Pri: Don’t underestimate the importance of good knees later in life. Mine are shot and, man, you feel it everyday.
Pennsylvania is pretty amazing when it comes to producing top-notch football talent. Ditka, Marino, Montana, Kelly, Revis… the list goes on and on.
I agree with what you said about Paterno, especially the moral cowardice. As repugnant as I find physical cowardice, moral cowardice is far worse and from someone in the role of coach and mentor to young men. Watching JoePa trying to whitewash his role and offering tepid excuses about possibly having “done more”. Fucking sick.
Being a Catholic, this hits home very hard. For me, the Church’s cover-up was far worse than the crimes themselves and that is saying something. While Penn State certainly doesn’t rise to the level of what happened within the Catholic Church, the disregard by those in power was awful. The one coach who could’ve intervened and stopped the rape of a 10yo, but instead went home and called his dad. Are you fucking kidding me? My God. How does this person live with himself?
