The Happy Valley Football Altar
by Robert Ringer on Monday, November 14, 2011The Penn State scandal is so disturbing that it’s hard to even write about it. When I first heard Joe Paterno had been fired, I thought perhaps it was an overreaction on the part of Penn State’s board of trustees. But as I read about some of the gory details of the case, I quickly realized I was wrong. As it turns out, Joe Paterno is a split legal hair away from being guilty of covering up a heinous crime spree that staggers the moral imagination of the average American.
As we all know by now, in 2002, assistant football coach Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant at Penn State, allegedly saw defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sodomizing a ten-year-old boy in the locker-room shower. To his credit, he immediately reported the incident to Coach Paterno.
