Well once again it is the disdainful taste of the actions of another that have brought me here to vent/rant/curse/scream. So unless you live inside the mantle of the earth (for those of you science challenged that is the area under the crust) you have heard or read or saw something about the PSU scandal. I won't rehash the public facts because they just make me want to vomit but I do want to talk about the general response to this horrible story. So let me start by saying I use to record all the old SVU episodes on TNT. You know those holiday weekend marathons? Well like any normal human being I am disturbed by the pedo story lines but like most viewers I probably can write it off in my mind as a T.V. show (since that's what it is) and sit through the end to watch Stabler beat the shit out of the bad guy while Olivia pines over Elliot's manliness; but I digress...What is really upsetting to me about the whole story are the following observations I have made - some of these have been articulated to others and some have not
1. Why the fuck didn't McQueary do something when he caught this guy
2. What football program is more important than stopping a pedo
3. Its one thing to cheat at football by paying players or turning a blind eye to "performance enhancers" its another to turn a blind eye to child abuse
4. How in the hell do you say "The letter of the law was followed, the info went up the chain of command"
5. Where's the sympathy for the kids? Some old man is getting more sympathetic comments then the poor kids

So all that said the following ideas are whispering and nagging at my brain...
If I had been in McQueary's shoes would I have called out right then or called 911 or whatever? I would like to think so but then again no one ever expects to witness something like that...this guy was probably his hero...maybe he froze, got scared or was in disbelief. Maybe he thought the dude would snap and go after him
Maybe he thought no one would believe him or there would be a cover up and he would get dragged through the mud
Did JoePa chalk this story up to some student trying to get a payoff from PSU - we don't know what was said to the coach
What father tells his kid to notify the college coach and NOT the police - that to me smacks of a culture of fear in the football program. Can't take a shit w/o JoePa's approval

Like I said these are just some thoughts tuggin at my brain. I would like to think that I would tear someones fucking face off if I saw anything even resembling child abuse but we live in a fucked up world where people sue good Samaritans that pull them out of burning cars....