Penn State Fans Rain Profanity, Beer On Protester With 'Honor The Abused Kids' Sign

you’re trying to take the opinion that this is, at the very least, everyone affiliated with Penn State’s fault. My view is that it is ultimately Jerry Sandusky’s fault and secondarily anyone who actually knew what he did and covered it up. I still haven’t seen you give any reason to think that any players knew about this.

Kids lives get "screwed" by not playing 3 football games?

Absolutely. Certainly not as much as getting raped, but unless you can prove they’re culpable in the crime/coverup, yes, they’re already getting screwed even without their games being cancelled. Can you imagine being a player for Penn State and having to go through all of this garbage?

All the adults deprived of 3 hours of entertainment — the end of the world?

I’ve never once brought them up.

This is punishment?

Again, who are we talking about punishing? People who knew about this whole thing the same time you and I did.

You still reflect this same world view that footballl is everything, and depriving the students of a game is a heinous and tragic thing.

The latter, of course not. The former, while maybe not “heinous and tragic”, it certainly isn’t a good thing. These kids have devoted a good chunk of 4-5 years of their lives to play football at Penn State. To be so flippant about their commitment because you don’t think football is as important as they do is a little dismissive of them.

Let’s say you take your kids to a neighbor’s house down the street because he has a swimming pool. And he lets all the nieghborhood kids play there. And you find out this guy’s brother who lived with him was molesting children right there in that house and he did nothing to stop it. Would you want your kids to keep going there because you didn’t want to deprive them of swimming pool play? Wouldn’t you yank their butts home and keep them there? Would you feel participating in any activity in that house, or would you want to wait at least until the whole mess got sorted out, and the house got sold to someone else?

The brother is in jail, the neighbor has had his house repossessed, and the house is in the process of being sold to someone else. If I knew that and my kids really enjoyed swimming (perhaps it was the reason they were going to college for free), yeah, I’d let them go to the pool provided I felt that the risk was gone. Do you think there is a remote chance that any kids are going to get molested in the Penn State football facilities the rest of this season?

I’m saying this as a diehard college football fan, as my sig probably indicates. But if my college coach had done anything like this I’d be the first person calling for his head and boycotting games until all the guilty were out, and the thorough investigation completed.

How is that not what is going on at Penn State right now? They’re firing people left and right, very much to the detriment of a football team with a good chance of winning the Big Ten.

I hope you understand.

I understand why you’re mad at Sandusky/Paterno/McQueary/Spanier/etc. 99% of folks out there are. I just don’t understand the “salt the earth” philosophy when it comes to people who had nothing to do with this just because you’re mad at society. The “football is king” phenomenon certainly isn’t exclusive to Penn State, so I’m surprising you’re not just calling for the NCAA to cancel the entire D-1 football season at this point. It wouldn’t accomplish anything, but I’m guessing it would make you feel better about a situation in which you’re not even remotely involved.