Penn St's AD Tim Curley charge with perjury: sex abuse

[Ira Hayes]

Fry the Methodists!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/14/faithful-struggle-with-scandal-at-penn-state-where-football-is-religion.html

It was a common tradition among the football team’s faithful, followed, on Sunday, by yet another one. During a lively sermon at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, a pastor compared the practice to St. John the Divine’s arrival in heaven.

 
“Just last week,” the  Rev. Eric Shafer said, “my son Kyle and I were there for that thrilling win against Illinois. As Kyle and I were walking out of the stadium, I said, ‘That was just a football game, with 70,000 people. Can you imagine what heaven’s going to be like?’”

Over the top? Yes. Particularly since Sandusky, a former assistant coach at Penn State, and a member of that church, had already been arrested. But this is Penn State—a place where football is religion and religion is football.

[CatsNShocks]

Paterno's name taken off B16 Championship Trophy:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7233492/big-ten-removes-joe-paterno-name-championship-trophy

[LickNeckey]

fair and interesting read comparing Penn State and Catholic Church

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-devil-and-joe-paterno.html?_r=1&src=tp

[I_have_purplewood]

Paterno's name taken off B16 Championship Trophy:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7233492/big-ten-removes-joe-paterno-name-championship-trophy

[Rams]

Do you think it's the fact that he's catholic that is keeping him from killing himself? 

It's just a matter of time before he realizes what the rest of his life is going to be like and death is going to REALLY start looking attractive.  Be patient.

[CNS]

Do you think it's the fact that he's catholic that is keeping him from killing himself? 

It's just a matter of time before he realizes what the rest of his life is going to be like and death is going to REALLY start looking attractive.  Be patient.

When the victim silence dam breaks and more deets start coming out...

[8manpick]

This is a really good read.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7233704/the-brutal-truth-penn-state

It was midway through the pregame prayer session that the gorge hit high tide. There is always something a little nauseating in large spectacles of conspicuous public piety, but watching everyone on the field take a knee before the Penn State-Nebraska game, and listening to the commentary about how devoutly everybody was praying for the victims at Penn State, was enough to get me reaching for a bucket and a Bible all at once. It was as though the players and coaches had devised some sort of new training regimen to get past the awful reality of what had happened. Prayer as a new form of two-a-days. Jesus is my strength coach. Contrition in the context of a football game seemed almost obscene in its obvious vanity.

[Skipper44]

So, it appears there were some unusual traditions at Penn State

In addition to power and control dynamics among the staff and Paterno’s powerful presence in the community, a crazy tradition at Penn State was the coaches showered together after each practice and game. We never did this at Brown or at the University of Rhode Island, and my coaching friends never experienced this on their staffs.

Read more: http://www.centredaily.com/2011/11/12/2983611/steps-can-be-taken-toward-happiness.html#ixzz1diY8hXlA

[michigancat]

WTF

[WillieWatanabe]

sweet jesus.

[0.42]

just firebomb everything in between philly and pittsburgh.

[steve dave]

 

[kstater]

Do you think it's the fact that he's catholic that is keeping him from killing himself? 

It's just a matter of time before he realizes what the rest of his life is going to be like and death is going to REALLY start looking attractive.  Be patient.

When the victim silence dam breaks and more deets start coming out...

When he gets his teeth kicked in daily.

[EMAWgeddon]

Penn State update coming tonight, I swear.  Catching up on work.

[Gooch]

Penn State update coming tonight, I swear.  Catching up on work.

[AbeFroman]

Turns out the Judge who decided bail conditions was on the board of The Second Mile. The DA asked for $500K bail and a leg monitor, the Judge gave $100K unrestricted bail.

Seriously Pennsylvania.....

[SkinnyBenny]

So he's just walking free right now raping as many kids as he can before he goes to jail for good? 

[AbeFroman]

So he's just walking free right now raping as many kids as he can before he goes to jail for good? 

He was photographed by TMZ (strange), at LaGuardia airport this morning.

He could be at Roman Polanski's house right now for all we know.

[CNS]

So he's just walking free right now raping as many kids as he can before he goes to jail for good? 

He was photographed by TMZ (strange), at LaGuardia airport this morning.

He could be at Roman Polanski's house right now for all we know.

Wow   

Holy eff.

$100k is cheap get outa jail price for a guy who can afford to live abroad the rest of his days. 

[Dugout DickStone]

So he's just walking free right now raping as many kids as he can before he goes to jail for good? 

He was photographed by TMZ (strange), at LaGuardia airport this morning.

He could be at Roman Polanski's house right now for all we know.

Wow   

Holy eff.

$100k is cheap get outa jail price for a guy who can afford to live abroad the rest of his days. 

No monitoring either.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Turns out the Judge who decided bail conditions was on the board of The Second Mile. The DA asked for $500K bail and a leg monitor, the Judge gave $100K unrestricted bail.

Seriously Pennsylvania.....

He probably funneled one or two second mile kids to that judge in exchange for the light bail.

[CNS]

So is everyone in Penn a child molester? Honest Q.

[Rage Against the McKee]

So is everyone in Penn a child molester? Honest Q.

No, but anybody on the board of The Second Mile is highly suspicious, imho.

[CNS]

What is really disturbing to me is the whole booster thing.  I could easily believe that every school could have maybe one pedo as a big booster that could afford to pay large sums to the school AD in exchange for kids, but to have enough high-dollar boosters into this that it made sense for someone to start up a pedo pedaling service is crazy to me.  I mean, if it happened more than once to more than one booster, PSU has to have something wrong with their community, right.  Something that breeds an abnormal amt of pedos?

[Rage Against the McKee]

What is really disturbing to me is the whole booster thing.  I could easily believe that every school could have maybe one pedo as a big booster that could afford to pay large sums to the school AD in exchange for kids, but to have enough high-dollar boosters into this that it made sense for someone to start up a pedo pedaling service is crazy to me.  I mean, if it happened more than once to more than one booster, PSU has to have something wrong with their community, right.  Something that breeds an abnormal amt of pedos?

I thought that rumor was the the kids were being pimped to Second Mile boosters.  if kids were being pimped to PSU boosters.