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Strength and peace to his family.

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

 :(

Terrie said it best; he and Coach Bryant will have a great time now.

What an awful year for the Paterno family.

I have not seen an official report of his death, only seriously ill.

Yeah, CNN and ESPN are both reporting he's in serious condition.

Dan McGinn, the Paterno family spokesman, at 8:57 p.m. on reports about Joe Paterno's death: "Absolutely not true."

My apologies if not true. Came across in a text from a generally reliable source. What kind of sick b.... plays with something like that?

But NJ.com is reporting it.

link (http://photos.nj.com/star-ledger/2012/01/joe_paterno_dead_at_85_7.html)

Even if it's not true yet, the reports don't make it seem like he's going to pull through this.

This is all very unseemly. CBS, Huffington, People Mag, reporting his death. As of 4 minutes ago ESPN radio repotting that family is denying this. What is the rush to report a man's passing? It's not like breaking the watergate story.

IzzyGould Izzy Gould
RT @JayPaterno: I appreciate the support & prayers. Joe is continuing to fight.


OnwardState Onward State
To OS followers: Our 8:45 pm tweet about Joe Paterno's death appears to be inaccurate, according to @JayPaterno, who says he's alive. (1/2)

"@ScottPaterno: CBS report is WRONG - Dad is alive but in serious condition We continue to ask for your prayers & privacy during this time"

Agreed.  I can't imagine being a family member reading reports about a loved one's passing while he is still in the hospital, apparently in serious condition.  It's hard enough having a seriously ill family member as it is.

Why can't CBS report Tim Brandos career has died.

Another media superman wanting to be the first to report something.  ???

yep , at least this will distract the sweet teabag reporters  :dunno:

Pitiful journalism. Huffington evidently reported what CBS said. CBS went by what the PSU student newspaper wrote. Hey guys, here's a novel idea: do your own reporting and know what's going on BEFORE you write. When I was in the newspaper biz, I would have been tossed out on the street for reporting something without getting all the facts first.

how it went down .... http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/160270/how-false-reports-of-joe-paternos-death-were-spread-and-debunked/

Many of his victories were won by cheating. Most by playing inferior competition. His legacy will be "the guy that harbored child rape".

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

He died this morning (Sunday).   :(

God Bless the whole Paterno family. :(
This really breaks my heart. If not for the grace of God, my mom would've died from lung cancer. God lead my sister to find information on a great clinical trial which sent Mama to the correct doctor and gave her a second chance. (and 3rd she just last year beat another case of lung cancer)

RIP Joepa


this is how I will remember him
(http://www.crimsontidezone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Nick-Saban-Bobby-Bowden-Penn-State-Alabama.jpg)

(http://media.philly.com/images/600*450/20111113_inq_cu1jackson13-b.JPG)

This photo is a classic.  WHAT A CONTRAST THESE TWO WERE! 
God love 'em both.

May god's blessings be upon his family, in this sad time.

I am not sure how I will remember him.

I will have to think about it for a while. My reactions and thoughts to current events sometimes change after time passes.

I'm with you, Hank. Before November 2011, I couldn't name another coach other than CPB that I had more respect for. That took a huge hit Nov. 5. Unfortunately, there will always be that taint on his career, but I don't think I will completely forget what he accomplished prior to these disturbing events. God rest his soul, and prayers to his family in this time of difficulty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FemFcgw_Os4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQiVuweU8lU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1x3YaGDyX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfFWMxvkFsI

awesome video Chech   8)
boy , that bring the memories flooding back at breakneck speed

oh geeez ....  :o  :eyeroll:


Westboro Baptist ‘Church’ to picket Paterno’s funeral

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/22/westboro-baptist-church-to-picket-paternos-funeral/related/

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/01/nick_saban_reacts_to_joe_pater.html

I'll hold 'em down if Jordan Jefferson will kick 'em in the face.   >:(

My prayers are with the Paterno family in this time of grief.

1982 Penn St wins the National Championship, Coach Paul Bear Bryant passes. 2011 Alabama wins the National title. Joe Paterno passes.. 

 :tinfoil:

One of my cousin in laws lives in Pearl, MS.  There was a soldier who died and was being honored w/ a parade.  Westboro was planning on a protest.   Well wouldn't you know it, a bunch of pickup trucks broke down in the parking lot of the hotel that had a bunch of kansas tags and they were miraculously fixed once the funeral procession was over.  Good ol boy network FTW.
http://thehayride.com/2011/04/westboro-baptist-church-goes-to-mississippi-and-loses/ (ftp://http://thehayride.com/2011/04/westboro-baptist-church-goes-to-mississippi-and-loses/)

http://thehayride.com/2011/04/westboro-baptist-church-goes-to-mississippi-and-loses/

Harley riders show up in mass and also surround the Westboro clowns.

I'm 100% behind you guys. Child rape erases all the positives, especially since it went on for another 9 years more.

 :(

It's so sad that his career and life ended the way it did, may he rest in peace.

Yes it is. His body of work will always be viewed through the prism of his last and worst mistake. R.I.P Jo Pa.

I think all of us will have mixed emotions when we think back on Paterno. His legacy will always be tainted and rightly so. His lack of action on Sandusky will always be viewed as totally inexcusable. It's just sad that everything had to end like it did. I truly feel for the Paterno family.

Agreed.  Read what Coach Saban and others said about JoPa.  Excellent comments especially from him and Coach Bowden: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/22/college-football-reacts-to-the-passing-of-joe-paterno/

CNS was the only one who told it like it was

Here's my take. Joe knew there was a problem and he told someone. When no one did anything about Sandusky Joe should've done more. He didn't and that's on him. But if any of a half dozen to a dozen officials, WHOSE JOB IT WAS TO DEAL WITH SUCH THINGS, had done their job, Joe would have not been in that position.

To Joe, I say RIP. To the police and psu suits that failed to protect those kids and contributed to the downfall of a great coach and a good man, they can rot in hell.

To all of those who are ripping on Paterno on the day of his death, I say respect the dead. 

JP was from a different generation.  A generation that did not understand or discuss homosexual child rape.  This would be a completely foreign topic for him, something he would be as equipped to handle as an invasion from Mars.  Maybe an invasion from Mars would be easier for him to understand.  At least there were movies on it.  This other topic was so foreign, that his assistant coach did not give him particulars.  The topic was so foreign that, even after details were revealed, JP remained completely baffled. 

So what did he do?  He talked to university administration and police and allowed them to handle it.

What would Bear do?  (WWBD)?  Well, Bear was one of a kind, and this kind of thing would completely baffle him too.  I'm guessing that he would have, at first, done the same thing that JP did, report to administration and police. 

But being the Bear, yes, I believe that he would have done more.  If those first steps did not yield the desired result, Bear would have pushed further.  He would have seen to it that the party responsible from causing the problem would never see the inside of the football facilities again.

But the Bear was a visionary.  Only the Bear could have integrated the University of Alabama football team when many were clamoring for segregation.  JP, despite his wins, was not quite the same coach as Bear Bryant.  He did not have the same vision. 

Or maybe he was just old.  At the age this happened under JP's watch, Bear was long dead.

All this is to say that, respect the dead.  Bear Bryant wouldn't have it any other way.

I liked your first sentence.

Here's the difference.

Coach Bryant knew when to bow out. Coach Paterno did not.

I doubt Coach Bryant would have spent any time he did not have to with this (now dead) character.

It is JoPa's fault we ever arrived at the McQueery/shower scene. The child rape did not begin that day!

Well God will be the judge now. So he is in Heaven on his way somewhere else, me I'd like to think he made it to Heaven. Our prayers go out to his family and PSU. PSU probably needs our prayers as much as anyone. RTR!

Yep.

 :-\

So true.