Jamie Reidy urges the Sandusky victims to tear down the Paterno statue themselves.
Somehow, the statue of disgraced and deceased Joe Paterno remains standing outside the Penn State football stadium. Apparently, there is disagreement among university administrators regarding what should be done with it. Some are preaching “patience.”
Yeah, because you wouldn’t want to rush into anything after 14-years of covering up rape.
I know how to solve this “dilemma.”
The victims should walk to the football stadium this afternoon carrying sledge hammers. Then, those abused boys-turned-men should swing away until that statue crumbles to the ground.
You think Penn State officials will have them arrested for vandalism? No. Fucking. Way.
Tear down that statue, fellas. America will cheer you on with every swing.
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I fully agree, though I happen to know you can fit any vehicle on that surface in case the hammers don’t work fast enough.
Oh…and you really ought to avoid pissing on it and/or dumping a bucket of dog poop on it.
If you DO need bail money, I think there are about 13,000,000 people who will contribute.
Rob – You make a good point about vehicles. The victims could just lasso it and pull it down ala Saddam’s statue in Baghdad.
Happy to say: I’m ready, willing and got-nothing to lose. I also have a high-power Ford Police Interceptor that will take that particular dictator-statue to meet gravity. I feel a flash mob invite…but I’m guessing (based upon many years of experience) that I’ll be alone on this.
Still though…getting arrested for taking-out JP? Freekin sahweeeeet!!!
Gathering dog pooh roit now!
Sounds like the response of a simple minded frustrated douchebag of a man, which makes sense it would come from Jamie if you have read his books?
Thanks for reading my books, Lou!
Jamie, isn’t it always nice to meet a fan?
From this picture, it looks as if Paterno is running away from the victims in full gear, shouting lousy excuses to them over his shoulder.
So what is the lesson learned here? I hear a lot of talk, but not once have I heard what this is really all about. Anyone think they have it?
That statue isn’t robust. Nail the leg with a vehicle and it will snap off or break and any internal armature will bend. No one will restore the statue.
The victims should be busy suing Penn State.
I think tearing down the statue is what’s best for all of the victims and even the school. It could be a way to symbolize a fresh start and becoming stronger as a university. It would certainly help rebuild their credibility nationwide.
Maybe they don’t care about the fucking statue. Maybe they just want to get on with their lives.
The statue isn’t the problem. The problem is what erected it and what it represents – the excessive fetishization of sports, to the point that protecting the brand/team (and its revenue) took precedence over protecting children from a monster.
Firing Joe Paterno won’t solve that problem. Shutting down the entire Penn State football program permanently won’t solve that problem; it’ll just happen again in another football school, if it isn’t happening right now. The solution is to end college sports, all of them. We’re the only civilized nation whose public universities function primarily as sports clubs, with education a distant second, and we certainly piss away far money money on them that anyone else. As long as those warped priorities remain in place, the ingredients for a repeat of this scandal remain as potent as ever. Every few months, like clockwork, there’s a new scandal. How long will it take before people finally realize that it’s not “bad actors”, it’s a toxic environment that will turn anyone bad.
Of course, this entirely skips over the broader social obsession with grown men whose sole accomplishment is playing children’s games. That the people working to cure cancer have to fight tooth and nail over every scrap of funding just to keep the lights on while we pay people billions for contributing absolutely nothing to society says horrible things about our priorities as a society.
“The solution is to end college sports, all of them…”
MCA: You hit the nail on the head. The following is a 27 year old quote by Howard Cosell from his book I never played the game.
“I am writing this book because I am convinced that sports are out of whack in the American society; that the emphasis placed upon sports distorts the real values of life and often produces mass behavior patterns that are downright frightening; and that the frequently touted uplifting benefits of sports have become a murky blur in the morass of hypocrisy and contradiction that I call the Sports Syndrome.”
I think there would be well over 100,000,000 willing to pay the bail money.