There were two football games last weekend involving two programs who are going through two scandals of two different kinds, in two different states, and in two different conferences.
The first is Penn State, which has been in an ongoing controversy about Joe Paterno and the way the coach who won 409 football games for the Nittany Lions handled the fact that his longtime defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was molesting children on the Penn State campus, starting perhaps as early as 1976.
For some incredibly tone deaf and stupid reason, Penn State chose to honor the late Paterno at Saturday’s game against Temple. The presumed goal of this tribute was to remind everyone of the good things Joe Paterno did, like donating to the school library, making sure his athletes graduated and got degrees, and of course, the winning of all those football games. Continue reading
Nathan Is Write 