/Exasperated sigh

I created an account and responded:

Honestly, I don’t even know where to begin. While your little stunt may be “funny” for it’s shock factor—and will certainly “get you noticed on TV”, it is shameful. Think for a second about who else might be watching the game—who may see you on TV—the victims and their families. All your little stunt will do it add to their pain and suffering, by you belittling what happened to them.

Do you really think that your costume will bother the players or coaches? The PSU fans? The Houston fans? Do you think that Joe Paterno is going to be crying in his living room because of your costume? I really doubt it.

Sure, you may insight a few PSU fans to be pissed off—but I can tell you from experience—we have developed pretty thick skin over the years, and especially the past month. So maybe you cause a few people to shake their heads, or tell you how “funny” you are. The message you are really sending is, that Texans “don’t get it”. That to them child abuse is a laughable subject matter. And while I know that you don’t represent the majority of the people in your state, or even your school—-as we have learned recently—people tend to lump everyone together because of association.

So you waste your $200 on a costume, and another $20 bucks on a t-shirt, and another $50 on a game ticket—-you get on TV and show the nation just how classy or classless fans in Texas are. Meanwhile, I will cheer on my team—a team I remind you that had nothing to do with anything that is going on—and while I can’t make the bowl game this year—I will be wearing a new t-shirt I just got too—a t-shirt that says STILL PROUD TO BE A PENN STATER #ProudPSUforRAINN. And I will know that instead of spending money to laugh at child abuse, I spent money to just maybe help a victim, or stop abuse.

This was posted on the ShaggyBevo thread by Hooked By Horns:

I don’t think I have ever been more revolted by my fellow Texans and alleged Longhorn and football fans than by the contents of this thread. The football players you intend to harass were 8-12 years old when the alleged 2002 incident occurred and have absolutely nothing to do with this. Sandusky was not an employee of the University at the time and, if you were actually cognizant of the facts of this case, you would know:

1. There are at least four versions of Mike McQueary’s story, to date.
2. The Grand Jury report is not a transcript but a prosecutor’s summary that is used to secure indictment and may indeed contain “facts” that are not in evidence.

I would continue, but anything else would most assuredly be wasted on the denizens of this thread with their undulating cleavage avatars and unbelievable stance that child rape is somehow worthy of childish publicity stunts. As a 1983 graduate of UT and a 25 year veteran of a specialized department of Texas law enforcement, I find your attitude and potential behavior reprehensible. I am ashamed that you are from my state, potentially from my University, and that you intend to represent either in such a heinous manner. Should you intend to engage in any harrasing or unlawful behavior, I am certain that you will find yourself facing authorities who do not share your zeal for such iniquitous nonsense, and you will deserve the full force of whatever the law will bear.

How many of you consider yourselves Christians, Texans, or even humans? “What starts here changes the world” is to be a power for positive change. You childish, churlish ambassadors of nonsense disgust me as a Christian, as a Texan, and as a human.