Too Much Nittany Lyin’
Rick Morrissey is a sports’ columnist for the Chicago Sun Times. Yesterday he penned one of the most powerful responses yet to the horrible child-sex scandal at Penn State.
You don’t have to be a football fan to appreciate Morrissey’s insights. All you have to be is someone who cares deeply for children and someone who believes in justice.
I’m providing the first few paragraphs to encourage you to click the link and read the rest of Morrissey’s scathing rebuke at Too Much Nittany Lyin’.
A football game should not have been played Saturday.
A football game in the midst of a tragic child-sex scandal was a further defilement, a cruel reminder that football is king, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how many young lives have been ruined.
I have read and heard comments that Penn State’s game against Nebraska in State College, Pa., was a part of the healing process.
For whom?
For the very program that apparently looked away when former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky allegedly was violating little boys?
For all those misguided students who rioted after the school fired Joe Paterno, the beloved coach who didn’t do enough to prevent further atrocities, even though he is one of the most powerful people in Pennsylvania?
Sorry, no.
Thanks for sharing this. It hadn’t popped into the ESPN feed that’d cycled around here yesterday. Insightful stuff.
Quite amazing the level of cowardice on the part of the grad assistant…..and then the level of arrogance that led to the cover-up.
Amazing that coaches and staff were more interested in CYA than the plight of the 10 year old boy.
There is no explaining the behaviour of the deviant monster who committed these heinous acts…and they wouldn’t have had to explain had they done the right thing and notified the police. Now….they have a whole lot of explaining to do….and NONE of it holds any water.