PULL YOUR SHIRT DOWN!
by Orson on Mar 31, 2008 4:18 PM EDT
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PrintReader Dan points the way to a startling occurrence: Joe Paterno, after years of closed practices, has opened up practices to the prying eyes of the media, and has gone so far as allowing video streams of exactly what's going on inside Penn State's practices. It's not quite "Kim Jong-Il: Cribs" level access, but for spring football it's damn close.
What's going on, you ask?
--Joe Paterno scaring the crap out of a linemen by rushing at him and into a blocking pad in an effort to show him proper pad level and attack angle. (Mind, read: "Please, please don't let him die right here.")
--JoePa screaming at a lineman to "PULL YA SHIRT DOWN"
--Further installation and use of the zone read in the Penn State offense, a look that proved quite effective for Michael Robinson two years ago and was as effective in the Anthony Morelli era as bowling with cinder blocks.
Freedom! JoePa jumps in.
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I don’t credit the zone read’s failure the last two years to JoePa, but to Morelli’s caucasionality.
by ThreenOut on Mar 31, 2008 4:28 PM EDT reply actions
So when did Joe Pesci start coaching PSU?
by Because They Can on Mar 31, 2008 4:39 PM EDT reply actions
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October 25th 1917 – it was a co-ordinated event.
by DanF on Mar 31, 2008 4:46 PM EDT reply actions
PSU fans: Is this display strictly for cinematic effect or does JoePa actually still run around yelling at practices? Those players look a little uneasy to me…but that could be explained in so, so many ways.
by Because They Can on Mar 31, 2008 5:09 PM EDT reply actions
Is it just me or does JoePa sound a bit like Mama Fratelli from The Goonies?
by The Penguin on Mar 31, 2008 5:52 PM EDT reply actions
It’s not for effect. The PSU players say Joe still runs around, yells at guys, and gets his nose in the dirt.
by mhentz on Mar 31, 2008 5:53 PM EDT reply actions
I know how JoePa feels. I have to yell the same thing to my wife when we are on Bourbon St. after a few Hand Grenades.
by Mr. Pelican Pants on Mar 31, 2008 7:20 PM EDT reply actions
He is truly a wily, entertaining, cantankerous bastard.
There aren’t any guys like him anymore. Civil War veterans, that is. There are probably one or two other really old, angry coaches.
by Run Up The Score on Mar 31, 2008 9:29 PM EDT reply actions
It’s April Fools Day… What will EDSBS cook up today?
by CincySooner on Apr 1, 2008 8:25 AM EDT reply actions
JoePa and Chuck Norris could do such wonderful things together for the world … if only their schedules every matched up.
by Kenny on Apr 1, 2008 1:16 PM EDT reply actions
Well, you never see them in the same place…
by Run Up The Score on Apr 1, 2008 10:58 PM EDT reply actions
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