The Lions' Pride

Joe was powerful, but to think he could pull PSU out of the Big Ten is preposterous. He could "consider" it all he wanted and it still wouldn't happen.

I am considering stealing Miranda Kerr away from Orlando Bloom.

The point isn't whether Joe could actually remove the football team from the Big 10, it was that he was so pissed off by the officiating that he openly talked to other about his desire to remove the team from the Big 10.

Paterno would never have been able to pull PSU out of the B1G.

It's too bad he didn't have the authority to get us out of this conference. Of course he was pissed. Penn State doesn't deserve to be treated as a second class institution to anyone, and that's how it will always be in the big2 little10.

I think I made it through a good way through a 13 part plan to destroy the Big 10 officials headquarters following it, so I can relate.

It's not the Axis of Evil if you win.

Might want to consider canceling your subscription to US Weekly as well.

Sounds like a man with a lot of power.

AT least he was humane with said power. I'll revisit this tomorrow, don't want to ruin a weekend

With the sample of the record we get, it seems it was crappy regardless.

Someone post the pic of the Hartsock "catch" where the ref is staring at it hitting the ground. That's my favorite.

We are not the only team that has been screwed by bad calls there are bad calls every year look at Miami Ohio State, it happens and it is going to keep happening. How many bad calls happened last year. If not for Paterno's insistence instant replay would not be used in the Big 10 so I hate to say it some good has come out of the bad calls. I don't buy into the conspiracy theory and I agree when we use 3 time outs in 1 quarter we put ourselves in a pretty bad spot.

Every fan of every team in all sports believes the refs are biased against their squad at times. In my estimation, they are very rarely correct. Fans, including myself, put 10 times as much mental energy into the calls that go against us than we do the calls that go for us, and in the end we only remember those calls that screwed PSU. During games, I know I often look at another fan and say something along the lines of "we dodged a bullet there!" but I can't seem to remember those occasions although I could rattle 10 times PSU got shafted by the refs without thinking too hard.

I'd say our fanbase was a little extra paranoid before the scandal and I'd attribute it to all the undefeated seasons without championships. Nothing makes you think there is an anti-Penn State bias like finishing #2 and undefeated in back-to back years (68-69)