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I'm just waiting for the beginning of the game. As soon as ND and PSU players run onto the field for the start of the game I know we'll be hearing JoePA screaming about "those damn kids" who won't "stay off my lawn" and the like in between rambling stories about the time he coached Rockne and how they used to get their drink on after games. |
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Paterno was later quoted to say "We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don’t go anywhere -- like the time I caught the ferry over to South Bend. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called South Bend in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you’d say." |
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Paterno's hatred for technology comes out: |
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As far as 400-year-old coaches go, he's definitely at the top of the list. Way ahead of Bowden, who has basically given total control to his coordinators since roughly the days of Charlie Ward. |
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What a Joke-Pa... |
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Jay, you forgot to credit the skilled translator who rendered Paterno's quotes into English from Zombie. |
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I'm not going to knock a guy who helped institute the center snap and the forward pass. Thanks Joe! |
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Notre riffic, |
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Thanks Sean. (It was a joke.) |
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Matt, but the important thing was that he had an onion tied to his belt, which was the style at the time |
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Zombie is not technically correct Phil. Its the unholy, undead phenonmenon known popularly as a "Mummy." When JoePa (notice the alliteration with the name of the Egytian Sun God "Rah") was actually mummified remains a matter of debate. Some say as early as the 30s or 40s and that he may have made appearance in various Mummy movies of the time, such as the Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy films of the genre. All that is certain is that JoePa is indeed several thousand years old, that the PSU Elders embalmed his corpse long ago and that he rose to haunt the college football world sometime early in the last century. |
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Well done, Thundershaker, well done. |
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I defer to the clear expert on this matter. |
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I don't get the feeling he would pull a gun out, he would probably resort to a medieval weapon like a longbow or something more natural to his time. |
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Paterno remembers the good old days, "You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J. D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub and? hey! Where are you going? |
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Hope these comments aren't posted in the PSU locker room before the ND game in Sep. Thanks a lot guys. |
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I knew when I saw 14 comments that I was way too late to the "Abe Simpson Joke" buffet. Not that it would have mattered, because y'all did better than I would have. Well done, everyone. |
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Even if this stuff was posted in the PSU lockerroom, who cares? It's not like we're dissing their team, or really even their head coach. I think JoePA is a badass, as most would agree. It's just that he's A)and easy target and B) really, really, really, really old. I think even PSU players would have to chuckle at this shit. |
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I don't believe JoePa is strong enough to draw a longbow. He'd probably whack you with one of these: |
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why not add a little culture to your gameday weekend? |
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