BTSC Steelers Six Pack: Settling into the Bye Week Edition

six fingers on his left hand and his amp goes to eleven

The PSU Board of Trustees spokesman stated that the only information they had at their disposal was the grand jury presentment. A member also admitted that they had to make the decision immediately to appease the media and because all the big wigs had to fly back to their jobs the next day. They rushed to judgment on someone who has earned the benefit of the doubt. Neither they nor you nor I had all the facts. We may never have all the facts.

PSU is a family like Steelers Nation is a family. That’s why I’ll stick up for the guy who always did things the right way for 60 years. Until I’m proven wrong with facts.

You’re a stats guy and a Steelers fan that survived the Spring of 2010 so I would think you would understand that.

about how this isn’t the only incident where Paterno put the University and his legacy first. In the early 2000s, black players on his team started to receive hate mail. Of course this coincided with a black QB starting for Penn State. Well the athletes and the President of the Black Caucasus at Penn State at the time went to Joe Paterno about it. He did nothing, he was too scared of how it would look for Penn State, stating, ’I’m just a football coach’ and ‘he would never do anything to put Penn State in a bad light’.

Safe to say, the hate mail turned to death threats. Eventually there was a murder, a young black male was found dead where a letter had previously said a dead black male would be. Could have Paterno prevented the crime? Who knows, Paterno is held is such high regard in that community his would could have very well calmed the storm. But silence was equivalent to permission in the eyes of the murderers.

Who knows what else has been covered up in Paterno’s 40 years at Penn State. I never had a desire for the man to get fired but there is clearly a track record here for Joe doing his best to make sure the University and his legacy is seen as beacon or morality. Ironically his and the University’s legacy will have an immoral blemish because of this blind devotion.

For those who said he did what he was legally obligated to do and that should be enough. I think the fact that he was fired like John said there shows there is more to this than we know. Also the fact that JoePa sold his property to his wife, a move that is done when one suspects they may be brought to court via lawsuit.

I could see both sides at one point, but I think he had to go now. If you are Penn State and you want to upload the image of morality then you have to let go JoePa since he may be not done anything illegal – he has done something immoral – harboring a child molester.

http://loop21.com/content/other-penn-state-cover-death-threats-against-black-students

don’t give a crap about someone’s reputation. If Sandusky is guilty JoePa deserved to be fired. Franco should keep his mouth shut until he finds out all of the facts.

Harris also was critical of state police commissioner Frank Noonan for suggesting that Paterno had a “moral obligation” to report Sandusky had sexually assaulted a boy in the showers at the Lasch Building to the police once informed by an eyewitness, a 28-year-old graduate assistant coach later identified as current Penn State wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator Mike McQueary.

“When I heard that, it blew my mind,” Harris said. "Why would they bring the moral into the legal? Now, everyone gets to interpret in their own way. That’s what really bothers me: Joe did what was right for him to do. He forwarded the information to his superiors. That’s the legal procedure at Penn State.

He’s essentially saying that Joe did what he could do. And that if that didn’t stop the behavior as it were, well then its not Joe’s fault. That is condoning right there. He also suggests that it was a one time incident, with an “ex” coach. As far as I can tell, the “incidents” occurred several times, over the years. That’s just gross negligence if true, and right now, the court of public opinion is probably not on the side of Harris. Really surprised he would risk associating his name with that whole fiasco.

Franco is a very identifiable former Steeler (see if you can find too many people that remember he played his last year for the Seahawks). The Steelers organization has taken some pretty big hits to its reputation recently. It isn’t fair, but the court of public opinion has already ruled on this PSU case and I daresay it isn’t too difficult for many members of our idiocracy to jump right from “rapistburger” (a term I only use to illustrate my point) to the next stupid and easy association Franco Harris is handing them on a silver platter.

I don’t like it, but them’s the facts. You can argue against it until you’re blue in the face but it won’t change how lazy most people are when it comes to lumping the guilty together with those that associate with them. So, to recap in less than six degrees: Child Molester > Paterno > Franco > Steelers

psst… we need something to talk about lol

I think it is effectively dead as far as football discussion goes.

But they might use the ones in the basketball stadium sometimes, I dunno where I got the basketball thing from, they might be separate, but I think both teams use them