PATERNO TO HAVE PLAYERS CLEAN STADIUM.
The legal ramifications are still shaking out from the Penn State assault/burglary case, but the internal punishment from the extremely fatigued Joe Paterno is a done deal:
While a possible punishment in the courts is still to be decided, Paterno already handed one down to the entire team: the Nittany Lions will clean Beaver Stadium on the Sunday's after every home game.
Looking at the home schedule for 2007, we have some definite possibilities for exotic fan refuse to make the players' jobs much, much more difficult than usual. Florida International brings the pork with them, but the real worry might be cleaning up the dead bodies A'Mod Ned leaves behind when his inevitable crutch-wielding tirade begins sometime in the third quarter.

If it's funny once, it's funny every time: Ned.
Notre Dame will leave behind only their echoes--easy enough to clean up there--while all five Buffalo fans can't possibly make all that much of a mess. The biggest concern should be the Capital One Visigoth Horde that is the Ohio State fanbase, known for improvising latrines on the fly. Be afraid, Penn State footballers. That innocent cooler you're handling could very well be something Jack Bauer is torturing people right now at this moment to find.*
Don't touch that cooler, or you'll incinerate most of Pennsylvania.
*Predicated on urban legend that at the 2006 Fiesta Bowl, Ohio State fans left coolers full of feces in the tailgating lots. Ohio State fans respond with a.) "Fuck you," b.) "Fuck you, Notre Dame took a shit on the field, at least we had the decency to do it in a cooler." Both points well taken.
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Sounds like October 6 is a perfect day for a football-based road trip with enough adult diapers to retrofit an entire shuttle full of crazy ladies.
Seriously, this is better news than “No OSU or Michigan on the schedule” for Iowa fans.
by Oops Pow Surprise on May 22, 2007 12:39 PM EDT reply actions
Um, OK – while I’m sure the Orlando Sentinel’s a fine paper (yes, yes, I know it’s an AP story), someone a little closer to the source might be a bit better. The Centre Daily’s a bit slow (it’s a small newspaper), but they’ve got a page from the Philadelphia Inquirer’s reporter here.
A bit of a correction: cleaning the stadium’s only one part of the punishment for the whole team. They’re also going to work with Special Olympics and build a home with Habitat for Humanity. The money that they would’ve earned cleaning the stadium will go to the club sports.
This also is just the “whole team” punishment. The individuals involved will also get some punishment – being kept out for games, dropping on the depth chart, or worse.
by Pat on May 22, 2007 12:49 PM EDT reply actions
I’m guessing that “work with people from the Special Olympics” really means play against Notre Dame.
by bhors on May 22, 2007 12:54 PM EDT reply actions
“I’m guessing that "work with people from the Special Olympics" really means play against Notre Dame.”
looking in Anthony Morelli’s direction, whistling conspicuously
by Phil K. on May 22, 2007 2:04 PM EDT reply actions
Odds they just lead him over to the Baskeball arena and say “look, we cleaned it last night” ?
by TheGoldfishCowboy on May 22, 2007 2:06 PM EDT reply actions
Once, for community service while attending South Carolina, I had to clean the stadium at 7am sharp after some random game. It’s a hellish experience that I wouldnt wish on my worst enemy.
by rob on May 22, 2007 2:23 PM EDT reply actions
…Paterno already handed one down to the entire team: the Nittany Lions will clean Beaver Stadium on the Sunday’s after every home game.
Good to see that even at his old age, Paterno still appreciates a clean Beaver.
by Geaux Irish on May 22, 2007 3:04 PM EDT reply actions
Are we bashing the AP Newswire? Because that “Sunday’s” Orson clipped from the article is merely a plural, right? I read somewhere recently that the cutesy name for that mistake is “The Greengrocer’s Apostrophe.”
It’s one thing for a grocer to get it wrong…
by panhandler on May 22, 2007 3:38 PM EDT reply actions
For the record, the “poop in a cooler” legend actually began from a Texas fan, at the Horseshoe in 2005….
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that Notre Dame has claimed this as their own, however…since all our college football base are belong to them…
Also, PSU fans actually DID chuck bottles full of urine at the OSU band during the 2005 night game, so the cleanup may be quite interesting regardless…
by Pants McPants on May 22, 2007 3:41 PM EDT reply actions
Pants McPants – Funny, I just remember seeing balloons filled with urine at the night game. How urine got from point a to point b puzzles me to this day.
by NittanyLyin on May 22, 2007 4:23 PM EDT reply actions
When the hell was urine thrown in anything? I had a seat right behind the band and didn’t see anything thrown or maybe I was just mesmerized by that gay stuffed football they pinned a tail to that the band was passing around or possibly by Troy Smith falling apart like a little bitch anytime Zombie Nation played
by Nick on May 22, 2007 5:56 PM EDT reply actions
- +aleph-null.
One of the “fundraisers” the ROTC detachments had when I was at UofNebraska was cleaning Memorial Stadium. I still get flashbacks just looking at tailgate flotsam and jetsam.
by Albino Tornado on May 22, 2007 7:30 PM EDT reply actions
I’m beginning to think that the ubiquitous, instantaneous “No way, dude, I was there, SITTING RIGHT BY the (band/cheerleaders/empty band section/player’s mother/etc.), and I never saw it!” comment – which pops up every time something like the above-mentioned pee-throwing is alleged – should be taken as incontrovertible proof that said incident did, in fact, take place.
by El Caballo de Sangre on May 22, 2007 8:41 PM EDT reply actions
#13, during my time at LSU, I was in the AFROTC for my frosh year. We had to clean the stadium after every home game. A redneck friend of mine took advantage of the free booze we found.
by MCab on May 22, 2007 11:05 PM EDT reply actions
Ron Paul 2008… he doesn’t torture, he is against a national ID and now he is coming out in favor of a plus one playoff system sense he truly understands how the MSM can try to screw the SEC every chance tehy get.
by Gabe Harris on May 23, 2007 10:50 AM EDT reply actions

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