There’s something inherently dangerous and misguided about worshipping a person who is still alive.
Those people still have time to make mistakes, or to cop to the ones they’ve already made. Or, in the case of Joe Paterno, to never admit to sweeping them under the rug for nearly half a century.
MORE: Joe Paterno through the years
On Thursday, pennlive.com reported that a court order for an insurance case connected to Jerry Sandusky’s serial sexual abuse of minors included this revelation: that “in 1976, a child allegedly reported to PSU's Head Coach Joseph Paterno that he (the child) was sexually molested by Sandusky.