Celebrity Death Thread

[Tony G]

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/1/21/2724071/joe-paternos-health-lunch-cancer-decline-respirator-penn-state-football

off respirator?

[Islair]

Lung cancer.....only a matter of time.

[WingsFan]

We are all on the clock, CBS reported his death prematurely though...not good.

CBSSports.com extends apology to Paterno family

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/16960572

[Tony G]

he's gone

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7489238/joe-paterno-ex-penn-state-nittany-lions-coach-dies-85-2-month-cancer-fight

[FVD]

R. I. P. JoePa.

[Tony G]

Now ESPN is blasting this on all their channels. It's not like the pope died.

[Dan V]

RIP Joe, the good you did outweighted the bad 1000 fold

[Tony G]

That's a tough claim to back up with the number of victims involved by his enabling

[CGVT]

61 years of doing good things overall in college football.

I think I'll cut him some slack.

R.I.P.

[Coop]

I'm sorry I can't say football is more important than what he allowed Sandusky to do.

[CGVT]

Either do I. Doing good in college football is more than winning games.

[ghandi]

Yeah I think his legacy is more what happened at the end than what he did throughout.....

[Tony G]

Doing good in college football is more than winning games.

I'm not saying it's fair but the victims put a face on that side of the argument. If "Doing good" gave us some people who could be pointed to it might balance it more

Of course that's just my opinion

[chemiclord]

Now ESPN is blasting this on all their channels. It's not like the pope died.

For ESPN, it kinda was. They've lost their bait.

With Paterno gone, they don't have a convenient distraction to keep attention away from Bernie Fine and how ESPN "empowered" his pedophilia in much the same way the network angrily accused Paterno of doing.

[Malto Marko]

Wow.

I know he was coaching from the booth but I figured that was because after getting his leg broken a few years ago he had decided he wasn't quick enough to get out of the way now days.

That sure was fast.

RIP Joe.

Too bad his career ended the way it did. Too bad he didn't use better judgment also. He must have been pretty confident it could all be kept on the QT. No matter, it just wasn't right and I believe in stark contrast of who he really was.