re: #183 aagcobb

“My name,” he told Jay, “I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it’s gone.”

He maybe should’ve thought of that when he was covering up child rape. That’s what the Paterno name means now.

To me, in some senses the most depressing thing is that even that piece of shit Sandusky didn’t force it to be this way. Nothing would have done more to build Paterno’s reputation in my mind than if he: found out about his national-championship-facilitating defensive coordinator molesting children, threw him out on his ass and into jail, and opened the gates and laid bare everything that had happened and what he would do to prevent it in the future.

Evil people, in some number, hide all around us. Nobody is infallible or omniscient. It’s what you do when you stumble upon that evil that really matters.