Regarding Chas’s tongue-in-cheek defense of Joe Paterno’s comments on Tony Johnson’s DUI arrest, I stongly agree (hey, Chas and I both grew up in Penn State families, so we ARE Penn State!). Like Chas, I want Paterno to stay at Penn State’s helm. Hey, he deserves it! Besides, another ten years of that crackpot and Penn State will be so far behind Pitt that they’ll never catch up.

(On a side note, Joe Paterno didn’t build Penn State’s football program into a national powerhouse. His predecessor, Rip Engle, did. Second, even if he did build Penn State, it belongs to more than just him now. A local contractor built the Blair County Courthouse and was paid for it. That doesn’t mean that said contractor can just come back and tear it down today.)

I, unfortunately, didn’t listen to the Jim Rome Show yesterday. I wish I had. I’m sure Rome did a much better job of trashing Paterno than I did. What did Rome say, Chas?

Hail to… (snicker)…