I wrote and read this on The Green Chimp Show today:
Dear Penn State Apologists and Sympathizers,
At some point you have to stop being a fan. You have to stop being blinded by the school’s colors or deafened by the team’s fight song. You have start looking at situations for what they truly are.
Some people have the audacity to decry the sanctions that the NCAA imposed on Penn State as unfair, extreme or biased. Some even dare to call the decision made by collegiate athletics’ governing body, knee jerk and media driven; when in fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
First off, the university hired its own investigator to get to the bottom of a scandal that rocked Penn State and agreed to accept any sanctions that were meted out by the NCAA. Secondly, because of certain rules and regulations set forth by certain government bodies, the media’s hands were tied when it came to properly describing the heinous acts carried out by convicted child rapist and former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. The media was forced to use words like oral sex, fondle, masturbate, molest, and sexual intercourse. So perhaps, many of you didn’t quite understand the severity or how heinous these acts were.
Well, I’m not governed by those same entities on this show and I feel like it’s my duty to describe in layman’s terms for those who possibly have the vocabulary of a brick, what Sandusky did, AND what the school’s president, vice president, athletics director and beloved and legendary head football coach turned their backs to for nearly 15 years.
Jerry Sandusky fucked little boys in the ass! He jerked and sucked their dicks. He lathered himself up with soap and rubbed his dick all over little boys’ bodies. He put his finger up little boys’ assholes. He groped little boys’ testicles. He forced his dick into little boys’ mouths. All the while, President, Graham Spanier, Senior Vice President, Gary Schultz, Athletics Director, Tim Curley, and Head Football Coach Joe Paterno, worked to cover it up in the name of protecting their beloved Nittany Lions football program.
You see, they were blinded by the school’s colors, they had allowed themselves to be deafened by the team’s fight song and they let this monster ruin life after life after life, year after year after year.
If you can’t see what’s wrong with that, and you still want to sympathize with Penn State, then I can’t help but to believe that you’re either apt to do the same things to little boys as Sandusky did, or you’re willing to cover them up like so many others did. Either way, you don’t deserve any sympathy when you’re caught up in something like this and neither do they.
What if this were your kid?
Signed,
Fuck your football team, I got kids motherfucker!
LOL! That's strong, D.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to argue that point and I agree that everyone involved should be punished. I don't think that includes the current coaching staff and players. Although they can go elsewhere, I just find it unfair for them to suffer at the hands of others.
If someone can convince me that they're responsible in this some how, then I'd agree with the penalties. But, as for the penalties that punish those who weren't even affiliated with the school during the time of the acts, I can't logically justify them suffering.
What about the kids who have to suffer with what happened to them for the rest of their lives? They covered it up to protect their football team, so what entity other than their football team should be punished? Without the football program, Sandusky isn't a part of the Penn State staff. If the NCAA can go back and punish Michigan and USC for things they found out after the fact for something as small in comparison as Bush's parents getting a house or Webber and others getting "loans", then certainly that's warranted here. No? I think so. If like were my child they would have had to demolish the whole damn stadium. Like I said, fuck that team. Those kids can transfer and move on. But those kids that Sandusky violated can't transfer lives.
ReplyDelete*if THIS were my child*
DeleteThe kids got justice. Sandusky is in jail for life and Penn State is paying out $60m. This is about public relations at this point for the NCAA and nothing else.
DeleteAs for Michigan and USC, they cheated in the field of play and broke well-established rules. Bush's family broke a known rule, so they suffered the consequences of that.
I'm all for punishing people until innocent people get caught up. If they said "after this freshman class graduates in 2016, we're shutting the program down for five years," then I wouldn't care because those kids that are there would have a chance to finish. But, to drop this on them at this point of the year seems unfair to them.
Again, the molested kids already have their justice legally and civilly.
Help me understand a couple of things. 1. How can you say that the victims got justice? Those kids, some of which are now young men, will have to live with that trauma for the rest of their lives. The psychological damage is irreversible. So no matter how much time Sandusky has, they will porbably never be able to fully get over that. The money that Penn State is paying isn't going directly to those victims, so where is the civil justice?
ReplyDelete2. How does this hurt the current players exactly? What, they can't play in a bowl game? They can't play on TV? Maybe the team they're on isn't as good as they had expected? Boo f**king Hoo! They can either choose to stay and play or transfer. If they're good enough to go to the next level, then that will happen whether at Penn State or somewhere else. Again, how are they being punished?
A strong message needed to be sent to Penn State and any other school that believes that football is larger than life and who have pledged to protect its program at all costs. I salute the NCAA for a job well done.
1. That's what happens. People do crimes and someone goes to jail. Rape victims, families of murder victims, etc. all have to unfortunately live with what happened to them, but once the perp goes to jail, that's justice. That's where it stops. It's been for centuries. You can't punish the perp's family (or future family) for something that the perp did. For what? To make a point? That's not justice. That's revenge. I'd feel better if people used that word instead of "justice."
ReplyDelete2. Why should they be forced to change schools because of someone else? That's like if someone came to my job and said I could never get a raise because my co-worker molested someone. I'm free to find a job elsewhere or deal with the consequences.
Is that really a "choice?"
And it's not like they have time to think about it either. Football season is about to start. You have an entirely new playbook to learn if you change schools. So, some kids may not go pro because of this. Yeah, the "RG3's" of the team will go elsewhere and exceed, but what about the people who were borderline for an NFL roster? F**k them, too? Should've gone to Pitt?
Everyone wants to put their kid in the place of the rape victims, but no one wants to put their kids in the place of the students who are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. What happened to those rape victims was the worst thing short of murder that can happen. But, the people responsible for it (Sandusky, jail; Joe Pa, fired; administration, fired) are gone.
You said all of that and still didn't tell me how those current players are being punished. They are STILL being allowed to play football! If they were stripped of their eligibilty then I would agree with you. As for marginal players, they would be marginal anywhere so they're not even really a part of the discussion. Truth be told their lucky to be playing anywhere. As far as the standouts, again they will still standout. So what, they can't get the best talent on their team for a few years because of lack of scholarships. Most parents wouldn't send their child there now anyway given their culture of cover up, I know I wouldn't. Maybe with a few years of less than stellar football teams, this school can get its priorities straight and realize that its bigger than football.
ReplyDeleteI told you how in #2. By being given a "choice" that really isn't a choice for most of them.
ReplyDeleteMarginal players absolutely count because you can't tell me that a borderline NFL draftee, who learned a playbook all summer, will be the exact the same caliber player after cramming in a new playbook in four weeks. Knowing routes/assignments will be the difference in him making a team if he's borderline. You can't discredit someone and say they don't matter because he's not a Heisman candidate. C'mon, man. He gets no respect because he's a walk-on? Really? As many shows as we both do on people not being treated as equals?
Leonard Little killed a lady and played in a Super Bowl less than 2 years later, if I recall. If it came out that Dick Vermeil tried to cover it up and they suspended today's Rams franchise for a season because of it, then I'd have a problem with that, too.
Do what you want to Little and Vermeil, I wouldn't care. Punish the people who did wrong and don't touch anyone else. How hard is that?
I thought that only happened in 1st grade when the teacher punishes the room because she doesn't know who did something. In case, we know who did it and still want to punish the room.
Anyway, we'll agree to disagree. I gotta get up early. I'll holla at you. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that I don't agree and I think it's revenge resulting in collateral damage instead of justice.
What you're saying amounts to an inconvenience not a punishment. If a marginal player can only excel because they know the playbook, then they won't make it to the NFL anyway. There are these things called trades, and sometimes they happen during the season. If a player's game completely drops off because they aren't familiar with the playbook, then they weren't that good to begin with. Only QBs have to know the playbook extensively to excel, he can direct other players who may not know. It happens all the time.
ReplyDeleteQ, did you really evoke Leonard Little into this conversation? LOL. I respectfully refuse to even attempt a comparison or contrast between these two incidents because I think you know you're reaching.
Whether you call it revenge or justice, this message needed to be sent and the NCAA sent it FedEx.
Inconvenience is having to take another route to work because of a car accident.
ReplyDeleteTrades happen to professionals. They get paid. College students do not. If marginal NFL player gets cut after not grasping a playbook, then at least he has pay checks to his credit.
And I absolutely disagree with you on only QB's needing to be serious about their playbook. Dez Bryant is a prime example of someone who doesn't know his playbook and it reflects on his game.
Leonard Little is a reach and he killed someone? With all respect to rape victims, death is a little more serious.
"Sending a message" isn't justice. It's what people do to look a certain way in the eye of the public. Mob bosses did that by taking out family members of their rivals.
You're basically admitting that this isn't about justice with that statement and I'm cool with that. Just say what it is. However, what it isn't, is justice.