So Joe Paterno, the kindly Saint JoePa who ran the Penn State football program for 45 years until just prior to his death in 2012, has another smoking gun resting at his doorstep. And as long as Penn State tries to recover money from lawsuits connected to former assistant Jerry Sandusky, JoePa will have more.
According to court records released today, one of Penn State’s insurers reports that a child came forward in 1976 claiming that Sandusky sexually abused him. Paterno by the time had been head coach for 10 years, and allegedly was told about the allegation.