Penn State. The people who protected the child-molester were the problem, and I will continue to root for justice in that case, but I'd like to see Penn State hold it together long enough to beat nebraska. If it falls to **** after that, then fine. But there are a lot of innocent people in this too.
Agree also. It is normal and natural to want to support your school and your teams, to give your loyalty to your school and to always hope and think the best about them. Most of us here do the same for the Buffs.
The problem comes when you have have news like came out this week and your fans put your coach and your program ahead of the lives of the victims of this horrible crime. There are multiple layers to this disgusting situation. At the core you have Sandusky who was the one who actually did the damage to the children. You can't blame the fans, the students, and the other supporters for his actions, he is the one responsible.
The next layer is the system that protected him and enabled him to continue to violate children, including violate children on campus, years after they knew or should have known that he was doing it. Again can't blame the fans for this although you can question them allowing a system where a football program and coach became so powerful that they had the ability to do this without oversight or responsibility to anyone but themselves. This was after all supposed to be a university with an athletic program, not an athletic program with a university.
The next layer is the fans and supporter who in light of the news coming out willing placed their football coach and team ahead of the lives of the victims who continued to be victimized because of the culture they allowed. The idea of protesting and rioting in support of a coach who was implicit in this ongoing crime against children is enough to turn my stomach. Looking at the game today and seeing far more posters, sweatshirts, and other messages in support of Paterno than I see in support of the victims is thouroughly disgusting.
I would hope that if I ever get so out of line in my priorities that I would place my football team ahead of the lives of innocent children that someone would do whatever is neccessary to knock some sense into my head. To the Penn State fans who were legitimately not aware of what was going on, sickened by it, and supportive of the changes needed to try to correct it, my empathy for you. I hope that you are able to find a way to make this a positive learning experience in your lives and that you will be better for it. For those still trying to keep the enablers of abusers around so they can win football games, I hope your fan experience is ruined in every possible way as long as possible until you come to your senses.
