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JoePa
Passes The legendary Joe Paterno passed away at the age of 85, on Sunday. On a weekend that was filled with 3 of the top 4 teams in college basketball losing and a pair of great NFL conference championship games, the passing of Joe Paterno has dominated the headlines. There will be debates for years about the legacy the iconic coach leaves behind....depending on your point of view, he can be construed as one of the greatest coaches of all-time, or a guy that lost all credibility with his mishandling of the Jerry Sandusky incident. Personally, I think Paterno should go down as one of the great coaches, regardless of sport....but he did have his flaws. Unfortunately, in this world of "what have you done for me lately", along with the intense media scrutiny...Paterno left us while he had been under fire and criticism. When judging somebody's place in history or a person's legacy, I think it is imperative that you take a look at the big picture. If the snapshot of JoePa's run at Penn State was only the last couple of months or even since the alleged Sandusky incident in '02, then it would have a different feel and outcome. I think the incredible things that Paterno did in the past 62 years matter....and his good deeds and accomplishments far outweigh the dealings of the past few months/years. Paterno is not without flaw or mistakes....he was an iconic figure that made Penn State and the world a better place. JoePa's death also puts an end to an era where coaches spend countless decades in one location....they are few and far between, in this day and age. It doesn't mean that it can't happen again, but society is different and so is the media. We'll miss JoePa...but right now he's up in heaven diagramming a play from the one-yard line to finally score on Bama and the Bear. God Bless You, JoePa.....you will be missed. Congratulations go out to the New England Patriots and the New York Giants on their respective conference championship wins on Sunday. Both games were entertaining and filled with drama.....I loved watching the best in the world get after it in the tightest, high-pressure scenarios. Now that we have our two Super Bowl teams, we can get down to hyping up the event, and who better to do that than the cities of Boston and New York? They should be used to it, after all the non-stop babbling we hear about the Yankees and Red Sox....at least this time, one of them will actually win the title. We all know about the successes of quarterbacks Tom Brady and Eli Manning....and I suspect that we'll get a few mentions of that match-up in the next two weeks. I don't mind the hype, if the end product is great. If the 2012 Super Bowl is nearly as good as the 2008 version which included these two teams, then we will all be in for a treat. I wonder how Indy feels about little brother Eli rolling into town with the chance of going one-up on favorite-son, Peyton? There are tons of story lines, and I'll address those next week when we get closer to the game. But for Baltimore and San Francisco, it's gotta be brutally tough to get out of bed this week, knowing how close you were to making it to the big game. Both teams were capable and worthy of making it to the game and winning the title...
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