Any human being with a pulsating heart can easily conclude when that man was fired AND done so with such recklessness, it broke his heart. Having said that, I’m disinterested in debating the physiological condition of Coach during this process.

You spend your entire life dedicated to education, coaching, and donating to worthy causes and once you’re kicked to the curb like some fast food employee (no offense), tell me your heart isn’t broken.

I’m sorry but diminished cognitive skills and relatively coherent conversion does not supersede a broken heart…my 2 cents.

I am so thankful to have Posnanski providing this kind of perspective for us.

Posnanski’s piece gave somebody the vapors, so they trot out Frank Deford with this super-sized bucket of vomit-encrusted tripe. If you don’t want to sully your browser with the link, here’s a sample from the lede:

Let us for the moment put aside how the old citizen whose credo was “Success With Honor,” acted, with regard to pedophilia — so without sensitivity, so irresponsibly, so ultimately coldbloodedly.

It goes downhill from there.

more nuanced to write an article like Posnanski wrote than to write the typical grumble grumble enabler grumble grumble article or the grumble gumble Paterno was a saint article grumble gumble article. I suspect both are born of the idea that author is truely scared to ponder, honestly, how they would handle such a situation.