Penn State - The Fall Of The Paterno Empire - A Yankees Blog And More - Uncle Mike's Musings

Yesterday morning, immediately just before dawning on a Sunday, the bronze sculpture of Joe Paterno was stripped away from its pedestal outside the house Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania.

Note that this was any time regarding the full week when this sort of a good activity could well be least likely to be viewed by just a higher education student. And among the lowest most likely hard to be seen by way of a reporter that has a television camera. Or anybody which includes a training video recorder plus the suggests to show such a video.

Penn State : Moral cowards into the end.

It really should have already been accomplished at higher noon, but not cautiously performed having a crane. In that immortal words regarding Bruce Springsteen, "Bring with your wrecking ball."

This isn't just a new porcelain figurine of Joe Paterno coming down now, this can be Penn State sports forthcoming down with it, much like the walls at Penn State University came tumbling straight down in the exact same time. This is a end, the moment and for all, for any meant idea in which Penn State football, due to Paterno, appeared to be somehow much better as well as distinct along with more noble versus alternative bigtime programs in this country. NCAA president Mark Emmert stated about Monday morning, in announcing his or her serious sanctions contrary to the institution in addition to its sports program, until this weren't your passing penalty. But this was.

Paterno have been dead half a dozen months. Penn State football, almost everything them when recommended throughout school soccer and school sports, every little thing most of us considered the idea meant, officially died with Monday morning when Emmert walked to help the actual podium along with talked about some sort of $60 million excellent yearly regarding typical yucky revenue from your sports course and simply no bowl game titles pertaining to four decades along with the diminished eight scholarships with the subsequent three years and probation in addition to each of the remainder associated with it. Mike Lupica

I normally differ together with Lupica, the popular New York Daily News columnist that's coldly anti-Yankee, pro-Met and pro-Red Sox. This time period they've right.

It's hard to be able to identify precisely once the Joe Paterno story began. It's really not reasonable to state it was on September 17, 1966, the particular date regarding his very first game seeing that mind trainer at Pennsylvania State University, your 15-7 house enlighten your University of Maryland, looking at the screen associated with 40,911 devotees on the time, adequate selling Beaver Stadium out.