As Paterno continued to coach through repeated health struggles, it became strange not to joke about his perplexing ability to hang on. It was in that spirit that my fellow alumni and I howled at an August 2011 Onion article titled ?Penn State Players All Worried They?re Going To Be the One Who Accidentally Kills Joe Paterno.?
At the time, none of us could have imagined the way Paterno would go: in the shadow of the stomach-turning Jerry Sandusky scandal, his legacy tainted by a deeply contentious discussion over the difference between moral and legal obligation and who exactly ?the police? were at Penn State. Now, many will try to sum up his death with stats: wins, losses, bowl games, players in the NFL, players who got arrested, the mistakes he made. Paterno was an old man, and deaths of the elderly and ill often feel peaceful and logical. But his death was anything but. It seems unfair to me, even as a Paterno critic, that he was unable to live to see the outcomes of the many investigations into Penn State?s handling of the Sandusky scandal. He will not be vindicated, nor will he be able to redeem himself. One of our last memories of him will be from the night that students gathered at his modest State College, Pa., home on the night of his firing. Paterno led the crowd on his front lawn in a Penn State chant?something the students found cathartic, but a moment that many, both within and outside the school community, saw as inappropriate and perhaps a bit flip.
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