I recently posted an entry about Franco Harris' ill-advised statement of support for Joe Paterno. Matt Hinton's Dr. Saturday blog at Rivals.com is evidence that I was not the only one who was shocked at the hall of famer's tuned-out comments of support for Joe Paterno. What was he thinking?
Franco Harris has joined Graham Spanier in getting slapped for weighing in on the wrong side in the Penn State sex scandal. The former university president in a flourish of insensitivity and naiveté expressed confidence that charges against the athletic director and a vice president of the university will be proven groundless. He praised the executives’ honesty, integrity, and compassion. In return for his tone-deaf expression of loyalty, he lost his job. Now he has found it necessary to resign from the board of U.S. Steel, as well as from the board of advisors of the Department of Defense’s Naval Postgraduate School. Harris huffed and puffed in support of Joe Paterno and took sympathy pain to the extreme by losing his own job. The details are provided in the article linked below.
The crawl teaser on Yahoo's front page reads "Legend pays for backing Paterno."
The sample teaser that pops up when you pass your cursor over the crawl reads "Hall of Famer pays for backing Paterno."
The headline for the actual article is "Franco Harris stands by his old coach, and loses his new job."
The link to get you to the article is:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Franco-Harris-stands-by-his-old-coach-and-loses?urn=ncaaf-wp9995
It's a good thing Franco was on the football team rather than the debate team.
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