Joe Paterno Is Dead at 85
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 22, 2012, 9:30 AM
The Former Penn State coach died today. He was 85.
The family told reporters on Saturday that his condition had worsened.
Joe Paterno died today from lung cancer.
USA Today reported:
Days after he was fired in November 2011, it was disclosed that Paterno was suffering from lung cancer.
In many eyes, the sordid scandal tarnished the legacy of Paterno, who spent 62 seasons on the Nittany Lions football staff and became the winningest Division I coach in the history of the sport.
Rest in peace Joe Paterno.
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RedBeard commented:
Very sad ending to a life.
Sasja commented:
I don’t know what he did, or didn’t do, having not followed the story. I do pray he found peace and forgiveness in the end and is with our Lord. RIP.
MustComment commented:
Wow. Shocked by this news, how sudden. RIP
Kate commented:
From what I read, Paterno reported it to school officials and they are the ones responsible for not getting the police involved. IMO, I think the school attacked Paterno to help save face. I believe he was treated badly.
No Man commented:
May Perpetual Light shine upon him.
May he rest in peace.
VengefulSpatula commented:
Wow, you people are seriously feeling bad for a child rapist?
I hope he rots in hell.
olm commented:
I can’t believe how quickly his life was over.
I don’t know what he did or didn’t do, and I suspect we will never know. I feel sorry and always will feel sorry for the innocents of that community but I do not think Paterno is one of them.
Amjean commented:
I also don’t understand why Paterno was everyone’s target. From what I understand
one of his assistant coaches or colleague of some sort thought he might have seen
some inappropriate behavior; reports stated that it was vague. Paterno then did what
he was supposed to do by the school’s rules and regulations, report it to his superiors.
They are the ones who dropped the ball.
After that, I don’t really know who knew what when. Did Paterno receive more concerned
statements from others and ignored them? I haven’t heard that reported.
Patty commented:
Melancholy. The students seemed to love him. I believe he knew that. RIP
The Underground Conservative commented:
#6: Joe Paterno was not a child rapist. Nor did he knowingly protect one. Save that bile and venom for people who deserve it.
wanumba commented:
#6 January 22, 2012 at 10:00 am
VengefulSpatula commented:
Wow, you people are seriously feeling bad for a child rapist?
I hope he rots in hell.
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He wasn’t the one doing the acts, the sleaziod in question is in custody. Will give Paterno some slack in that that investigation has been going on for some time and he wouldn’t have been able to comment on it.
But, he messed from the get-go. Paterno could have used his position to clean house at the right time and demand that the other POS couldn’t work his way back in to use the university as a base for his criminal abuse.
The huge state university bubble world is a big mistake .. in every state, not just PA.
Blue Collar Todd commented:
He is getting what he deserves either way.
http://bluecollarphilosophy.com/2012/01/former-penn-state-coach-and-child-molester-harborer-joe-paterno-had-died/
I doubt he was ignorant of this and he did not follow up.
jojo commented:
Paterno knew and did nothing.
Alana commented:
The guy was old. He reported it to his higher-ups. He was quoted as saying something about not really knowing about rape of a man – as in, didn’t realize it existed, or didn’t believe it could have happened, or something.
Crazy rabid witch hunt blamed him for something he didn’t do, couldn’t even think of doing, and reported to his superiors as he was supposed to do.
He said in hindsight he was sorry he didn’t do more. What more does anyone want?
I think this killed him. Helped kill him. Old, lung cancer, horrible thing happening = die really quickly.
By the way, I’m not into sports and never even heard of him before all this.
Retro commented:
RIP Joe Paterno
Retro commented:
#6 VengefulSpatula commented:
Wow, you people are seriously feeling bad for a child rapist?
I hope he rots in hell. He won’t be there but you may wind up there
stupid is as stupid does
Deanna commented:
RIP
That said the man is dead, but it doesn’t absolve him from the mistakes he made. He will have to ask his Creator to do that.
Many on here are posting general comments that portray him in a positive light, they need to read up on the story. All I will say is that Paterno knew this man for many many years, worked side by side with him, had asked him to quit , knew about a previous incident, knew he took young boys to practices and other places with him, etc. even Paterno said he should have done more. I think Paterno realized and regreted too late.
bg commented:
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oh my!!
i hope the media feels good about themselves..
because for all intent & purpose.
they helped push an innocent man to his death..
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bg commented:
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to have him expire with that garbage
attached to his name is unforgivable..
hope & pray this causes a student
backlash 10 times the first one..
may he have such a HUGE FUNERAL PROCESSION that the MSM
will be forced to cover it, and let them try & speak ill of the dead..
i dare them..
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bg commented:
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my sincere condolences to his family & friends..
Rest In Peace Mr. Paterno..
your 85 years were most certainly not wasted..
sorry i can’t say the same for some who are still with us..
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chachooga commented:
This only saddens me….the scandal at PSU doesn’t tarnish JoePa in my opinion…and I am an FSU guy so no PSU homer love here.
It makes me think worse of the Sandusky sicko and the disgusting evil things he was doing.
Sandusky tarnished JoePa and PSU and now a legend has died.
bg commented:
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Retro #16 January 22, 2012 at 11:24 am
I D I O T ! !
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bg commented:
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clarification re: #22 January 22, 2012 at 12:22 pm bg
Retro #16 January 22, 2012 at 11:24 am
A P O LO G I E S ! !
VengefulSpatula #6 January 22, 2012 at 10:00 am
I D I O T ! !
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waicool commented:
If you knew a child rapist was working in your organization and did very little about it, you would deserve to have that attached to your legacy. RIP Joe Paterno, your example taught us an important lesson.
bigL commented:
he’ll get the blame for it all now that he is in a hot place listening to Barry Manilow over and over.
Bonanza driver commented:
Sandusky was not an employee of Penn state when the infamous shower incident occured. Joe reported what he knew to school officials. Case closed! Sandusky is going to be tried for his behavior. The media ruined a great man in their rabid quest for ratings…
Corky Boyd commented:
I hope and believe he will be remembered for his incredible contribution to Penn State and college football. He was and is a winner.
bg commented:
Wow, you people are seriously feeling bad for a child rapist?
I hope he rots in hell.
Taxpayer commented:
My cousin played for him as a walk-on. JoePa was great at giving kids opportunity and demanding excellence. It’s so sad that his career had to end the way it did, but what he’s done for hundreds (thousands?) of young men and the Penn State community is nothing short of incredible.
Taxpayer commented:
bg
Get the FACTS straight, ignoramus. Paterno didn’t rape anyone.
myohmy commented:
He turned a blind eye to all the victims. His loyalty only lies on all these crooked men that does not want to stop the money flowing to the university. Joe Paterno has no moral.
valerie commented:
#32 January 22, 2012 at 10:22 am
bg commented:
sock puppet, typo, or accidental partial post?
wanumba commented:
I think the post below may answer the questions raised by this oddball thing:
#28 January 22, 2012 at 1:51 pm
bg commented:
Wow, you people are seriously feeling bad for a child rapist?
I hope he rots in hell.
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#6 January 22, 2012 at 10:00 am
VengefulSpatula commented:
Wow, you people are seriously feeling bad for a child rapist?
I hope he rots in hell.
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I told bg to get an avatar. The Left habors sociopathic liars who will do this sort of dirty tricks like nic hikjack.
before getting an avatar: get yourself a new email address expressly for the avatar – with no private info – keep it separate. THEN go to the avatar site with a logo or pick one of theirs and attach the new email to it. That way it keeps it separate from your own personal email address. remember, it’s getting dirty – even on low level comments sections.
VengefulSpatula commented:
#10
Did you not hear his phone interview? He sure as hell didn’t sound innocent.
wanumba commented:
A fundamental problem with all this is that universities have become sports clubs, and they have created an isolated world apart from the rest of society. These big state UNIs pull the 18-24 year olds out of every corner of the state and lump them together in Logan’s Runville.
Universities are supposed to be about academics, but the tuition is subsidizing sports, while student athletes get chicken feed compared to the pro coaches. UNIs should be forced to divest sports – to independent clubs and stick to TEACHING.
Screams screams, but this has become a national travesty and will bankrupt the country. We can do “football” but not “foriegn language” or “mathematics.”
VengefulSpatula commented:
Lol. Wow, I’m going to hell and I’m stupid? If I’m going to hell, I can assure you it’s not for expressing an opinion. And sharing an opinion from my gut feeling, is not stupidity.
None of you can stand a differing view, can you?
bg commented:
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i did not write the following:
[#28 January 22, 2012 at 1:51 pm
bg commented:
Wow, you people are seriously feeling bad for a child rapist?
I hope he rots in hell.]
that is not my post..
but i’m not too worried, as i know the regs know that..
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bg commented:
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wanumba #33 January 22, 2012 at 3:32 pm
thank you wanumba, i forgot about it, will get on it asap..
thanks again..
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bg commented:
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the alleged “guilty” party is JERRY SANDUSKY, not Joe
Paterno, evidently he’s the one who should rot in hell..
[In 2009, when the case first landed in the office of the attorney general, no one knew where it would lead. The mother of a Clinton County, Pa., freshman called the local high school to report that her son had been sexually assaulted by Sandusky. Sandusky was barred from the school, where he had served as a volunteer coach, and the matter was reported to the authorities.
The district attorney in Centre County, where Sandusky was alleged to have molested the boy, passed the case on to the attorney general.
The Clinton County teenager — Victim 1, as he would become known in the grand jury report made public in November 2011 — alleged that he first met Sandusky through the Second Mile when he was 11 or 12. Sandusky had indecently fondled him and performed oral sex on him, the boy said.
But prosecutors, lacking physical evidence of an assault, worried about the fortunes of a case that might end up with little more than competing claims — by the boy and by Sandusky. To make a charge stick, they concluded, they needed to explore whether one boy’s claims were merely one among others, perhaps many.
The answer to their question, it turned out, lay in a voluminous police report sitting for a dozen years in the old case files of the Penn State University Police. Investigators for the attorney general’s office had heard rumors that Sandusky had come to the attention of law enforcement officials sometime in the past, but they were not sure when or where.
The investigators began calling around to nearby police departments; they received a hit when they reached the campus police.
In 1998, an 11-year-old boy, now known as Victim 6, had come home with wet hair and told his mother he had showered with Sandusky at Penn State’s athletic complex. She immediately reported it to the university police, the grand jury report said.
As investigators leafed through the old report — it ran close to 100 pages — they came to believe that the campus police officers had truly wanted to make a case against Sandusky, according to those with knowledge of the investigation. The officers had gone so far as to set up a sting operation in which the boy’s mother called the coach, and, with the police listening in, confronted Sandusky.
According to the grand jury report, he admitted to showering with her son and another boy, said he did not think that his private parts had touched her son, but acknowledged that what he did was wrong.
Ultimately, the district attorney decided against taking the case to trial, a decision that, years later, the attorney general’s investigators could understand. According to people with knowledge of the current Sandusky case, the district attorney’s decision in 1998 was a close call, even with the evidence the campus police had.
But what most struck the investigators, according to people with knowledge of the current case, was that the university itself seemed to have done nothing in the wake of the police investigation. Whether that was because other senior officials at Penn State did not know of the investigation or because they knew of it, but chose to do nothing, is a central question for investigators today.]
seems to me a lot of people are as “guilty”, if not
moreso, as Joe Paterno, go freakin’ figure.. gah!!
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burt commented:
Joe Paterno is NOT a child rapist. The media wanted him to retire five years ago, when he didn’t, they went after him. If you know that the corner convenience store is robbed and you only report the crime to the aurthorities, you should be lynched for NOT stopping the robbery?
wanumba commented:
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#36 January 22, 2012 at 3:44 pm
VengefulSpatula commented:
Lol. Wow, I’m going to hell and I’m stupid? If I’m going to hell, I can assure you it’s not for expressing an opinion. And sharing an opinion from my gut feeling, is not stupidity.
None of you can stand a differing view, can you?
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It’s just a good thing it’s God who’s making the judgment calls and not you. You got the wrong guy and you’re lying .. so … soo … be careful what you wish on others may come back to bite you.
VengefulSpatula commented:
Fox did a phone interview with Joe Paterno and when asked if he was involved with doing anything sexual to a child, he didn’t make a statement saying he didn’t do it. In fact, what he did say, did not at all help his case of innocence at all.
VengefulSpatula commented:
After that interview, I held back on trusting that the guy was innocent. Pardon me, if I prefer to look out for kids. I guess I’m a horrible person for doing that.
VengefulSpatula commented:
I wish I could find the phone interview, I saw on Fox. I’ve been googling for it, but no luck It was on one of their morning shows, when this scandal first came about. I know Joe Paterno was asked straight out, if he did anything to a child and his answer was anything but denial. His answer stuck in my head, because I couldn’t believe how passive it was. If I were accused of such a thing, I would want to prove I was innocent and not just be passive about the whole issue.
Still, I can’t help but feel that Paterno and Sandusky are in the same boat, as in neither are a good person. I consider this a case of sports being more important than morality.
Rose commented:
@#6—I guess you cannot read or lack comprehension skills—-go back and review the whole story or continue to sound like an idiot—-
RIP JoePa— you deserved better.
Matt commented:
Joe Paterno knew about at least one incident that happened on Penn State’s campus. While he reported it to the AD, when nothing happened he still allowed Sandusky access to the campus. Sandusky was on campus one week before he was arrested. At that point Joe Pa knew of the grand jury investigation because he had testified before it.
He may not have committed a crime, but his firing was justified.
ogee commented:
Hmmm The local news says he was 65 not 85. I know he looks 85 but I’ll have to go with the local news.
ogee commented:
Oh and joe gave lots of money to the obama campaign and is in cahoots with him. Look it up.
Whatever Joe……
VengefulSpatula commented:
If he was innocent, he would have done a better job defending himself.
Glad you all can act like school children, by imitating me. I honestly thought this was a mature site, guess not. Oh well, no skin off my back. I’ll still post here.
jd commented:
#48
that was his son.
Joe Paterno is still a hero to me. RIP Joe, we’ll keep fighting for you.