Penn State scandal, JoePa and the football/college town complex

Mrs. Pollitt's Pre-school and Kindergarten

 

But were you a starter?

 

Which is sickening.

 

In Freeze Tag and Capture The Flag, yes, because I was fast as hell.

Not in football, though.

 

How much were your NIL rights worth.

 

Nothing. We weren't even Div III, so we had no visibility. Plus, Lost Cause Mythology was starting to creep into interscholastic Capture The Flag in the South, so most sponsors were appropriately treating it like radioactive waste.

 

I get that extra attention isn't always a good thing, but I sometimes think HS and college ball don't get the ink they deserve. HS is literally the last level where family and friends converge on game day. The whole community should be involved.

 

"Who were you lookin' for?
What was the name?
You can probably find him at the football game.
It's a small town,
Y'know what I mean?
It's a small town, son,
And we all support the team."

(James McMurtry)

 

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boola boola, Boola Boo!

 

I didn't quite get that uobringing myself (there were five high schools in my hometown), but the 12K muni stadium waa SRO every Friday night, whether it was two city teams or one city team and one out of town.

 

I don't know how it is now, because I'm old and my time around my HS was a long time ago; but football was an insane deal at my HS, even in a decent-sized city with over 50 high schools. The annual regular season game with our biggest rival used to be billed as the highest-attendence regular season HS game in the U.S., averaging 35k. But despite being brought up in that, it still creeped me out a bit. When large numbers of people voluntarily group together and irrationally support something that doesn't really mean anything, it scares me, because the next thing you know, they're marching together and chanting about how some minority group has to go, or at least ignoring when one of their own covers for a child rapist.

 

I'm 60. Figured you weren't any older than that, sorry.

There's no reaaon it has to fo that far. I posted in thisbthread years ago that for all his other faults, I don't think Bear Bryant wouldnhave tolerated a pedo on his staff. The proximiry of colleges to large cities where this kund of thing happens...

 

I'm not (59). But since I'm a lot older than HS age, *and* don't live anywhere near my hometown, *and* all the friends I still have from that era have moved on too, I just don't know how the culture is anymore.

Probably. Or at least would have made sure that the cops were taking the situation seriously.

 

Lemme tell you about football/futbol/futebol/fussball/calcio then. Although I don't think thered be as much child rape since they're not in Central PA

 

You don't have to. Sometimes supporters disturb the ******** out of me too.

But, for all the disgusting and horrific shit football supporters have done, at least they don't support covering for a child rapist like PSU fans do.

 

Having said that Mason Greenwood didn't rape a child.And tbf,it is club management who have a far more reprehensible position.

 

I thought Greenwood was exonerated. Is that not true?

 

He pressured the vic to drop charges. There's audio of him,but I'm not putting it here.

 

I was a starter for the Penn State quiz bowl team, yes.

 

then you are a totally different person than you seem to be online.

 

I'm the same person online that I am in real life. I played for Penn State between 1999 and 2001. I was often the top scorer. We rose to #5 in the country at one point. I spent more time with Sandusky than Paterno. I defend people that I know in real life. Any further questions?

 

You don't "Play" on you Scholar's Bowl team, and you're not a "top scorer". It's not a position, like point guard. You're a member of your Scholar's Bowl team. and you answered the most questions. Quit trying to make "core" academics a sport

Oh, he ********ed you, too?

 

I always saw Sandusky in bookstores, after he was carried off the field after the 1999 Alamo Bowl. The indictments and convictions obviously changed my perception of the man.
I liked playing NAQT quiz bowl, though I'm long retired.