Does Joe Paterno’s Statue Need to Be Removed?

As a reminder of the shameful way he looked the other way. Maybe add an asterix to the plaque similar to what they did to Barry Bonds' baseball from his 756th home run.

13.4 million dollar pension....right....and then the colleges raise rates. the whole system is truly disgusting.

The evidence indicates Paterno helped cover up child sex abuse. Why honor him?

Not until all the statues of anyone related to the catholic church are removed. If you're going to remove statues of paedophiles, you should start with the statues of the largest group of paedophiles we know of.

But Joe Paterno is NOT a child rapist.

Just as damn guilty!!!!!!!

Seriously? Are you high?

Yes, high on protecting children from rapists, pedophiles, and people who turn their back on helpless children and allow child molesters do their thing! Joe is just as guilty and anyone who can forgive him is also just as pathetic!!!!!

So the guy that reported second hand knowledge of a homosexual rape of a kid is on the same level as the guy that was actually sticking his weiner into the kid?

If I live to be a thousand years old I will not get that logic.

Here's some more logic you probably won't be able to understand. If someone see's a murderer kill someone and doesn't report it and the killer goes one to kill again, that person, according to your inability to grasp logic, is not responsible? If you answer yes, you have no understanding of right from wrong!

And the wiener comment tells me you didn't graduated high school!!

No, that person would have a duty to do something about it.

Too bad the Penn State situation was not like that regarding Joe Paterno because, if it was, then I would not be standing up for the man.

I graduated from high school and did some college too. So blow me if you don't like how I talk.

Blow you?, mark the spot because you are all prick.

LOL.....I admit, that was funny!

A rave to you my dear friend!

Glad to see you have a sense of humor.

I have a hell of a sense of humor.

does that include the Anglican/Lutheran, Baptist, Calvinist, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthdo,, and Coptic churches as well?

Might as well.

whoa why made you so bitter?

Amen!!

Take it down or add a plaque that tells his whole story not just how great he was.

Absolutely its a reminder of what he stood for, football at all cost, even the sick stuff that the coach was doing to those young boys.

And it should be raped.

Good God, I thought that would have been already taken down. Hurry it up, people.

I partly agree.

Remove it to a different location. Honor the accomplishment of JoePa in building the program and the area. BUT, relocate the physical reminder to a less obvious place.

It is somewhat disrespectful to the victims and their families who attend events to see the statue and have to KNOW that he could have stopped all of the abuse 14 years earlier. BUT, we also should not extinguish all the good JoePa did.

So relocate the statue is a better option.

Wow, maybe the most impressive answer. Joe Paterno and Penn State Football are practically my entire life. I cannot believe he was that selfish, but it appears so.

I do not think he could have stopped any of this, but the fact that they ask him and he requested it be hush, hush is his biggest crime of all. He did the absolute right thing with every athlete he coached, just not all the right things with all aspect of life....incredible.

the one time paterno was needed to do the right thing,,
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and he went with the child rapist ..

wow, what a time to screw up ....

hmmmm, I don't know about that. There were many, many, many times he did the right thing. Try to find one player that regretted playing for him.

He did not do the right thing here, and if he did, he would have been seen in even higher regard than he already was before this all came out.

I agree with you ,, paterno was , before this child rape thing, held in the highest regards here in western Pa. , paterno / Penn State was squeeky clean .. paterno was THE MAN , and all others were a distant second place..
the press loved paterno, the students loved paterno, Penn State loved paterno, the football players loved paterno , the community loved paterno , even Pitt supporters that hate Penn State had respect for paterno..

the ONE time , when he was needed to make the decission that had to be made , he whimped out, he turned his back, he forgo his responsibility to the University , to those young boys, to every one,,

he allowed , with the knowledge of past , present and possible future , young boys to be raped .

there are very few times to very few people that we are called upon to do some thing that may harm our selves, our loved ones or in this case the University , and paterno loved the University ..

paterno screwed up, and for that action / inaction , he will be known as ...

that is the paterno legacy ... and it saddens me to see it unfold ,,,,

Thank you.

relocate ??

to where , the shower where the kids were raped ?

I don't know. But, he is still a highly regarded man, who DID build the entire city UP with his football program, that shouldn't be taken away completely. So, honor him by leaving it up, somewhere, but don't leave it in the position of high honor where it currently is.


Kennedy was allowed to serve as the "honorable" senator for decades AFTER he murdered Mary Jo. So, this nation RARELY takes the lifetime of accomplishment away from a man for exceedingly poor judgement on a subject he probably did NOT have a concept of. MOST men and women cannot even IMAGINE those types of crimes, and given paternos age when he was told about it, PROBABLY his brain could not fully accept the magnitude of the information, or the acts themselves.

So, I would say move it to a more private location on campus where students can visit, and his accomplishments CAN be honored, but REmove it from the place of honor.

These are just MY thoughts on it.

kennedy is scum ... he killed that girl ... kennedy is with out honor..

paterno was a much younger man when this all went down, when this shower rape happened,, paterno knew about this child rapist for 15 years,, paterno was in his 60's when it first came out that his defense cordinator was a homo child rapist...
right or wrong, it matters to me, I have no mercy for paterno, he should be buried face down , to hide his shame...

It was 14 years ago that he was made aware of it.

And he was OLD, OLD then. You are welcome to hate him til you die. I just chose not, since he did so much good, and he did not personally molest a child.

I am a rape survivor, and find that I tend towards more lenience to those who did not DIRECTLY commit an act, largely because that type of thing is still so shocking.

I do not hate paterno, I pity his sad soul ,

paterno was all everything here in W. Pa. , paterno / penn state was what was right in the world,, or so I thought ,,

no, I do not hate paterno, I have disgust for his actions hiding the child rapes , but , no hate from me .. pity to paterno, disappointment , no hate..

and paterno's age ( aprox late 60's when he found out ) has little / nothing to do with any thing..

I neither glorify or hate him, he is just a man, a man that failed his fellow man..

Any person who abets a pedophile (sic) in any way should not have a stutue honoring him/her. Move the statue to the pedophile prison, if there is such a thing.

Or to JoePas old residence. Either way-move it to a different location.

San Francisco ?
Providence ?
Rheoboth Beach ?

There is in Florida..I think it's the Jerry Rice Center for those deliteful "people"..good place for it!

I've never heard of that place, and we live in Florida.

Arcadia..by Desoto C.I.