Covering the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal a new book set to hit shelves next week gives an inside look into the relationship between Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky..
Shockingly, Joe Paterno had a secret hate for Sandusky. Some media outlets are getting an advanced copy of the book.
People who read the book may be shocked to learn Paterno never really got along with Sandusky. At one point, he wanted him fired.
"Paterno," Joe Posnanski's biography of the former Penn State legendary coach, who passed away in January, will be released on Tuesday.
Some media outlets, like The Patriot-News, got their hands on an advanced copy. In it, some revealing conversations between the author and the coach.
At one point, Posnanski asks, ‘did you consider calling the police?’
Paterno responds, ‘to be honest with you, I didn't. This isn't my field. I didn't know what to do. I had not seen anything. Jerry didn't work for me anymore. I didn't have anything to do with him.
I tried to look through the Penn State guidelines to see what I was suppose to do. It said that U was suppose to call Tim (Curley). So I did.”
On people saying he protected Sandusky over children, in the book Paterno says; ‘how could they think that? They really think that if I knew someone was hurting kids, I wouldn't stop it?’
At one point, Paterno wrote what the family calls a "why I hate Jerry Sandusky memo.’
In it, Paterno would gripe about Sandusky, saying he got lazy and distracted, lost the energy for coaching and was more interested in The Second Mile.
At the same time, the book reveals that Paterno would say he didn't see anything perverse in Sandusky's dealing's with children.
Saying, his problem with The Second Mile was much simpler: The kids annoyed the hell out of him. He did not want kids around when there was work to do.
We also learn that Paterno's family had to urge him to read the Sandusky report. After he did, the book claims, he didn't understand some of the terminology, even asking what the word 'sodomy' meant.
Shockingly, Joe Paterno had a secret hate for Sandusky. Some media outlets are getting an advanced copy of the book.
People who read the book may be shocked to learn Paterno never really got along with Sandusky. At one point, he wanted him fired.
"Paterno," Joe Posnanski's biography of the former Penn State legendary coach, who passed away in January, will be released on Tuesday.
Some media outlets, like The Patriot-News, got their hands on an advanced copy. In it, some revealing conversations between the author and the coach.
At one point, Posnanski asks, ‘did you consider calling the police?’
Paterno responds, ‘to be honest with you, I didn't. This isn't my field. I didn't know what to do. I had not seen anything. Jerry didn't work for me anymore. I didn't have anything to do with him.
I tried to look through the Penn State guidelines to see what I was suppose to do. It said that U was suppose to call Tim (Curley). So I did.”
On people saying he protected Sandusky over children, in the book Paterno says; ‘how could they think that? They really think that if I knew someone was hurting kids, I wouldn't stop it?’
At one point, Paterno wrote what the family calls a "why I hate Jerry Sandusky memo.’
In it, Paterno would gripe about Sandusky, saying he got lazy and distracted, lost the energy for coaching and was more interested in The Second Mile.
At the same time, the book reveals that Paterno would say he didn't see anything perverse in Sandusky's dealing's with children.
Saying, his problem with The Second Mile was much simpler: The kids annoyed the hell out of him. He did not want kids around when there was work to do.
We also learn that Paterno's family had to urge him to read the Sandusky report. After he did, the book claims, he didn't understand some of the terminology, even asking what the word 'sodomy' meant.