CFJ wears wig in support of Sutherland on team flight home! Cool stuff!!
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I still don't see why they let one guy trigger them. It's like they are looking for an excuse to be offended. I would say 99% of fans realize that crew cuts and skinny ties are not part of today's culture. Letting some tool trigger you just seems weak to me.
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Exactly and we know Joe wasn't fond of certain hair styles and actions back in the day. I think sending the letter was stupid. That fellow can't grasp things were looked at differently then . And to kids these days, yeah certain actions now weren't considered okay by everyone back then , including penn state coaches .
They could also use it as something to rally around. Sort of an “Us Against the World” mentality.
Can't you see how oppressed PSU Football players are? Just last month, they had sirloin instead of NY Strips on the training table one night.
It’s akin to the “news” articles today that cite like two anonymous tweets as evidence of something. People need to realize that there are many people out there and some people are going to have different opinions, or even, as in this case, ignorant views. Doesn’t mean it’s indicative of broader sentiment.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and speculate you resemble D Petersen more than J Sutherland...
Speculate away. With no information you have 359 degrees of inaccuracy at your disposal.
So if someone who looks more like Jonathan Sutherland tells you to not make a big deal out of it, you won't? I doubt that...
You said put all of your money on Iowa this weekend. I pray you literally did that.
Franklin is smart and I think he just used this to bring the team a little closer together. JMO
Because today everybody is offended by everything and its almost like you have to be publicly offended. I would not be surprised if out of the public eye that the team had a lot of fun poking fun at Dave. Other than Shelton sharing the letter on twitter, the media seemed to make a bigger deal out of it than the players, almost forcing everybody to respond.
Perhaps, because they realize that there’s thousands more thinking the same thing as Dave and they want to send a message. I doubt Jonathan gives two sheets what Dave thinks
The guy who sent the letter - what a moron.
What kind of loser is sitting at home noticing dreadlocks, getting mad about them, and then actually taking the time to write a letter - to a 20- or 21-year old?
What kind of loser is sitting at home noticing dreadlocks, getting mad about them, and then actually taking the time to write a letter - to a 20- or 21-year old?
If it helps bond this group together even tighter, then go for it. It doesn't impact us fans in any way, so why are we still talking about it? I think it's cool that our coach is in touch with our players and goes all in to support them like this.
Damn straight. He let’s this slight at his players slide and they may start to think that he doesn’t have their backs or supports them, leading to potential team issues. Instead Franklin embraces it and rallies the troops so to speak, defends the players supports the team and walks the walk in terms of his family message and mentality.
And this is just my own speculation but maybe he’s enjoying throwing a bit of shade at the JoePa worshipers who have given him flack since taking over as head coach.
It's not about him being calculating, though. It's about having fun. Why not have fun?
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19 posts since the video and nobody mentioned CJF giving the finger (or the UK version anyway.). Guessing he wasn’t going at any true PSU fans and would 100% understand any of us preferring Joe while still supporting the team and appreciating the job he’s doing.
What? The UK version of the finger? Is this sarcasm? Pretty sure it was just a “V” for victory and not some UK hand gesture that nobody outside of the UK knows anything about.
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V For victory?
ok. I’ll buy that. I figured every music artist of the past 20 years has just been giving the less-traveled of us the finger. Still not entirely sure I’m wrong. But let’s go with victory.
Personally think it would be wise for PSU to put this issue to rest going forward. I have no problem at all with any actions by the players or staff. But I am realistic enough to know this will be, at best, a neutral on the recuiting trail and at worst a negative. Why a negative? Because OSU, Pitt and MSU are going to go into the homes of young African-Americans and show them the type of people in the PSU fanbase. The stereotype will be especially effective with kids who are not from PA and view its citizens as a group of backward people who cling to their guns and Bibles and, why would you want to play for a school whose fans are going to send you hate mail? Now, turn it around and say recruits will see how James Franklin has the backs of his guys and supports the players. That's great, except for the ESPN headline "Penn State takes shirts from players supporting teammate". So we lose on that argument as well.
In the overall scheme of things this is not a big deal but I would not want it to continue to be in the public domain if l were PSU and Coach Franklin.
In the overall scheme of things this is not a big deal but I would not want it to continue to be in the public domain if l were PSU and Coach Franklin.
What rock do live under skinny ties are the hipster thing. They are huge in a certain slice of life
The weirdest part is that this guy even notices the dreadlocks in the first place and remembers who had them. I have to admit that I had no idea who Sutherland was before this episode
And I think he may also have been trying to lighten things up a bit. Either way it was funny.
V For victory?
ok. I’ll buy that. I figured every music artist of the past 20 years has just been giving the less-traveled of us the finger. Still not entirely sure I’m wrong. But let’s go with victory.
Given the context, you may be right. I never heard of it before, but a google search just now educated me and it’s more prevalent than I would have imagined. If that was his intent then good for him! James is way too image conscious to give the middle finger, but I wouldn’t put it past him to flash a sign obscure to most Americans, but one that his players knew what it means. Especially since he can use plausible deniability if called out for it.
CJF has great instincts about how to relate to college kids. That is one reason he is a great recruiter. Just compare CJF to the dour humorless Narduzzi at pitt. Narduzzi is a arrogant pri-k with no idea how to relate to college aged kids. That is one reason why he gets mostly MAC level recruits.
And it doesn't matter. there is no way Joe would allow hair like that. He wouldn't allow that chain stuff. We all know it. We know the story about the 87 Fiesta Bowl too.
I know fans who prefer those ways, and I get that. I also get some things have changed and myself personally I don't care if a kid wears his hair some stupid way or does that chain thing. It doesn't bother me, even if I don't agree with a style or certain actions. I will say it's stupid to publicly complain about it though.
And the worst thing is to make it a racist issue. https://www.blackshoediaries.com/2010/9/9/1677482/greatest-penn-state-upsets-of-all
When the Miami players arrived in Tempe they shocked everyone by getting off the plane dressed in combat fatigues. When asked about it, team leader Jerome Brown said, "This is war." Head coach Jimmy Johnson told the Phoenix Gazette, "That was a great idea. I wish I had thought of it."
Once on the ground in Tempe, the Miami players quickly became disgusted with what they saw. Penn State fans were everywhere. Not only that, but it seemed like the locals were even pulling for the Nittany Lions. Not surprising considering it was Penn State's fourth appearance in the Fiesta Bowl. Penn State fans were regulars in Tempe and had made quite a favorable impression on the locals. On the flip side, Miami was a small private school without a large alumni following. Most of their fans lived in the low income inner city and didn't have the money to travel across the country to Arizona to see their team play. So there weren't many Miami fans to cheer them on.
All week long the Miami players hated everything about being in Arizona. They hated dealing with stupid questions from the press about their attitudes. They hated Jimmy Johnson's regimented practice schedule sarcastically calling their coach "the Grinch that stole Christmas." They hated being compared to the Penn State choir boys. In one interview Brown said,
"I know a couple guys on (Penn State) are as crazy as I am. It's just a big front, that Penn State is clean cut. When it's time to get down, they get in the dirt. They hit late, we hit late. Of course, we may hit a little later."
Everything came to a head at the joint team dinner the night before the game. For entertainment, the players were allowed to spend the day walking around an Old Western Theme park. Then they were treated to an old west steak fry for their pregame meal. For Hurricane players that grew up in the poorest projects of south Florida, it couldn't be more corny, and by corny, I mean white.
As part of the entertainment for the evening, the teams were asked to come up with little skits to amuse the crowd. The Penn State players, dressed in coats and ties, went first and proceeded to make fun of Jimmy Johnson's hair and the boorish behavior of the Miami players over the past few days. Then Penn State punter John Bruno insulted the Miami players when he made a self deprecating racial joke.
Bruno said Penn State was a family "because the white players let the black players eat at the training table once a week."
When it was Miami's turn to take the stage, Brown ripped off his jumpsuit (the choice of attire for the Miami players that night) exposing his combat fatigues underneath. He grabbed the microphone famously saying,
"Did the Japanese have dinner at Pearl Harbor before they bombed them? Let's go."
And with that, the Miami players stood up and took off their jump suits exposing their fatigues. Then they walked out of the room to the team bus. As the assembled crowd sat in stunned silence, Bruno reached for a microphone and asked, "Excuse me, but didn't the Japanese lose the war?"
Bruno had dropped a bomb of his own that brought down the house. The incident made the national news (the fatigues...but not the racial joke), and from that point on nobody was talking about a football game any more. This was a battle between David and Goliath. It was a competition between class and crass. It was a fight between good and evil. Everyone in America was firmly cheering for Penn State.
By the time the game finally arrived, both teams had had about enough of each other. Joe Paterno gave his players strict orders not to talk back to the Miami players, provoke them, or respond to their verbal or physical assaults in any way. The Miami players, on the other hand, did everything they could to taunt their opponent and get in their heads. During pregame the Hurricanes jogged through Penn State's warmup formations and tried to engage them in verbal confrontations, but the Penn State players listened to their coach and wouldn't have any of it.
When the game started, Miami got off to a fast start. They sacked quarterback John Shaffer driving the Penn State offense backwards. The Hurricanes whooped and danced and the rout was on. Or so they thought.
On Miami's second possession, Irvin went to catch a ball over the middle and Penn State safety Ray Isom leveled him with a vicious hit knocking him silly and forcing him to fumble the ball. Later in the game Isom leveled Brian Blades on a similar play. In What It Means To Be A Nittany Lion, Isom described the hit.
Brian Blades had a brother, Bennie, who was a safety. He was a hard hitter and a talker. When we were on the field, Miami's defense was on the sideline talking. Brian ran the same post pattern that Michael Irvin had run earlier and fumbled after I hit him. The ball was thrown a little high and I didn't go for the ball.
I remember looking to the sideline and telling his brother, "You better come get him, he ain't gettin' up!" Brian rolled over and ran straight to the sideline. I said, "Now you put a Pamper on him and send him back out here." That was the hardest hit I had in that game.
Throughout the rest of the game the Miami wide receivers had short arms when they went over the middle. They dropped seven passes that were perfectly thrown from Testaverde. For all of their efforts to get inside the heads of the Penn State players, it was the Miami Hurricane who psyched themselves out. As Shane Conlan said after the game, "Our little, slow guys back there just rocked 'em, and soon they didn't want to catch the ball. Later on, we were helping their receivers up after we hit them and patting them on their butts. Receivers hate that."
Throughout the game Penn State stymied Testaverde with a defensive plan that was masterly crafted by PSU defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. For most of the evening State dropped eight men back into coverage. Everywhere Testaverde looked he saw a linebacker. Stubbornly, Miami refused to run the ball into Penn State's pass oriented defense. It was almost as if they didn't just want to win the game. They wanted to blow out Penn State just to prove their superiority. It was a foolish act as the Penn State defense forced five interceptions from the Heisman trophy winner.
Miami took a 7-0 lead in the early part of the second quarter after recovering a fumble at the Penn State 23-yard line. Penn State responded immediately with their only sustained drive of the night going 74 yards on 13 plays. Shaffer scored the touchdown when he dived into the endzone on a four yard quarterback bootleg. The first half ended in a 7-7 tie.
The defenses dominated the third quarter and both teams were scoreless. All American Penn State linebacker Shane Conlan had injured his knee badly in the first half and twisted his ankle after intermission. He intercepted a pass in the third quarter and only managed a few steps before his knee gave out and he fell down. He was furious with himself for letting the pain win. He would later have a chance for a rematch.
Miami took over at midfield early in the fourth quarter and moved down the field on a 20-yard run by Highsmith. The drive set up a field goal that gave Miami a 10-7 lead with just under 12 minutes to go in the game. The Penn State offense failed to move on their ensuing possession, and the Hurricanes were beginning to sense the national championship within their grasp as their confidence was visibly starting to grow.
But the Penn State defense wasn't ready to give up just yet. With just under nine minutes to go, Conlan stepped in front of a Testaverde pass and snagged another interception. Once again he fought through the pain of his throbbing knee and ankle, but this time the pain lost. Conlan ran 40 yards down to the Miami 5-yard line where he was brought down. Two plays later D.J. Dozier barrelled over the middle for a six-yard touchdown, and then he took a knee in prayer. Penn State had taken the 14-10 lead, but there were still eight minutes left on the clock. All across America Penn State fans were saying a prayer of their own.
Miami fumbled away the ball on the kickoff, but Penn State was unable to do anything with it and had to punt the ball away. The two teams then traded another round of punts with Bruno pinning the Hurricanes at their own 23-yard line with three minutes to go and timeouts in their pocket.
Miami struggled and faced a 4th-and-6. Testaverde hit Brian Blades on a quick route. PSU cornerback Eddie Johnson went for the interception and missed allowing Blades to gain 41 yards. A few plays later Miami had a 1st-and-goal at the PSU 9-yard line and a minute to go.
On first down Testaverde hit Irvin for a four yard gain. On second down Tim Johnson sacked Testaverde forcing Miami to take a timeout with 25 seconds to go. Third down resulted in an incomplete pass, and with that the 1986 National Championship was about to come down to one play. Timeout was called on the field.
The Penn State defense had a motto they had recited all season: "Somebody make a play." When their backs were against the wall, and there was no more gas left in the tank, someone would call it out. "Somebody make a play." As they stood in the huddle on that cool January night in the Arizona desert, eighteen seconds and one play to go to decide the national championship, the Penn State players looked each other in the eye and called out the challenge. "Somebody make a play."
The teams took the field to decide the game. As Testaverde broke the huddle and approached the line, Conlan called it out again. "Somebody's got to make a play." As Testaverde dropped back to pass, he stared down Perriman in the endzone. The defense converged on him, and Pete Giftopolous stepped in front to make the interception. He scrambled around for a second almost as if he didn't know whether to try to score or run to the sideline to celebrate. His teammates yelled for him to just hit the ground, so he fell to his knees clutching the ball, and the national championship, in his thick bandaged hands.
Penn State had pulled off the miracle in the desert.
(Hat tip the amazing Penn State Football Encylopedia and Gamechangers by Lou Prato and What It Means To Be A Nittany Lion by Lou Prato and Scott Brown from which much of the information from this post and all of the other posts was researched.)
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- Look at John Bruno's comment, " because the white players let the black players eat at the training table once a week." Imagine that comment now? Of course everyone knew that Jerome Browne was trying to start trouble by throwing out the racist charge and Bruno just gave him a sarcastic remark.
- Not everything has to be an issue, especially when some old guy wearing dad sneakers actually writes a letter to the editor, who does that these days anyways/
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Who knows. But I'm pretty sure I know where it came from and what it means to most (probably not all) doing it. Kinda nice to flip somebody a poorly-camouflaged bird and have them think you’re cool for it.
V for victory.
Who knows. But I'm pretty sure I know where it came from and what it means to most (probably not all) doing it. Kinda nice to flip somebody a poorly-camouflaged bird and have them think you’re cool for it.
V for victory.
It came from, if I recall, when England was at war with the french, they would cut off the two fingers, (index and middle) from the archers if they captured them.
That way they could no longer fire an arrow. The english would do the two fingers to mock their army showing they have theirs.
Either way, James was doing V for victory.
The biggest problem I have is the 4 letter network taking another opportunity to take a shot at our program. I think CJF has handled this brilliantly and the team has been fine, but all weekend long on the main page of the 4 letter network sat a headline "PSU take t-shirts away from players supporting teammate" Now that headline doesn't tell the whole story and makes it sound like PSU did something wrong and is NOT supporting the player or players in question over this ridiculous letter. The shirts were taken because CJF didn't know about them and I have been told may be some sort of NCAA violation. I can't stand how the news media portrays things most of the time.
I’ll take my chances with James Franklin, the black HEAD COACH, in the family living room with mama.
Not sure who was MVP but it should have been Ray Isom. I am not sure which Miami player had warned the receivers they better be ready because Penn St will hit you hard but there was a quote out thereAnd it doesn't matter. there is no way Joe would allow hair like that. He wouldn't allow that chain stuff. We all know it. We know the story about the 87 Fiesta Bowl too.
I know fans who prefer those ways, and I get that. I also get some things have changed and myself personally I don't care if a kid wears his hair some stupid way or does that chain thing. It doesn't bother me, even if I don't agree with a style or certain actions. I will say it's stupid to publicly complain about it though.
And the worst thing is to make it a racist issue. https://www.blackshoediaries.com/2010/9/9/1677482/greatest-penn-state-upsets-of-all
When the Miami players arrived in Tempe they shocked everyone by getting off the plane dressed in combat fatigues. When asked about it, team leader Jerome Brown said, "This is war." Head coach Jimmy Johnson told the Phoenix Gazette, "That was a great idea. I wish I had thought of it."
Once on the ground in Tempe, the Miami players quickly became disgusted with what they saw. Penn State fans were everywhere. Not only that, but it seemed like the locals were even pulling for the Nittany Lions. Not surprising considering it was Penn State's fourth appearance in the Fiesta Bowl. Penn State fans were regulars in Tempe and had made quite a favorable impression on the locals. On the flip side, Miami was a small private school without a large alumni following. Most of their fans lived in the low income inner city and didn't have the money to travel across the country to Arizona to see their team play. So there weren't many Miami fans to cheer them on.
All week long the Miami players hated everything about being in Arizona. They hated dealing with stupid questions from the press about their attitudes. They hated Jimmy Johnson's regimented practice schedule sarcastically calling their coach "the Grinch that stole Christmas." They hated being compared to the Penn State choir boys. In one interview Brown said,
"I know a couple guys on (Penn State) are as crazy as I am. It's just a big front, that Penn State is clean cut. When it's time to get down, they get in the dirt. They hit late, we hit late. Of course, we may hit a little later."
Everything came to a head at the joint team dinner the night before the game. For entertainment, the players were allowed to spend the day walking around an Old Western Theme park. Then they were treated to an old west steak fry for their pregame meal. For Hurricane players that grew up in the poorest projects of south Florida, it couldn't be more corny, and by corny, I mean white.
As part of the entertainment for the evening, the teams were asked to come up with little skits to amuse the crowd. The Penn State players, dressed in coats and ties, went first and proceeded to make fun of Jimmy Johnson's hair and the boorish behavior of the Miami players over the past few days. Then Penn State punter John Bruno insulted the Miami players when he made a self deprecating racial joke.
Bruno said Penn State was a family "because the white players let the black players eat at the training table once a week."
When it was Miami's turn to take the stage, Brown ripped off his jumpsuit (the choice of attire for the Miami players that night) exposing his combat fatigues underneath. He grabbed the microphone famously saying,
"Did the Japanese have dinner at Pearl Harbor before they bombed them? Let's go."
And with that, the Miami players stood up and took off their jump suits exposing their fatigues. Then they walked out of the room to the team bus. As the assembled crowd sat in stunned silence, Bruno reached for a microphone and asked, "Excuse me, but didn't the Japanese lose the war?"
Bruno had dropped a bomb of his own that brought down the house. The incident made the national news (the fatigues...but not the racial joke), and from that point on nobody was talking about a football game any more. This was a battle between David and Goliath. It was a competition between class and crass. It was a fight between good and evil. Everyone in America was firmly cheering for Penn State.
By the time the game finally arrived, both teams had had about enough of each other. Joe Paterno gave his players strict orders not to talk back to the Miami players, provoke them, or respond to their verbal or physical assaults in any way. The Miami players, on the other hand, did everything they could to taunt their opponent and get in their heads. During pregame the Hurricanes jogged through Penn State's warmup formations and tried to engage them in verbal confrontations, but the Penn State players listened to their coach and wouldn't have any of it.
When the game started, Miami got off to a fast start. They sacked quarterback John Shaffer driving the Penn State offense backwards. The Hurricanes whooped and danced and the rout was on. Or so they thought.
On Miami's second possession, Irvin went to catch a ball over the middle and Penn State safety Ray Isom leveled him with a vicious hit knocking him silly and forcing him to fumble the ball. Later in the game Isom leveled Brian Blades on a similar play. In What It Means To Be A Nittany Lion, Isom described the hit.
Brian Blades had a brother, Bennie, who was a safety. He was a hard hitter and a talker. When we were on the field, Miami's defense was on the sideline talking. Brian ran the same post pattern that Michael Irvin had run earlier and fumbled after I hit him. The ball was thrown a little high and I didn't go for the ball.
I remember looking to the sideline and telling his brother, "You better come get him, he ain't gettin' up!" Brian rolled over and ran straight to the sideline. I said, "Now you put a Pamper on him and send him back out here." That was the hardest hit I had in that game.
Throughout the rest of the game the Miami wide receivers had short arms when they went over the middle. They dropped seven passes that were perfectly thrown from Testaverde. For all of their efforts to get inside the heads of the Penn State players, it was the Miami Hurricane who psyched themselves out. As Shane Conlan said after the game, "Our little, slow guys back there just rocked 'em, and soon they didn't want to catch the ball. Later on, we were helping their receivers up after we hit them and patting them on their butts. Receivers hate that."
Throughout the game Penn State stymied Testaverde with a defensive plan that was masterly crafted by PSU defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. For most of the evening State dropped eight men back into coverage. Everywhere Testaverde looked he saw a linebacker. Stubbornly, Miami refused to run the ball into Penn State's pass oriented defense. It was almost as if they didn't just want to win the game. They wanted to blow out Penn State just to prove their superiority. It was a foolish act as the Penn State defense forced five interceptions from the Heisman trophy winner.
Miami took a 7-0 lead in the early part of the second quarter after recovering a fumble at the Penn State 23-yard line. Penn State responded immediately with their only sustained drive of the night going 74 yards on 13 plays. Shaffer scored the touchdown when he dived into the endzone on a four yard quarterback bootleg. The first half ended in a 7-7 tie.
The defenses dominated the third quarter and both teams were scoreless. All American Penn State linebacker Shane Conlan had injured his knee badly in the first half and twisted his ankle after intermission. He intercepted a pass in the third quarter and only managed a few steps before his knee gave out and he fell down. He was furious with himself for letting the pain win. He would later have a chance for a rematch.
Miami took over at midfield early in the fourth quarter and moved down the field on a 20-yard run by Highsmith. The drive set up a field goal that gave Miami a 10-7 lead with just under 12 minutes to go in the game. The Penn State offense failed to move on their ensuing possession, and the Hurricanes were beginning to sense the national championship within their grasp as their confidence was visibly starting to grow.
But the Penn State defense wasn't ready to give up just yet. With just under nine minutes to go, Conlan stepped in front of a Testaverde pass and snagged another interception. Once again he fought through the pain of his throbbing knee and ankle, but this time the pain lost. Conlan ran 40 yards down to the Miami 5-yard line where he was brought down. Two plays later D.J. Dozier barrelled over the middle for a six-yard touchdown, and then he took a knee in prayer. Penn State had taken the 14-10 lead, but there were still eight minutes left on the clock. All across America Penn State fans were saying a prayer of their own.
Miami fumbled away the ball on the kickoff, but Penn State was unable to do anything with it and had to punt the ball away. The two teams then traded another round of punts with Bruno pinning the Hurricanes at their own 23-yard line with three minutes to go and timeouts in their pocket.
Miami struggled and faced a 4th-and-6. Testaverde hit Brian Blades on a quick route. PSU cornerback Eddie Johnson went for the interception and missed allowing Blades to gain 41 yards. A few plays later Miami had a 1st-and-goal at the PSU 9-yard line and a minute to go.
On first down Testaverde hit Irvin for a four yard gain. On second down Tim Johnson sacked Testaverde forcing Miami to take a timeout with 25 seconds to go. Third down resulted in an incomplete pass, and with that the 1986 National Championship was about to come down to one play. Timeout was called on the field.
The Penn State defense had a motto they had recited all season: "Somebody make a play." When their backs were against the wall, and there was no more gas left in the tank, someone would call it out. "Somebody make a play." As they stood in the huddle on that cool January night in the Arizona desert, eighteen seconds and one play to go to decide the national championship, the Penn State players looked each other in the eye and called out the challenge. "Somebody make a play."
The teams took the field to decide the game. As Testaverde broke the huddle and approached the line, Conlan called it out again. "Somebody's got to make a play." As Testaverde dropped back to pass, he stared down Perriman in the endzone. The defense converged on him, and Pete Giftopolous stepped in front to make the interception. He scrambled around for a second almost as if he didn't know whether to try to score or run to the sideline to celebrate. His teammates yelled for him to just hit the ground, so he fell to his knees clutching the ball, and the national championship, in his thick bandaged hands.
Penn State had pulled off the miracle in the desert.
(Hat tip the amazing Penn State Football Encylopedia and Gamechangers by Lou Prato and What It Means To Be A Nittany Lion by Lou Prato and Scott Brown from which much of the information from this post and all of the other posts was researched.)
MORE FROM BLACK SHOE DIARIES
- Big Ten Recap - Week 7
- Two Things I Liked, Two Things I Didn’t Like: Iowa Edition
- Robert Windsor Proves Unstoppable Against the Hawkeyes: BSD MVP
- MMQB - This Team has Mettle
- Penn State Opens as 7.5 Point Favorite Against Michigan
- Position Grades: Iowa
MMQB - This Team has Mettle
- Look at John Bruno's comment, " because the white players let the black players eat at the training table once a week." Imagine that comment now? Of course everyone knew that Jerome Browne was trying to start trouble by throwing out the racist charge and Bruno just gave him a sarcastic remark.
- Not everything has to be an issue, especially when some old guy wearing dad sneakers actually writes a letter to the editor, who does that these days anyways/
Judging from some of these posts, I think it's a safe bet that certain people here have never led others.
CJF's response has been absolutely fantastic. He is showing a degree of genuine love and respect for his men, and if that aggravates a bunch of 70-year-olds who demand that the damned kids these days dress like it's 1969, oh well.
Now, is it time to move beyond this? Probably. I'm certainly not going to suggest to Jonathan Sutherland how he should feel -- and I'm guessing that those of you who are suggesting such a thing would feel differently if he were your son. But, I think the story writ large has run its course, and it's time to put Dave Petersen's nonsense to bed.
A good opportunity to come together as a team and rally around one of their own. The point has been made -- and in a respectful manner. Probably nothing more to be said on the matter.
CJF's response has been absolutely fantastic. He is showing a degree of genuine love and respect for his men, and if that aggravates a bunch of 70-year-olds who demand that the damned kids these days dress like it's 1969, oh well.
Now, is it time to move beyond this? Probably. I'm certainly not going to suggest to Jonathan Sutherland how he should feel -- and I'm guessing that those of you who are suggesting such a thing would feel differently if he were your son. But, I think the story writ large has run its course, and it's time to put Dave Petersen's nonsense to bed.
A good opportunity to come together as a team and rally around one of their own. The point has been made -- and in a respectful manner. Probably nothing more to be said on the matter.
