Symphony Steve
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Any realistic expectation that Paterno and football would cease to define the institution have, to put it mildly, been delayed. Check out this column:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/01/bernstein-penn-state-rally-defiant-insulting/
For those of you not inclined to read the whole thing, here's an excerpt:
Now, it seems like they (Penn State leaders) needn’t have bothered, a day after they allowed 3,000 fans to gather at the football office for an organized pep rally. The marching band played, defiant placards waved, Sue Paterno appeared like some kind of deposed queen of the rebel alliance, and Freeh and Emmert were nowhere to be heard.
Wait – they can be seen, though, on the new t-shirt marketed to fans that has their faces next to that of PSU president Rodney Erickson. The back of the shirt says FOREVER 409 – a rejection of Paterno’s wins since 1998 being officially vacated – and the front says “THE FREEH STOOGES.”
More galling were the visuals, provided by the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Players posed in front of the Lasch building with young boys in Penn State jerseys. Think about that for a moment – smiling youngsters standing innocently with their Nittany Lion heroes at the very scene of multiple rapes and assaults at the hands of a monster who used such access to players as bait to ensnare victims.
Fair use prevents me from providing more, but read the entire sickening scenario for yourselves. Where the bleep are the grown-ups?
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/01/bernstein-penn-state-rally-defiant-insulting/
For those of you not inclined to read the whole thing, here's an excerpt:
Now, it seems like they (Penn State leaders) needn’t have bothered, a day after they allowed 3,000 fans to gather at the football office for an organized pep rally. The marching band played, defiant placards waved, Sue Paterno appeared like some kind of deposed queen of the rebel alliance, and Freeh and Emmert were nowhere to be heard.
Wait – they can be seen, though, on the new t-shirt marketed to fans that has their faces next to that of PSU president Rodney Erickson. The back of the shirt says FOREVER 409 – a rejection of Paterno’s wins since 1998 being officially vacated – and the front says “THE FREEH STOOGES.”
More galling were the visuals, provided by the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Players posed in front of the Lasch building with young boys in Penn State jerseys. Think about that for a moment – smiling youngsters standing innocently with their Nittany Lion heroes at the very scene of multiple rapes and assaults at the hands of a monster who used such access to players as bait to ensnare victims.
Fair use prevents me from providing more, but read the entire sickening scenario for yourselves. Where the bleep are the grown-ups?