JoePa died

[cyberer]

Horrible day for sports IMO...

[Riggs]

where are you seeing this? MSN & ESPN are reporting he is in serious condition?

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...-complications

although it doesnt look good, lets hope for the best for Joe Pa

[TPotts]

Jay Paterno just tweeted 5 Minutes ago, he's still fighting.
https://twitter.com/#!/jaypaterno

[cyberer]

Wikipedia says he's dead, my Friends dad is Penn state alumni president- they all say he's dead and his dad was just told to give a press release to the media in scranton

[TPotts]

Other son Scott just did too.
https://twitter.com/#!/ScottPaterno

[REDANDGOLDPRIDE]

People.com, SI.com, and a bunch of other big sites reported he'd died but they all look pulled and I guess he's still hanging on.

I don't see how it's a "sad day for sports" and I won't pretend to be saddened by it. In my eyes it was absolutely disgusting to see all those PSU students riot over his firing, bunch of sheep. Simply, flat out disgusting to see those students put him up on this pedestal above his direct neglect of a scandal IN HIS PROGRAM that ruined the lives of a bunch of pre-teen boys. "But, but its Joe Pa, you can't do that to him!" It is a shame his legacy was and will forever be ruined by the scandal, but he brought it on himself.

[lambeauleap87]

He may not be gone yet, but it's clearly coming in the very near future...saddens me to see a legend like Papa Joe go out the way that he has...

[Autofreak2842]

This is really sad, imo. Yes he may of did some things to mess up, but we all do. No one is perfect. He was/is still debatebly on of the best college FB coaches in history. Unfortunately his legacy will be tarnished.

I actually got "blocked" from a fan page (Minnesota news station, Kare 11) trying to argue with this guy who said he hoped joe would "rot in hell". We both got blocked from what I know and all of our comments were deleted, on the article. I can understand people being upset over the whole case, but the guy is on his death bed, suffering from cancer, so I wasn't gonna listen to someone say that stuff about him, cause 1. it's messed up and 2. He is still a legend despite, everything that unfolded this year.

[indyreds]

People.com, SI.com, and a bunch of other big sites reported he'd died but they all look pulled and I guess he's still hanging on.

I don't see how it's a "sad day for sports" and I won't pretend to be saddened by it. In my eyes it was absolutely disgusting to see all those PSU students riot over his firing, bunch of sheep. Simply, flat out disgusting to see those students put him up on this pedestal above his direct neglect of a scandal IN HIS PROGRAM that ruined the lives of a bunch of pre-teen boys. "But, but its Joe Pa, you can't do that to him!" It is a shame his legacy was and will forever be ruined by the scandal, but he brought it on himself.

As a man who lost his father to lung canver last year, I want to pass along best wishes to his family and friends. It is a rough way to go. I hope that people do remember him for what he did do well during his life. Not to divert from what his assistant did, please let his family deal with what they have on their plate without the politics of that scandal! It is not nice to talk ill of the dead and 1 year ago should he have passed no one would have said one ill word about him!

[cyberer]

Did anyone hear his interview last week on the subject w/ washington post? I think he knew the end was near and he wanted to get his words out there. He sounded very frail and it was a sad interview for sure.

I feel as though we should read his final words on it at least before we defend or demonize him.


“I didn’t know exactly how to handle it and I was afraid to do something that might jeopardize what the university procedure was,” Paterno told Jenkins. “So I backed away and turned it over to some other people, people I thought would have a little more expertise than I did. It didn’t work out that way.” Steve Politi, Newark Star-Ledger columnist, found that explanation rang hollow.




Here's the article and some excerpts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...Ny0P_blog.html









And here's a reaction


It has been two-and-a-half months since the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal incited national passions, embroiled Penn State in a controversy that isn't going away any time soon and, oh, yeah, tarred and feathered the previously pristine image of Sandusky's former boss, Joe Paterno, the iconic, octogenarian football coach of the Nittany Lions whom so many were quick to chastise as an enabler to a pedophile and so many others were equally quick to defend as a blameless victim of circumstance.

Now a frail and ailing Paterno, mostly confined to a wheelchair and battling lung cancer and the lingering effects of a refractured pelvis, has broken his 10-week silence in an exclusive interview with Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins that some will view, depending on their personal opinion of what is true and what isn't, with sympathetic understanding or as a thinly disguised attempt by an old man with an agenda to preserve what's left of his fraying reputation