As you can tell from my signature, I live in Atlanta. I am originally from Erie, Pa and have been a lifelong Steelers, Pirates, Pens, and Penn State fan. I even pull for Pitt if they aren't playing PSU. I was 7 in 79 when Guman was stopped at the Goal Line and I remember wondering how a 7 year old was going to resuscitate 2 Uncles, 2 Aunts, my Dad and a Grandfather. Anyhow, I have always prided myself on "choosing" to align myself with Penn State and Joe Paterno. I am sitting here at work wearing my Joe Knows Football t-shirt in anticipation of tomorrow night. So consequently, I have a hard time laughing at jokes people make about Paterno. I also have a hard time listening to people talk about how he is senile or crazy. Down here on ESPN Radio, the local drive time guys, Buck and Kincade, tend to get on Paterno. Buck is the QB who threw the pass in 1980 to Lindsey Scott that won Georgia the National Championship. He doesn't crack on Paterno. Its Kincade. Kincade is your typical overly provincial holier than thou jack off from Philadelphia. He went to Temple. He loves to take shots at Paterno. So every week they do a segment with Jim Donnan. A couple weeks ago, after the "road rage" incident, Kincade tried to goad Donnan into commenting on Paterno. Donnan wouldn't do it. Donnan instead a few complimentary things to say about Paterno and wouldn't bite as Kincade would have liked. I thought that was interesting given the comments Paterno had for the Oklahoma program in the 70's and Donnan's affiliation with Switzer and the Sooners. I thought Donnan would jump at the chance to make a comment. He didn't. Then a couple weeks ago, I read a MB post where a guy said that his father played football for Marland back in the mid 60's. The son was attending PSU currently or recently and he and his Dad were walking around campus. They ran into Paterno and his Dad struck up a conversation with Paterno about the Maryland PSU game that the Father played in. Long story short, it was one of Paterno's first games as HC and the Father told the son that he couldn't believe the clarity with which Paterno recalled the game and the players on both sides of the ball who played. Then, yesterday, Donnan is on again with Buck and Kincade and Kincade is talking about he would never want an 81 year old CEO of his company and how Penn State fans rival Alabama fans in their arrogance of the program except that Penn State fans don't have the NC's to show for it like Bama does. So he says to Donnan........Coach....seriously.....when is Paterno going to hang it up ? If he had the record, don't you think he would have hung it up already. The tone of the question and how loud Kincade was when he was asking it completely signalled how much he disliked Penn State and Paterno and that he was trying to lead Donnan down a path. So Donnan starts laughing and says......."I don't know if Paterno cares about the record or not....... I do know this.......not many people love football more than Joe Paterno. Its what he does and its who he is. When I was on the Nike Coaches Tour with him a few years ago.......all he wanted to do was talk Football. All the other Coaches were trying to make t-times and Paterno would come up and say "Hey Coach, can we talk about what you are doing with your spread option package"." Donnan went on to say.....I love football.....but not that much. I think Paterno will be Coaching for a few more years yet. It seemed that despite Kincades desire to get somebody like Donnan to throw Paterno under the bus, Donnan wouldn't do it. So I wondered if Was that because its taboo to do so or because there is nothing Donnan could say to give Kincade what he seemed to want. An indictment of Paternos character or current state of mind. So..........the question is.......is Paterno all there ? Do any of you have any stories that would support or refute the "mental well being" of our beloved Coach Paterno ? Sidenote.......its funny........if you are 45 and run down the sideline and stuff a picture of a blown call into a referee's shirt pocket a la Bill Cowher, you are passionate.........if you run down the sideline and grab the referee by the arm and you are 79 (at the time) you have Alzheimer's.