To be quite honest with you, I can fit on the head of a pin, what I honestly know about and really care about the sport of Football. However, this story does stand out:
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The Story:
State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Joe Paterno, whose tenure as the most successful coach in major college football history ended abruptly in November amid allegations that he failed to respond forcefully enough to a sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant, died Sunday, a family spokesman said. He was 85.
The longtime Penn State head coach was diagnosed with what his family had called a treatable form of lung cancer shortly after the university’s Board of Trustees voted to fire him.
He had been hospitalized in December after breaking his pelvis in a fall at his home and again in January for what his son called minor complications from his cancer treatments.
“It is with great sadness that we announce that Joe Paterno passed away earlier today,” the family statement said. “His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled.”
via Legendary Penn State coach Paterno dead at 85 – CNN.com.
Like I said above, I not much of a football fan; but from what I see here and from what I read this man was a excellent football coach, who had a great career, that came to abrupt end. All because his assistant coach was some sort of sex pervert; and the old guy did not know what to do and so, he deferred the problem to someone else. I would guess that was something that he did highly regret.
Now, the man is not suffering anymore; he is with the angels in Heaven and standing before the almighty creator of this World we live in. For his sake, I hope he did truly know Christ and I hope that, for his sake, the Lord God of Heaven and Earth as as merciful to him, as he was me on June 7, 1982 — when I made the decision to accept Christ as my personal Saviour and Lord. I won’t get into the alternative to that decision, as we all know about that.
May the old gentleman rest in peace, because as anyone that has followed this story knows, this old-timer earned it.