Look, I'll spell it out all over again because most of you are so hyped up in your quest to show us your support of the victims and how much more mortified of this you are than the person sitting next to you...that you are blind to how ridiculous you sound.
Bad, bad, terrible things happened here.
There was corruption to the highest levels of Penn State.
Boys were raped and molested and assaulted on the Penn State campus.
There was corruption to the highest levels of Penn State with this. (notice how I said that twice, because it is kind of important)
And you guys want the football team closed down. Get real. Yea, you sound awesome chanting it, really you do. I completely believe your moral and ethicaly superiority because.. when young men are raped, YOU WANT THE FOOTBALL TEAM SHUT DOWN.
It is as if through all your hazed illusions of morality, you think that Paterno himself was the one sticking it right up the asses of these boys.
Do you think that Paterno would line up kids and send them to the showers and then call Sandusky up and say "hey, got a live one here for ya buddy"?
I'm pretty sure it didn't go down like that. I'm pretty sure we have witnessed a complete breakdown of an entire chain of leadership at the highest levels here. You've got the President and VP of Penn State involved in this - and reading what I have from a lot of you, this begins and ends with the football program.
Get real.
And yes, I am well aware that all of you think I'm a Penn State apologist or a Paterno loyalist and that he's done nothing wrong. And I'll say it again and again the same thing I have said from day 1 -
Bad things happened here, and trying to pin the entire thing on one man is ludicrous and so many of you are so caught up with screaming your outrage at this incident and showing us all how intolerant you are and how heavy handed you think the punishment on one man should be - it's laughable.
You want his statue burned down, you want the football program shut down.
What about the rest of the people involved? What about the people that had the chance to prevent this years before it even reached the Penn State campus?
What about the multi million dollar library Paterno donated to the campus? Why aren't you chanting for all the books to be yanked from there and that building pushed into the ground?
No, you aren't. You're telling us all that a football team made up of students that weren't even in high school yet when these rapes occurred needs to be suspended for a year and somehow that will make everything better.
I know, I know, you hate the Penn State football organization for profitting over the years at the expense of these lives turned inside out and suffering - but somehow your moral obligation ends there. It's not right for Paterno and his cronies to push this aside and do nothing, and continue to profit in their roles.. but somehow it's ok that you bet a few bucks on these same games and picked up some beer money. Totally different, yup, absolutely. Completely different there. They shouldn't be profitting off these kids and you are going to let us all know how you feel about that. We just won't mention that you profitted a little bit too.
