Delusional

It's sad to see people destroy their own reputations by defending the indefensible out of a misplaced loyalty to the image of a coach that they had in their minds for decades, an image which has turned out to be false.

Franco Harris is becoming one of those people:

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/steelers/for-franco-harris-search-for-penn-state-truth-continues-644596/?p=0

Harris says he has only caught pieces of information about the Freeh Report. But without full knowledge of the report, he is already asserting, "I don't think it's complete yet," "I'm definitely not making a decision based on the Freeh Report," and "The Freeh Report doesn't do it for me." In effect, he is dismissing the report before he has learned what it contains! This is the thinking of a delusional person who wants to hold onto his delusions.

Harris claims that because one piece of information from the report was leaked ahead of time, "They lost me as far as the integrity of it." Never mind that the leak turned out to be accurate. Never mind all the other information in the report. For Harris, the fact that one thing was leaked is enough to discredit the entire report. This is the thinking of a delusional person.

Jerry Sandusky was a child molester. Paterno and Spanier and Schultz and Curley covered it up, aiding and abetting his crimes. The delusional defenders of Paterno are apologists for the aiding and abetting of child molestation. And the online commenters who say otherwise are apologists for the apologists for the aiding and abetting of child molestation.

It's sad to see this. People are destroying their own reputations by the day. It's time to speak out against Paterno. It's time to speak out against those who don't speak out against Paterno -- Franco Harris, Joe Posnanski, Bill James, to name a few.

Here's an example of a person who's doing the right thing: LaVar Arrington. He has realized the truth. About Joe Paterno, he now says, "I didn't know the person I thought I did":

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/lavar-arrington-joe-paterno-didn-t-know-person-014135658--ncaaf.html

More people should follow LaVar Arrington's example.