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Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on January 21, 2012, 08:11:13 PM

Title: Joe Paterno
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 21, 2012, 08:11:13 PM

It's a shame that such a storied career and life were tainted at the very end by heinous scandal. Still, we must live with what we do, and what we fail to do. RIP.

Joe Paterno dies (http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34497800?ttag=gen10_on_all_fb_na_txt_0001)

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: charlesoakwood on January 21, 2012, 08:13:10 PM

::image_flames::

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: trapeze on January 21, 2012, 08:57:40 PM

Just saw this news elsewhere.

All I can say is, that was quick.

He sure screwed up his epitaph.

Title: Re: Joe Paterno - WHOAH!!! UPDATE!!!
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 21, 2012, 09:13:36 PM

Reports of Joe Paterno's death refuted by family (http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34497800?ttag=gen10_on_all_fb_na_txt_0001)

Penn State student website Onward State has reported that Penn State players were notified of longtime head coach Joe Paterno's passing via email, and CBSSports.com went on this report. Paterno, 85, had been receiving chemotherapy as part of his treatment for lung cancer.

However, Paterno family spokesperson Dan McGinn told a New York Times reporter that the report of Paterno's demise is "absolutely not true," and Jay Paterno tweeted that his father "continues to fight." Onward State has since retracted their report.

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: trapeze on January 21, 2012, 10:10:02 PM

"I'm not dead."
"What?"
"Nothing. There's your ninepence."
"Ere, he says he's not dead."
"Yes he is. "
"I'm not."
"He isn't?"
"Well, he will be soon, he's very ill."
"I'm getting better."
"No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment."
"Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations."
"I don't want to go on the cart."
"Oh, don't be such a baby."

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: Sectionhand on January 22, 2012, 02:35:26 AM

Quote from: trapeze on January 21, 2012, 10:10:02 PM

"I'm not dead."
"What?"
"Nothing. There's your ninepence."
"Ere, he says he's not dead."
"Yes he is. "
"I'm not."
"He isn't?"
"Well, he will be soon, he's very ill."
"I'm getting better."
"No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment."
"Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations."
"I don't want to go on the cart."
"Oh, don't be such a baby."

" There goes a nobleman ."
" How can you tell ? "
" He's the only one who doesn't have sh*t all over him ."

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: trapeze on January 22, 2012, 09:57:11 AM

So...

...is he dead yet?

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: trapeze on January 22, 2012, 09:59:37 AM

Apparently he is.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/22/us/pennsylvania-obit-paterno/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 (http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/22/us/pennsylvania-obit-paterno/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: Libertas on January 22, 2012, 11:13:02 AM

Well, that news was handled well.

 ::)

Hope he made peace with God.

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 22, 2012, 11:29:03 AM

Wow, what a clusterfark. Dead, not dead, dead again... How embarrassing for hi family.

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: John Florida on January 22, 2012, 12:44:30 PM

  Cancer didn't kill him the scandal did.

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: AmericanPatriot on January 22, 2012, 03:47:34 PM

I bet he died of a broken heart

Title: Re: Joe Paterno
Post by: Sectionhand on January 23, 2012, 04:49:40 AM

AP and JF ... I think you're both right .