Paterno....

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I love everything about the Saturday game,the teams,their nics,the rivalries,the fact that they play each other only once during the Season,the stadia, (I travel,as a booster, to the Canes away games and have sat in,Ann Arbour,Knoxville,Happy Valley,Chestnut Hill, etc.) I love,the bands,the mascots,the cheerleaders,the dance team...(as a connesciour,I do differenciate)...and the Coaches...which brings me to:Joe Paterno...Jesuit Joe Paterno...a great left handed quarterback,educated by the followers of Loyola at Brooklyn Prep...after Prep...off to Brown,up in LTN's neck of the woods,a school named after a colour....very minimalist...he popped up after that,at least on my rader screen,when he shows up at Penn State to work under Rip Engle...PSU....literally in the middle of nowhere..is off the map football wise....stadium seats,at the time a tad under 50,000..Engle out...Paterno in....when last I plopped my fanny down in the stadium he pretty much built...around 109,000...he's a tenured professor (LTN's shoulders rock side to side,approvingly)..a world class fundraiser,a pal of presidents,his own money in donations,helping to build the library and,maybe most of important of all,he's an educator...you send your kid to Paterno...the little nipper will get a degree a real degree from a great school...so Joe Paterno,born of the streets of Brooklyn,a great coach,a great man..............................a life well lived...