Cujo Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Report: Joe Paterno has been taken off his respirator and his family is summoning close friends to hospital for final goodbyes.link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Getting my lounge chair and lemonade ready to watch crackers from Shippensburg claim that the board of directors killed him by firing him.Curty, if you don't postJoe Paterno...YOUUUUUUUUUU'RRRRRRE FIIIIIIIIRRRRREEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [from this mortal coil], I'm going to feel let down. β« oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is goneΒ β« Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGooo Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEW.ERA Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 That's really too bad. I mean yeah the situation he left at Penn State is but this losing a legend of the game, and that's how I'll remember him. Β JETS|PACK|JAYS|NUFC|BAMA|BOMBERS|RAPS|ORANJE| Β Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC in Da House w/o a Doubt Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Sad to see... Wish he didn't have to end his career and life on such a negative note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMac12 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Such a horrible way to end. I do pray his life does not end this way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSox44 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Sad, even if he was a pedo-protecting . He was a giant of the game.Do you think Penn State will do anything to honor him? Patch on the uniforms? A moment of silence before the first game at Beaver Stadium? Nothing at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbman21 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 For years I figured - sadly - that he wouldn't be long for this world once his coaching career came to and end, regardless of how it ended, ala Bear Bryant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Curty, if you don't postJoe Paterno...YOUUUUUUUUUU'RRRRRRE FIIIIIIIIRRRRREEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [from this mortal coil]I'm going to feel let down.All I can tell you is "Rest In Peace" is one thing you will NOT be hearing from me once it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Do you think Penn State will do anything to honor him? Patch on the uniforms? A moment of silence before the first game at Beaver Stadium? Nothing at all?They will do the minimum. β« oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is goneΒ β« Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panthers_2012 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 oh god.... I grew up watching Paterno coach against Ohio State and since I'm an a Ohio State fan, I root for the Buckeyes. But on every saturday that JoePa coaches, I root for Penn State. Heartbreaking for me to see him go like this... I trying to think of words to say, but I can't. I hope Penn State realizes what they have done and honor JoePa since he is a campus, and no to mention, nation legend. Sad to see him go out like this... oh god..oh god... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I hope Penn State realizes what they have doneAs the piece in the New York Times shows, they know full well what they've done, which was to remove the longtime enabler of a serial child rapist. If you're insinuating that they expedited his death by not letting him coach college football anymore, you're out of your mind, oh god, oh god, oh god. oh god.... Sad to see him go out like this... oh god..oh god... β« oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is goneΒ β« Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm trying to come up with other serial enablers of child abuse that also look like kindly old teddy bears, but this is best I can do: People would have an easier time disliking Paterno if he didn't look like a garden gnome. 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aci Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm trying to come up with other serial enablers of child abuse that also look like kindly old teddy bears, but this is best I can do: People would have an easier time disliking Paterno if he didn't look like a garden gnome.Every time I see his face, "After Forever" by Black Sabbath runs through my head... Hamilton Eagles- 2012 and 2013 Continental Hockey League Champions! 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015 CHL East Division Champions! Niagara Dragoons- 2012 United League and CCSLC World Series Champions! 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 UL Robinson Division Champions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramerica Industries Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I made a half-assed quip about Joe Paterno likely dying shortly after he left his post at Penn State, on the day that Andy Rooney died.This was prior to the scandal even coming to the surface.As such, this news is horrifying to me on an additional level. Hoping he improves, but it's not likely at his age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm trying to come up with other serial enablers of child abuse that also look like kindly old teddy bears, but this is best I can do: People would have an easier time disliking Paterno if he didn't look like a garden gnome.To be fair John Paul II was more of an enabler than Benedict XVI. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJTank Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Too bad Joe Pa never got a real chance to explain himself other than that Newspaper interview. www.sportsecyclopedia.com For the best in sports history go to the Sports E-Cyclopedia at http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 When that day comes, we will all be former college football coaches whose legacies have been tarnished by non-football related scandal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Joe Paterno (1926-2012)His time on this Earth was far too short to ever hear of "rape and a man". On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEd76 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 R.I.P. JoePa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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