Happy Birthday Joe Paterno, from a West Virginia Fan

I've had my fun making fun of Joe Pa. But at the same time, I have a lot of respect for Joe that I think I have more than mentioned on here over three-plus years. Over at JoePa's Virtual Birthday Party , they are putting together an "82 reasons we love JoePa" post and giving away stuff and stuff. I have a lot of memories of him beating West Virginia—memories of crushing defeats that just made my blood boil. There was a time when disrespecting him anywhere besides opposing college campuses wasn't too cool, though. Because he always did the right thing. People hated him, but respected him. Because he won a sh*t load of games. That's the Joe I want to remember, and leave any mean-spirited comments for another week...month...year. My fondest memory of Joe was the 1984 game where West Virginia broke the 28-game losing streak to PSU. I was there, and 14 at the time, so I was young enough to get reeeeeally excited about it and old enough to understand how big it was. So that's the most ... (link)