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REST IN PEACE, JOE-PA

Found January 22, 2012 on Sportsman's Daily:
PLAYERS: Joe Paterno
TEAMS: Penn State Nittany Lions

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* As a Penn State alumni, no jokes this morning. Just sadness that Coach Paterno passed away so quickly after being embattled by the Sandusky scandal. A few years back, I wrote at length about Micheal Vick’s “Bad Newz Kennels” and the disgrace that Vick was. Wow, Sandusky sure showed me a new dimension of sickness that overshadowed Vick’s sins by a hundred miles. Jerry Sandusky destroyed so much of what Joe Paterno built at Penn State. But thankfully, though damaged—-Paterno’s legacy is still a great one. It’s been said that Paterno coached into his 80s because he was a close friend of Bear Bryant—-and he always felt that like the Bear, as soon as he quit coaching, he’d pass away quickly. He was right. RIP Joe-Pa.

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