Warbler said:
CP3S said:
Warbler said:
I have to say Frink, when you were 18-21 years of age, you must have been very wise, smart, and mature for your age.
I side with Fink 100% on this.
And I don't get what that has to do with maturity or wisdom.
sometimes, it takes maturity and wisdom to understand what is right and wrong. I believe that is case here. I believe it would be very easy for someone who was young and immature to think it was wrong to fire Paterno, and to be upset by it. To a lot of people there, he was their hero. Why is it wrong for them to be broken hearted over this? Try and put yourselves their shoes.
I just disagree that it takes either maturity or wisdom to realize that a guy who knew about that sort of thing and said nothing should be fired. I understand the heart break, but kids need to realize that the right call was made.
walkingdork said:
My hope is that in 2 years people don't pretend to forget what's happened and begin to gush over Paterno again. I can just picture a new Joe Paterno statue at Penn State in a few years and that's pathetic.
there already is a statue of him there. Yeah, as much as I hate to say it, there should never be another one.
Agreed.
Paterno meant more to Penn State than Lombardi means to Green Bay.
Blasphemy of the highest nature. Lombardi ranks just below Jesus in this state. It's hard to walk into a school or business in Wisconsin and not see a plague, sign, poster, picture, etc of Lombardi or a quote of Lombardi (he has many famous quotes about life and football).
There are countless pubic buildings, streets, bars, etc named after Lombardi. No Wisconsin coffee table is complete without some book of great moments or quotes from the life of Vince Lombardi.
If Vince Lombardi were still alive today, woman would wash his feet with their hair and he would walk the land and perform miracles including turning feeding 5,000 men with a single brat and turning water into beer.
In short Vince Lombardi is the mother fucking man in Green Bay and all of Wisconsin. :)