This statement shows just how whack some Penn State fans are:

[Are_grits_groceries]

RT @Deadspin
Penn State fan to TV reporter about NCAA sanctions: "It was our 9/11. I just saw planes crashing into towers."

Get.A.Grip people.
Not even in the same universe.

[pnwmom]

1. That might be true from the perspective of the child victims. Their worlds were torn apart.

But not of Penn State fans.

[Kalidurga]

2. I don't even know what that means...

Is this person saying the NCAA is a terrorist group? That sanctions are the same as losing a family member, a friend, a co-worker, or being put out of work, because your office got blown up? Or is this person saying that the sanctions over the criminal acts of the PTB of Penn State has brought them to a place of reflection, they now have to wonder what kind of culture they live in and what they need to do to prevent such acts from happening again? Because, this person clearly can't mean that sanctions are as devastating as the worst terrorist act on US soil.

[KurtNYC]

4. I think it is just hyperbole. The media loves drama.

They need fans who say this kind of stuff or they don't have a follow up story to the sanctions. People with more modest reactions don't get quoted.

[barbtries]

3. clearly some of the people

enclosed in that culture will only come to realization kicking and screaming. that's an outrageous statement. still unwilling to consider who the victims are. i hope this person is a minority even in PA.

[eridani]

5. Reminds me of that Repuke whackjob who said that when some Dem committee chair

--wouldn't let his bill out of committee that he knew just how Jews felt in Nazi Germany. Then the Twitter assault--"My toilet backed up, so now I know just how people in New Orleans felt during Hurricane Katrina." and so forth.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. It's a fucking football team.

Christ.

[TahitiNut]

7. As long as the 'fans' think of THEMSELVES as "victims" ...

... it's just proof that the NCAA didn't do enough. As they shelled out their pieces of silver to empower the High Priests in the Church of Football, they helped create the conditions that allowed children to be raped and buggered on campus. Sandusky couldn't do it himself!! He was aided and abetted by the "faithful" even in creating and running a faux charity that served as a recruitment organization for Sandusky's predations.

[TalkingDog]

8. Maybe they'll start to get it when it feels like they've been raped by coach.

dumb fucks.

[gopiscrap]

9. What a croc it's shit statements like these that make me think

that they should have killed the football at PSU for about 5 years!!!

[Johonny]

10. Don't think it is reserved for Penn State Fans

When Bobby Knight finally wore out his welcome the "fans" were just as delusional. I think every major college sports team has these type of fans. As bad as they are, European Soccer fans seem even worse at times.

I like sports, but it is just a freaking game people.

[Brigid]

15. I'm from IN, so I remember Bobby Knight.

I never understood why he was worshiped in this state. Some still do. He got away with his crap for years before he was finally ousted.

[kwassa]

18. The player that Bobby Knight choked just died of a heart attack, at age 36.

just read the obit in the Washington Post.

[Brigid]

21. Heart attack? At age 36?

Wow. Wonder what caused it.

[Alduin]

11. What a whackjob.

The punishment wasn't severe enough. The whole football program should've been axed for the sex abuse cover-up.

The only victims in this are the victims Paterno allowed to get sexually abused.

I'm tired of the sports worship in this country.

[KamaAina]

12. Actually, 9/11 was Pennsylvania's 9/11

United Flight 93, believed to be headed toward the U.S. Capitol, crashed near Shanksville after a group of heroic passengers including Mark Bingham rushed the cockpit.

What an ass.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Exactly!

[malaise]

13. So is sports an opiate for some folks?

[petronius]

23. More like a hallucinogen, I'd say...

[Brickbat]

14. I get down on my knees and give thanks every day that Facebook and Twitter were not around when I

was young and stupid. It's bad enough I wrote some of those thoughts down in a journal.

[radicalliberal]

17. Look at the record of the reactions by many of the Penn State fans.

First, there was the riot. Were the students rioting because a pedophile coach was allowed to roam their beloved campus? No, they rioted simply because their little god JoePa was fired.

Then there was the Penn State coed whose brother was among Sandusky's victims. She had not let her classmates know. She reported to the media that she had had to listen to classmates joke about the victims. The proper noun "Sandusky" became a verb. How civilized is that?

Then there was the victim who was attending a high school elsewhere in the state. First of all, his coach betrayed his confidence and let others know that he would be testifying against Sandusky. Secondly, the mother of the victim soon told the news media that a grandmother of one of the Penn State players had walked up to her and said (I don't remember the exact words), "Now my grandson's football team is going to lose, and it's all your son's fault." (Very interesting. Sandusky had nothing to do with it? I guess her son must have seduced him.) Can you believe this complete lack of compassion? Her son had been raped by the pedophile coach, and all she cared about was her grandson's football team winning games? I'm a proud father. If I had been in the situation of the victim's mother, I would have been deeply hurt (not to mention extremely outraged almost to the point of having a nervous breakdown). And, finally, classmates of the victim started bullying him because they held him responsible for besmirching Paterno's image! He was driven out of school before he could graduate with the rest of his fellow seniors. So, the rape victim was victimized again!

And, finally, we have all the diehards rejecting the findings of the Freeh report.

The truth is that many fans and supporters of school sports are nothing less than enablers. These are the people who are the real sports haters. Supposed "snobs" don't have the power to even begin to bring down a college football program. As we've seen in the case of Penn State, that tragedy can be accomplished quite easily from within -- not by "egghead" professors or anyone else.

Sports fans, look among yourselves to find the true enemies of sport.

[Stinky The Clown]

24. +1

[radicalliberal]

25. Thank you!

I was afraid of provoking a fan.

[Stinky The Clown]

27. Anything posted on DU is bound to provoke someone

Post "I Love Mom's Apple Pie" and some peach lover will ask what you have against peach pie.

Welcom to DU.

[radicalliberal]

29. Thank you!

You're right. Anything posted is bound to provoke someone.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Oh wait, but we are not fixated with sports

I heard it here...

Yup, this is how crazy SOME fans are.

[derby378]

20. JoePa? NopePa!

Waaaah-waaaah-fucking-waaaah. Now go open your physics textbook that your parents paid for.

[Brigid]

22. Most excellent.

[radicalliberal]

26. Thumbs up!

[tularetom]

28. How would your life be affected if there was no Penn State football program?

I can honestly say that I doubt that I would ever know it if somebody didn't tell me.

I used to love to watch college football but recently (like the last 20 years or so) it seems that it's gotten to be nothing but show biz. If the entire NCAA Division 1 football program ended tomorrow I wouldn't care.