“Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them.
I
first started not liking [Penn State] very much when their football team beat
my beloved [Missouri Tigers] in the [1970 Orange Bowl], 10-3. Yes, I have made it quite clear that my first
love is the [Arkansas Razorbacks], but with me spending more time in the state
of misery than opportunity, I have found it prudent to save some love for good ol’
Mizzou.
Anyway,
that Orange Bowl victory came at the end of [Joe Paterno’s] fifth season as the
head football coach at Penn State, which would make this season be his 45th. Of course, since my trusty old solar-powered
Casio calculator died, I have had to do my mathematical cypherin’ on my
not-so-trusty, even older and non-solar-powered abacus. So, I might be off a decade or two.
Did
you happen to take note of the score of that Orange Bowl game? This is typical of the 400+ victories under
Paterno. For he has them playing
smash-mouth football, which is a very exciting style if you enjoy seeing the
teams trying to run over the other. For
the rest of us, it can be excruciatingly dull.
Despite
the area where the main campus of Penn State is located being called Happy
Valley, I would think that it would require being a rather dull person to
attend the school. For a great deal of
Pennsylvania is quite mountainous, which leads to pockets of isolation, and as
you can see from the map, State College, which is the middle of the map and
where the main campus of Penn State is located, is in a very isolated pocket.
If
you can’t see it, please take my word for it.
For I have been just north of State College on I-80 more times than I’d
like to remember, and it takes a while to get anywhere from there.
Put
it this way, it is a good three (and much more likely over four) hour drive to
Pittsburgh, even in a sports car with a lot of power and corners well. Yes, it is somewhat closer to Harrisburg, but
I haven’t heard much about it being the place to party—have you?
Even
the Penn State football uniforms reek of dullness. They claim that it is meant as an homage to
the past, but dark-blue jerseys and plain white helmets are just plain
dull. Perhaps in another twenty years or
so, they will add the Nittany Lion logo (as shown above) to one side of their
helmets like the Pittsburgh Steelers do, which is stupid (and not necessarily
better than dull).
As
referenced with Matthew 15:16, there is another meaning to dull, and this is
appearing to be more and more applicable to Joe Paterno and the administration
of the Penn State Athletic Department.
For it is being alleged that [Jerry Sandusky] engaged in a pattern of [sexual assaults] upon very young boys associated with [The Second Mile Charity] while
and after he was Paterno’s defensive coordinator, and the stuff is starting to
hit the proverbial fan about Paterno knowing about at least one incident that
happened in 2002 involving a 10 year-old boy being molested by Sandusky in a
shower room at the Penn State Athletic Complex.
Since
Paterno reported what he was told to the athletic director, he is not being
investigated for any legal wrongdoing, but since he clearly saw that nothing really
came of the molestation accusation, shouldn’t he have wanted to get to the
bottom of it on his own? After all,
Paterno is supposed to be a man of great integrity, and letting something like
that be swept under the proverbial rug would have had to have torn his guts
out—right?
Alas,
I must admit that I can naturally be just as hypocritical as you about some
things. Well, maybe not quite that bad,
but the point I am trying to get to is that I would have a very different perspective
about this if Sandusky had of been getting busy with some cheerleaders (really
good-looking female cheerleaders, just to be clear) over the years. In fact, he could have been taking some
incoming freshmen co-eds on an intimate tour of the dorm rooms, but I have to
draw the line on little boys and girls.
In
all fairness, Paterno may be able to honestly say that he really didn’t know
anything, which makes him about as dull as one can get in every sense of the
word. What do you think (or know)?
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