years? Didn’t he
graduate countless football players who went on to become productive members of
society. Why don’t remember him for the mounds of good that he did instead of
the one huge gigantic judgemental mistake that he made in life. Leave the
statue up not to represent what Sandusky did to his victims but to represent
the man that put Happy Valley on the map and helped a lot of boys become men
using nothing but the game of football and his brilliant mind. That will be the
Jo Pa I will remember you can remember him however you want….
That’s
all for today,,,Till tomorrow Class is dismissed…
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