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re: Franklin with some more lovely quotes about Vandy ....

Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:42 pm to
Posted by escatawpabuckeye
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:42 pm to
you guys have to understand....penn state fans are among the most self righteous, sanctimonious assholes you will ever meet. up until the day that sandusky was convicted, penn state fans swore up and down about "success with honor" and joe paterno's "grand experiment" to produce special young men. nevermind the fact that paterno and penn state lead the big ten in arrests and criminal behavior during the last several years of paterno's tenure, to say nothing of the sandusky affair.

franklin is just playing to his base. nothing warms the hearts of PSU fans more than to blow smoke up their asses about how much different and better they are.
This post was edited on 1/30/14 at 8:44 pm
Posted by morriscat2
tennessee
Member since Jun 2012
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Posted on 1/30/14 at 8:53 pm to
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you guys have to understand....penn state fans are among the most self righteous, sanctimonious a-holes you will ever meet. up until the day that sandusky was convicted, penn state fans swore up and down about "success with honor" and joe paterno's "grand experiment" to produce special young men. nevermind the fact that paterno and penn state lead the big ten in arrests and criminal behavior during the last several years of paterno's tenure, to say nothing of the sandusky affair.


Your alright for a buckeye fan.
Posted by Feral
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 1/31/14 at 8:10 am to
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you guys have to understand....penn state fans are among the most self righteous, sanctimonious a-holes you will ever meet. up until the day that sandusky was convicted, penn state fans swore up and down about "success with honor" and joe paterno's "grand experiment" to produce special young men. nevermind the fact that paterno and penn state lead the big ten in arrests and criminal behavior during the last several years of paterno's tenure, to say nothing of the sandusky affair.

franklin is just playing to his base. nothing warms the hearts of PSU fans more than to blow smoke up their asses about how much different and better they are.



Very true, and the aftermath of the Sandusky trial really threw back the curtain on just how horrible their fan base is.

However, not to play devil's advocate, but overzealous fanhood makes sports fans do a lot of awful things in defense of their team (insert joke about Bama fans killing each other). It really is one of the more depressing things about sports fans in the 21st century, and it seems to be getting worse with social media. I die a little inside every time I see some fan tell a sports writer "kill yourself" on twitter or in the comments section, and it's heinous when grown people attack high school kids on twitter when they commit to play a sport elsewhere.

There really are very few fans nowadays who can look at what their team/school does objectively. Of course, what Penn State fans were excusing and trying to legitimize was far far worse than any on-field result or recruiting outcome, especially since they'd been touting this ruse of "winning the right way" and all that crap.

TL;DR - most sports fans nowadays are fricked up in the head.
This post was edited on 1/31/14 at 8:12 am
Posted by scrooster
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Member since Jul 2012
37733 posts
Posted on 1/31/14 at 9:29 am to
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you guys have to understand....penn state fans are among the most self righteous, sanctimonious assholes you will ever meet. up until the day that sandusky was convicted, penn state fans swore up and down about "success with honor" and joe paterno's "grand experiment" to produce special young men. nevermind the fact that paterno and penn state lead the big ten in arrests and criminal behavior during the last several years of paterno's tenure, to say nothing of the sandusky affair.

franklin is just playing to his base. nothing warms the hearts of PSU fans more than to blow smoke up their asses about how much different and better they are.


That's true. I've always heard that from my Michigan and Notre Dame friends living up that way.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
54792 posts
Posted on 1/31/14 at 9:33 am to
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franklin is just playing to his base. nothing warms the hearts of PSU fans more than to blow smoke up their asses about how much different and better they are.


Same could be said about UM making the Buckeye faithful think they had a great team. Thank god Sparty set that record straight.
Posted by MetArl15
Washington, DC
Member since Apr 2007
9487 posts
Posted on 1/31/14 at 2:26 pm to
Penn St., while an upper tier state school, has a huge alumni base that loves to tout how great of an academic institution it is. It's to the point that when a Penn St. grad tells you where he went to college, he or she expects you to react as if he said Harvard or Yale or Oxford.

It is quite a cultish alumni base. unfortunately it's also an enormous one. 1 in every 130 or so Americans with a college degree received it from Penn St.
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