Over 200 former Penn State football players have sent a petition to the university asking it to return the statue of Joe Paterno and the player wall that stood behind it to the premises.
The players also requested a formal apology be made to Sue Paterno and the Paterno family by the university.
“We have been told during the last four-plus years that the board and administration are waiting for the appropriate time to repair the damage they created,” he said via a release. “Now is the appropriate time. Enough is enough!”
The statement, in part, says that players “remain saddened that the Penn State administration and the Board of Trustees thrust our program and coach into an undeserved negative media frenzy in 2011. Nearly five years after the firestorm, they still have not defended us or corrected the false narrative. Our legacy and our university deserve better. Penn State’s leaders should take two steps toward repairing the damage that they created.”
