Joe Paterno’s Living Room Window Press Conference Or: Penn State Fans Are Delusional [Update: With Video]

All, College Football, Penn State Scandal Stephen Douglas November 8th. 2011, 7:30pm

Obviously, this Penn State mess is, well, a mess. Tonight an untold number of Penn State students and fans gathered outside embattled head coach Joe Paterno’s (I’m just guessing) state-funded home in Happy Valley. These kids are delusional and disappointing.

Can you really blame them? They grew up watching mighty Penn State and its legendary Hall of Fame head coach. Penn State is their school. Their parents all have “Proud Parents of a Nittany Lion” stickers in the back window of their cars. Now the entire world has turned against their school and their coach. They don’t see a man who at the very least, turned a blind eye to a monster taking advantage of helpless children for untold years. All they see is their coach — a proud man who would rather die coaching games than live watching them.

It is puppy love at its most pathetic. That is why they can do nothing but chant and march is support of a man who will soon be asked to leave their campus. That is why we get idiots like this guy with his smarmy “Occupy McKee St” sign. They are stupid kids who can not grasp what they are doing. So pity them. Pity the fact that they rally in support as the number of victims doubled in a day. They are young and they know not what they do. Though it seems even when you are old enough to know what you do at Penn State, you don’t do the right thing either.

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[UPDATE: You have to see this Paterno video to believe it. via Dan Wolken]

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62 Responses to “Joe Paterno’s Living Room Window Press Conference Or: Penn State Fans Are Delusional [Update: With Video]”

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Billy Buckner Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:34 PM
The sad thing is I’m pretty sure I probably know a couple people who might be there…idiots.
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ATL_Badger Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:34 PM
Can you really blame them?
yes. they look like a bunch of fools.
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TexansFan Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:35 PM
Lets do some strafing runs on these bastards
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Tim Ryan (TheSportsHernia) Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:35 PM
I cannot stop laughing at those two window pictures. Unreal.
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ATL_Badger Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:35 PM
what’s theo epstein doing there? and what is creepy-eyed girl smiling about?
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ATL_Badger Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:37 PM
I cannot stop laughing at those two window pictures. Unreal.
He looks like a ghost in that first one.
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reggie_dunlap Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:38 PM
JoPa just shit his pants in the window.
/Obligitory Joe Paterno Shit His Pants post
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mrejr8234 comes for the sports posts but stays to kill the local inhabitants Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:39 PM
Al Qaeda, now is the time to get us on your side, let loose one of your suicide bombers now…
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reggie_dunlap Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:39 PM
what is creepy-eyed girl smiling about?
My guess is she farted or Theo Epstein farted.
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Mantis Toboggan Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:39 PM
I remember taking a run a few times around McKee St. Back when things seemed so simple over then.
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ATL_Badger Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:40 PM
Guy holding that sign looks like an asshole that people are going to hate working with someday.
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Billy Buckner Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:42 PM
Guy holding that sign looks like an asshole that people are going to hate working with someday.
Upon a second, and third look, you’re 100% correct.
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mrejr8234 comes for the sports posts but stays to kill the local inhabitants Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:43 PM
Dude looks like he tries to be like Tucker Max(read: Date Rapist)
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Mantis Toboggan Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:45 PM
I cannot stop laughing at those two window pictures. Unreal.
I may be upset over this, but those pictures are kinda funny. Almost as good as the giant computer.
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mrejr8234 comes for the sports posts but stays to kill the local inhabitants Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:45 PM
“Where be my pep rally?”-The Pope, after seeing Paterno getting cheered for letting a child rapist go unchecked
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reggie_dunlap Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:47 PM
You hit the nail on the head-he looks 100% asshole with all the asshole qualities that come with it.
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Der Kaiser Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:50 PM
I understand it’s your school and you hope against hope that the allegations against your legendary coach isn’t true. But this makes me so sad. It’s so hard being a sports fan sometimes, when you look around to your fellow “fans”. I love sports, but I hope to never lose my moral compass to the point where I’m doing the same thing as these “supporters” of Joe Pa outside his home.
If you love Penn State, appropriate response is to be shocked and angry. All the facts haven’t come out. I understand that. But until then, just calm down and try to wait for the truth to come out. Don’t rush to the coache’s house humming a seven nation army song. Little kids had their lives ruined, and yet these idiots are worried more about the guy who may or may not have had the power to stop it. Just sad. Really sad.
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rittyrich Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:51 PM
Can I play devil’s advocate to the public perception of JoePa right now? This language has permeated the conversation recently –
who at the very least, turned a blind eye to a monster taking advantage of helpless children for untold years
At the very least? Shouldn’t we assume it was the very most that JoePa did? We’re talking about one of the worst crimes a person can commit and we are assuming decent people turned a blind eye on purpose? What would be their motivation for doing so? Penn State is suffering from a lack of leadership which does not equate to a complete lack of morality. The people who knew the very specifics and did not further investigate? They are culpable. Therefore the first question should be – who knew what, exactly? And who did they tell? For me, except for those eye witnesses and those who spoke directly with the eye witnesses, it at least seems plausible that there are many in the PSU athletic dept. who did not know the horrifying details, which can be presumed by the fact they didn’t say anything in the face of such evil. “Did you hear Sandusky is a pederast” is a lot different than “did you hear Sandusky raped some kid in the locker room.”
For the past however many years, the running joke has been Paterno as coach. The same can be said for Paterno as leader. Paterno long ago became a symbol. Firing him or stepping down does not alleviate the problem, nor does it prove Paterno knew anything specific. I think as a symbol, at the very least, Paterno could prove more valuable in the PSU healing/retribution process as he could hanging from a limb above a lynch mob.
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ATL_Badger Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:52 PM
“It’s hard for me to tell you how much this means to me. I’ve lived for this place, and I’ve lived for people like you guys and girls, and I’m just so happy to see that you could feel so strongly about us and about your school. The kids that were victims or whatever they want to say, I think we all ought to say a prayer for them. Tough life, when people do certain things to you. Anyway, you’ve been great. Everything’s great, all right.”
No old man, everything’s not great.
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scripty Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:54 PM
I see those photos and I think about Bourne Identity when they took down that African president.
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Der Kaiser Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:54 PM
Can we get back to talking about players getting tattoos? I miss the good old days of victim-less NCAA violations.
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Mantis Toboggan Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:56 PM
I’d might bang that chick in the t dye shirt if I had a couple of drinks in me.
/trying to think of something positive here
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:57 PM
Der Kaiser, you let me down. I was totally expecting a tag of “/regardless of everything else, baseball still sucks” from you.
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Anti-KC Res Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 7:59 PM
Though it seems even when you are old enough to know what you do at Penn State, you don’t do the right thing either. CRM
Good PR move by FSV to have CRM do a “Joe Paterno turned a blind eye to his DC fucking little boys” post. Good post, CRM.
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mrejr8234 comes for the sports posts but stays to kill the local inhabitants Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:00 PM
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Long-Brothers/123824754368780?sk=info
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Der Kaiser Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:01 PM
Der Kaiser, you let me down. I was totally expecting a tag of “/regardless of everything else, baseball still sucks” from you.
HA! Bayern’s suddenly shaky defense, NBA lockout, and now this Penn State scandal has put a major bummer into my sports opinions. I’m too busy being sad about sports I love to hate on those I despise.
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mrejr8234 comes for the sports posts but stays to kill the local inhabitants Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:01 PM
Fuck Michigan still tho
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:02 PM
I’m too busy being sad about sports I love to hate on those I despise.
we can always talk about how I want certain players in the EPL to get punched in the face over and over again. See: Suarez
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ATL_Badger Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:02 PM
I’d might bang that chick in the t dye shirt if I had a couple of drinks in me.
/jump to your own conclusions’d
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Col. Larry H. Parker Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:03 PM
Yay! ESPN doing a doc on cousin fuckers hating each other’s teams. This should be fun.
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Der Kaiser Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:03 PM
Sad thing is, when Joe Pa inevitably has to resign, people at Linebacker U will be more sad for the old man than those little boys who had their lives ruined.
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RexKramerDangerSeeker Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Classic. His neighbors must love him more than usual as he lives in a very typical neighborhood. For those not aware, and last I checked, he’s still listed in the phone book. His house phone number is still “klondike 742″.
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Yay! ESPN doing a doc on cousin fuckers hating each other’s teams. This should be fun.
WVU-Marshall?
/veal
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VladimirCrouton Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:05 PM
Fuck University of Michigan still tho
There
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Chief Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:05 PM
Yay! ESPN doing a doc on cousin fuckers hating each other’s teams. This should be fun.
Rocky IV is on AMC. That’s the only tv I found worth watching right now.
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:05 PM
His house phone number is still “klondike 742″
+1 bead on the abacus
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Rocky IV is on AMC. That’s the only tv I found worth watching right now.
they’ve had a rocky marathon all day
/i desperately need a job
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Der Kaiser Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:07 PM
we can always talk about how I want certain players in the EPL to get punched in the face over and over again. See: Suarez
Now there’s something to celebrate in front of someone’s house about
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Col. Larry H. Parker Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:08 PM
I’m quite shocked that this program doesn’t have subtitles.
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:09 PM
I’m quite shocked that this program doesn’t have subtitles.
Is the screen littered with $200,000?
/Cecil Newton’d
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reggie_dunlap Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:09 PM
Which movie was Bridgette Nielsen hotter in-Beverly Hills Cop 2 or Rocky IV?
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Chief Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:10 PM
they’ve had a rocky marathon all day
For some reason they have this thing called ‘Rocky V’ next. I’m pretty sure I remember hearing that never happened.
/Sandlot starts at 11:30p cst though.
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:10 PM
/flips to Sabres game
//I see defense and goaltending is optional tonight
///hey buffalo defense, help ryan miller not get pulled in the first period next time, assholes
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Which movie was Bridgette Nielsen hotter in-Beverly Hills Cop 2 or Rocky IV?
I’m team tall women but Bridgette always creeped me out
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VladimirCrouton Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Hey TJ
Thanks for dropping Rick Nash.
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Mantis Toboggan Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:13 PM
Which movie was Bridgette Nielsen hotter in-Beverly Hills Cop 2 or Rocky IV?
Cobra
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:13 PM
hey Vlad, no problem. He wasn’t really helping me that much (plus I have no faith in any columbus player the rest of the year). I do think I got a steal taking Kari Lehtonen. I didn’t expect Dallas to start off so hot this year.
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Mantis Toboggan Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:14 PM
Video of Paterno speaking out of his house.
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:14 PM
Vlad, I also thought I was going to make up some ground on you this week but of course I run into bstr, that canuck..
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traderjack21 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:15 PM
Did he say “Get off my lawn, you damn kids!”
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spencer096 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:17 PM
golf.
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bstr0142 Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:26 PM
Hey TJ I see you’ve become acquainted with one Christian Ehroff, judging by your “defense is optional” quote.
Good luck with that.
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BFFredo Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:30 PM
Which movie was Bridgette Nielsen hotter in-Beverly Hills Cop 2 or Rocky IV?
Cobra
Seconded
Yay! ESPN doing a doc on cousin fuckers hating each other’s teams. This should be fun.
I can’t wait until they do the Celtic-Rangers documentary.
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BFFredo Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:31 PM
Did Paterno know Sandusky was violating children? Yes? Then get him the hell out.
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Breesus Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:32 PM
Yay! ESPN doing a doc on cousin fuckers hating each other’s teams. This should be fun.
WVU-Marshall?
Ohio State-Michigan
/me
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BFFredo Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:34 PM
Are they going to interview Alabama standout RB Forrest Gump in this documentary?
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captain_spalding Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:36 PM
Are they going to interview Alabama standout RB Forrest Gump in this documentary?
white devin hester
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scripty Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:39 PM
zombie jopacalypse
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dikembemutomballs Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 8:43 PM
It is puppy love at its most pathetic. That is why they can do nothing but chant and march is support of a man who will soon be asked to leave their campus.
Nothing more scornful than an media member angry lashing out at someone with a different point of view.
To use what a previous commenter said and continue in the same vein – we’ve joked for 10 years about Paterno actually running the program, yet now – when it may be most convenient for those angry that the 84 year old still stalks the sidelines (or pressbox) – the media and public want to act like the man is as hands on as any coach in the country. Find me another coach that leaves his home – not his office at the complex – to go to practice. You think Lane Kiffin or Saban does that? It’s the equivalent of Bowden taking naps in the later years.
I’m not condoning any of the absolutely horrific bullcrap that went on up there, nor am I exonerating Paterno in any way, just merely pointing out how hypocritical and opportunistic the media can be. Just present me the facts and let me make up my own mind. By throwing an O’Reilly-esque spin factor in there it actually makes me support the nutjobs camping outside the assisted living center.
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mrejr8234 comes for the sports posts but stays to kill the local inhabitants Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 9:18 PM
Didn’t understand a goddamn word he said. He’s the highest paid state employee right?
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BFFredo Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 9:27 PM
All that press conference was missing was for Joe to do the discount double-check.
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PurdueMatt Says:
November 8th, 2011 at 9:38 PM
As I watch Joe stroll out towards the cameras with a big grin on his face, I’m not sure he comprehends the severity of this situation.
Also, any PSU students that support him are idiots. Turning a blind eye to anal rape of little boys!! Yay!! We are!! Penn State!!