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Old 01-22-2012, 10:37 AM
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Default Joe Paterno, 85

Thoughtful obit by Yahoo's excellent sportswriter Dan Wetzel:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...bituary_012212
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Old 01-22-2012, 10:50 AM
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Thoughtful obit by Yahoo's excellent sportswriter Dan Wetzel:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footbal...bituary_012212
He lost his will due to this Sandusky fiasco... Sad, really sad.
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:08 AM
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IT was a very sad ending to his life. As with most human beings a lot of good and a lot of bad involved in his life. He made some mistakes and had too much power toward the end of his career, in the end he should probably be defined as a superb college football coach. The saddest part for me was despite all his rhetoric about much more about life than football, it overwhelmingly consumed him and he had zero life without it it seemed to me and it got much worse as he got older.
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:12 AM
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RIP coach. Its a sad day for Penn State.
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:37 AM
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RIP Joe....sad ending to a great career....
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:38 AM
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Done in by the big C, but Sandusky was a co-conspirator. Hope the authorities throw the book at him for what he did.


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Old 01-22-2012, 04:42 PM
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This is so sad. Poor man. RIP Joe.

Geez.

What a story.
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Old 01-22-2012, 07:22 PM
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my condolences to his family, especially his wife. i can't imagine the pain of losing the person who means most to you in the world after so many years together.
it's too bad that it all ended the way it did with his career. it's a damn shame that the focus became centered on others rather than the actual criminal in that case. i get why joe had to leave, but his last months were filled with bitterness, shame, and loss.
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Old 01-23-2012, 07:52 PM
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Very sad day for PSU and for college football.
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Old 01-23-2012, 11:10 PM
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Reilly at ESPN had a very good article.....how I'll remember JoePa!
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