Joe Paterno Diagnosed with Lung Cancer

Lung Karma

Crazy shit. Hope he recovers of course. That said, his son is a shady attention whore who needs to man up and learn that nepotism is not exactly making your own way.

I do hope he recovers but just so he can live to see the final shit go down in this sordid affair.

However, knowing what those folks will do to protect the Paterno legacy, I would not be surprised if this is not some made up shit to get a little sympathy play from the press. Yeah, I’m a heartless dick, but fuck that guy (figuratively, not in a real Sandusky way).

In other news, OSU just blew it.

Hey ssr50.
You need to do a follow up on the “Boone pickens having fun at Texas expense” hi-lightning the majestic el-flodo in Ames on Friday nite.
Hook’Em

Apparently the doctor found the lung cancer 10’years ago but instead of starting treatment or telling Joe Paterno about the results went home and told his father and left it at that.

2011 season will be historically be darkened by the cloud of the Penn State child rape scandal. There has been nothing to equal it in the decades of college football.

On another note; please don’t let LSU play Bama for the NC. It wasn’t that great of a game the first time around. Just two teams with great defense and weak offense.

With the scandal and no longer being football coach I expected him to probably die within a few months. The lung cancer is just a surface reason.

@Newy, that was funny. thanks

Cancer as karma? This board is f***ed up.

jerryw is right. In fact, he may already be dead and his son Scott has decided to put off announcing it to get himself maximum media exposure.

Is Scott Paterno still pleading for Twitter followers? That family needs a new spokesperson asap. Or better yet, just don’t speak at all.

Waiting for folks (you know who you are) to spend the next 48 hours telling us how the lung did what it was legally obligated to do.

Sorry Art, I can’t oblige you here. I just don’t find cancer very funny.

TexanNick, I don’t find cancer funny either….. but I think spending hours on end trying to defend someone who placed his legacy above the lives and safety of young kids that were (presumably) being sexually assaulted is curious at best, and falls more in the disgusting category.

Well Art, I completely respect that position. I just don’t feel that you, me, or anybody else has the information yet to determine if that’s what he was actually doing. Just in the last week, we’ve seen conflicting reports about whether McQueary stopped the assault, whether he spoke to police, etc.

We’re never going to know exactly what Paterno thought. But what would be helpful is to find out what he was told by his superiors after they were made aware of the allegation. To me, that plays a big part in any moral culpability he might have had.

Understand, I’m not defending Paterno. I’m defending the PROCESS. And as someone who’s dealt with cancer in my family, I will absolutely call out any asshole that thinks it’s funny. I’m glad you’re not in that group.

At the risk of beating a dead horse on this whole subject Nick, waiting to find out what Paterno was told by his superiors is going to take a bit because, well, he had no superiors. No matter what the organizational chart might say, nobody in the college or town told him what to do. There is no plausible scenario where this thing gets swept under the rug for a decade without Paterno’s cooperation.

And as someone that lost my father to cancer I definitely do not find it funny… unless it happens to someone that enabled a child molester to continue finding victims just to protect his own legacy, then it is freaking hilarious.

Stuck, wasn’t the meme, as recently as a month ago, that Paterno was essentially figurehead? That while Penn State couldn’t afford to be perceived as shoving him out the door, that his day-to-day involvement was minimal? If so, that doesn’t really track with a guy orchestrating a massive conspiracy to conceal these crimes.

I agree that they had Paterno’s cooperation… But was it willing cooperation, or unwitting? The answer to that seems essential to a fair analysis of his moral culpability.

Fair point about the mere figurehead status, and if the first knowledge of the incident happened in the last few years I’d agree with you. But the first incidents that we know of happened 13 years ago when Paterno was still very involved and mentally capable. The cooperation had to be willing.

I hear ya, Stuck. Reasonable minds can differ. I’m not saying you’re wrong. I just prefer to wait. Helps me avoid eating crow later.

Some people just don’t get. All of you people should google the article, “Feeling Superior” and let it sink in for awhile. TN, don’t waste your time anymore.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/opinion/brooks-lets-all-feel-superior.html

Reports are that in the GJ testimony, Paterno said he wasn’t aware of an incident in 1998. If there is a coverup, it runs deeper than Joe Paterno. Take a look at the history of the current governor and his relationship with Second Mile and his role as Attorney General. Take a look at Wendell Courtney. Take a look at Schultz and the Board of Trustees (who approved of Sandusky’s retirement package). I’m still waiting for one person to point out one thing in Paterno’s past that would lead someone to question his integrity/character and I’m still waiting. Assumptions don’t cut it. I’m looking for facts. This media witch hunt and the people that have gotten in line without FACTS has been fascinating to watch.