Wow. It's one thing to use words like rape, bastard, retard, etc with a separate meaning. It's another to use the literal meaning and inferring equality with a petty thing like losing college football. Fuck this culture.
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Penn State football pedophilia thread (UPDATE: NCAA sanctions handed down)
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Wow. It's one thing to use words like rape, bastard, retard, etc with a separate meaning. It's another to use the literal meaning and inferring equality with a petty thing like losing college football. Fuck this culture.
Knux-Future
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From the crying pics over a statue being move it doesn't look like they get the hint....if anything this just looks like it reinforces their cult like behavior (obviously not all of them of course but the crazies will be crazies no matter what.)
Yeah i get it was a symbol I just feel like this is wasting time from the important shit (like getting the other dudes involved in this to justice, deciding punishment).
Especially since it doesn't look like it's gonna change much.
Statue had a hard life.....
Yeah i get it was a symbol I just feel like this is wasting time from the important shit (like getting the other dudes involved in this to justice, deciding punishment).
Especially since it doesn't look like it's gonna change much.
Statue had a hard life.....
Ken Masters
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Ah, penn state.
Those students are pathetic
It's not the statue's fault that people worshipped it!
BertramCooper
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Beef O'Brady, why the fuck did you leave the Pats?
Those guys have cases. The people who removed the statue are not lawyers or prosecutors.
BertramCooper
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Well, guys, it's time to pull out your handkerchiefs. SuePa is a sad panda.
http://twitter.com/sganim/status/227066361086623744
http://twitter.com/sganim/status/227066361086623744
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Aside from the asinine statement itself, the spelling and grammar doesn't speak much for PSU, either.
Dreams-Visions
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Goddamn it Meus.
Roland, I'm kind of disappointed. I thought we had thoroughly covered this already.
That's exactly why this is so important.
It's sad and infuriating that there's probably no punishment that could wake these idiots up to their outrageous hero worship and glorification of football above all other worldly concerns. It's a fucking cult, pure and simple. Not everyone is a member, but it's got massive enrollment nonetheless.
BertramCooper
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Neuromancer
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Yeah I'm sure the victims would have rather had it stay up. PSU may as well build a statue to Sandusky too while they're at it.
Dubbedinenglish
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Just got and update from my phone CNN ap that a source says "NCAA will not use death penalty" rather "significant, unprecedented penalties"
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Schad's source said the penalties are so harsh the death penalty may have been preferable. We'll see soon enough.
Read above. Strong case being made that instead of using their immediate speed bump that could be legally limited to a year or two (death penalty) they would take away scholarships and bowl appearances for multiple years. That, depending on the length, could cripple the program for a much longer period of time and have a more profound impact.
We'll see. I'm for whatever will have the most effect. Remember that the death penalty is not really death, but a suspension. Sounds like they might be going for something more meaty.
ElRenoRaven
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Yea. Talk about anger inducing. Some people really need fucking help.
Sarcasm my friend. I haven't seen anyone using the what did the statue do defense legitimately.
ROFLMAO. I like your style.
Exactly. You can do multiple things at once. I'm sure the construction people aren't taking time away from bringing the scumbags to justice by doing this.
Yup. Just shows you how fucked up they are. They didn't seem too sad about Sandusky raping children for 20 years but by god take down Joe Pa's statue and they're devastated.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Why even bother having the death penalty as an option if they aren't going to use it?
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Because legal experts have already said that the current definition of "death penalty" does NOT cover what happened at PSU. Therefore, they legally can't use it.
They can, however, implement punishment far worse than the "death penalty" (which is a 1-year shutdown of the program) and that's most likely what they're going to do tomorrow.
Multiple years of postseason bans and elimination of athletic scholarships for years will decimate the program for a decade or more.
Synth_floyd
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Yeah they could really hurt the long term viability of the Penn State football program if they do multiple years of bowl game bans and kill scholarships. No good players will want to play there with all those restrictions plus the school has a shit reputation now.
Knux-Future
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That would be a "fair" punishment.
It doesn't exactly kill off business(USC seemingly still did pretty well I think) and it sets a precedent.
Would that be enough for some people tho?
It doesn't exactly kill off business(USC seemingly still did pretty well I think) and it sets a precedent.
Would that be enough for some people tho?
elrechazado
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The paternos need to hire some real pr people, and then shut up and lay low. The more they talk the worse they make things and they seem to not be able to help themselves.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I'll see what happens, then. It's really weird that harboring a child rapist and covering that up can't be used as a reason for the death penalty.
Knux-Future
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elrechazado
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The NCAA exists for certain reasons - law enforcement, prosecutors, and civil litigation for entirely different reasons. Each need to do their different jobs here.
ElRenoRaven
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And if it does then I'm all for it.
Count Dookkake
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Beautiful.
Remember when statues were built for people who cured diseases, built nations, etc?
The negative reaction from PSU students to the removal of a statue made of a COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH is both hilarious and depressing at the same time.
bubububut JoePa was a great man who stood for integrity, honor, and using the football program for good. Oh wait...
The negative reaction from PSU students to the removal of a statue made of a COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH is both hilarious and depressing at the same time.
bubububut JoePa was a great man who stood for integrity, honor, and using the football program for good. Oh wait...
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
You would think from how devastated these people look that the photos were taken in Colorado.Ah, penn state.
Dubbedinenglish
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I see. I would prefer they not sell another ticket for that football program. Especially after their " support childhood molestation victims" game where they made a special football shirt, sold out their stadium and we find out the brass covered the scandal up for years. Tgey try to sace face but the orginazation allowed this to happen. The culture needs to change and I only see that with the most severe of punishments on the athletic system.
alfredofroylan
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Listed as one of the last pictures taken at the statue.
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http://www.faniq.com/blog/Sanity-prevails-as-the-Joe-Paterno-statue-has-been-taken-down-Blog-52580
Lovely
http://www.faniq.com/blog/Sanity-prevails-as-the-Joe-Paterno-statue-has-been-taken-down-Blog-52580
Lovely
elrechazado
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You understand that football stadiums often have statues of football players and football coaches to commemorate football, right?
Have victims actually said they have a problem with the statue?
Seriously...
have they? i don't subscribe to this thread
What do you think?
Seriously. Do you really think these people, already under scrutiny and already having been harassed and in some cases even having received death threats merely for being victims--do you really think they're going to come out and say "oh btw, we don't like the JoePa statue, please remove it thx"?
Use yer noggin.
Count Dookkake
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Yes, that is the worst thing ever. Worse than anything in this thread and worse than any part of this story.
Thank you for focusing on this horrible thing that would have gone unnoticed without your keen eye for detail.
Thank you for focusing on this horrible thing that would have gone unnoticed without your keen eye for detail.
Dubbedinenglish
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I don't even...
Yes because I'm sure the victims want more public attention and attacks from the rabid Penn State cultists. Are you going to blame them for holding their silence while they were being raped? You are sick and disturbed.
Jebus.
Did you even read what I wrote? Do you understand what a death threat is? Harassment? Do you understand how revered JoePa is in that community?
I do. What I don't understand the irrational reverence to a statue of a college coach in light of all the recent evidence.
I'm a Longhorn, and if it was Mack Brown who turned a blind eye to a child molester I'd be fine with taking down any statues or monuments which celebrate his image, regardless of whether or not I still think he's a good person because I understand that leaving symbols like that around only hurts/slows the heaiing process for victims, and for the university as a whole.
Becuase that what i said? Seriously go fuck yourself. You don't have a moral authority because I apparently have the audacity to ask a basic question that had no value judgment on taking down the statue.
Count Dookkake
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Now you're the victim.
lol
lol
Do you want the Count Dookake statue taken down? You are the only one who can make this decision.
The question has absolutely no relevance. That was the gist of my response.
It's meaningless to ask whether the victims said anything about the JoePa statue, because of course they didn't. Whatever their feelings about it, they aren't going to say anything, and so whether they've said anything is not evidence either way for their feelings on the statue. It's completely irrelevant to anything.
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