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Penn State Cult (Joe Knew)

The latter part of course because everyone knows that there are no soup kitchens in Happy Valley because there is no homelessness, hunger or poverty in Happy Valley because Happy Valley is perfect

It's a shame that the BOT gave Joesus cancer and he allowed himself to die for their sins. He may have cured the world of all afflictions by now, while winning 4 national championships. (He'd have to let other teams win a couple here and there, since He's so awesome.)
 
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It's been discussed in the AAF thread. He looked pretty bad the first 2 games. The cult rationalized by saying his receivers couldn't catch and his o-line was terrible and he was just on a bad team. After a couple of interceptions in the first half of Game 3 (plus another that could have been intercepted) and no points, he was benched for Mettenberger, or something like that. New QB quickly led the team to a touchdown, and made it a game. I think the halftime score was 13-0 or 15-0, and the final was 21-17. It must have been 15-0, because I can't figure out how to get to 13 without 1-point conversions. Anyway, yeah - if Hackenberg gets any more playing time, it'll be because of injuries to other quarterback(s).

I didn't see any of it, but Memphis won their first game with Hackenberg sitting on the bench.
 
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Nope, not at all.

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Dingerzfordaze said:
At 44 years of age ... I wanted Paterno gone even before the epic 94 squad (and ef Kerry Collins' drunken arse for trying to pick up the girl I was seeing with the line "do you know who I am?" after she responded to his initial advances with "ew!" ... and then responded to his subsequent line with "a drunken' d!ckhead!" ... he's lucky I wasn't there to snap his throwing arm when he was having trouble learning "no means no," but I digress). But I wanted Paterno gone just for purposes of advancing the success of the program.

Even at that age, I was smart enough not to buy into stories of legends and heroes. If that lesson needed any further cementing, that was accomplished when I ran into a football buddy (who, literally, and without exaggeration, once asked me how to spell a basic monosyllabic word for a paper in his remedial English course, so he could be eligible next year, as a 22 year old sophomore - WTF? - AFTER prepping at a prestigious prep school ... I was an 18 year sophomore, at the time), and he and his football pals told me they were told they were guaranteed a passing grade in a ridiculous "Arts" class (watch movies, and opine on them) as long as they showed up for class, regardless of whether they passed any quizzes/exams.

I mean, I know the typical football player gets sent down the assembly line with a token degree (advertising, communications, physical therapy, or whatever they get when they're qualified to wrap a high schooler's strained groin), but to be that brazen about it at that basic a level was simply amazing to me, considering I was a varsity athlete, as well (I received very little assistance, but I was a University Scholar, so I didn't really care). And it let me know just how ingrained the culture was.

I'm not going to opine on the rest ... all I know is that the same 22 year old soph told me JoePa was a figurehead out in lala land even back then ... but I will say that I think I'm smart enough not to idolize anyone, or anything.

:lol:

https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threads/an-evening-at-joe-and-sues-home.235260/#post-4073908
 
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