Joe Paterno, a husband, a father of five, a former football player, and the Coach of Penn Sate. When you think of Joe Paterno what do you think of the most? What will Paterno be remembered for? Paterno was a small man in stature, with a giant resounding personality, and a smile that is only a fragment of a strong and powerful man within that small stature, who changed lives across America through a common ground such as football.
Paterno sat at the dinner table with many on Thanksgiving, as well as opened presence with several around America on Christmas. Through coaching and football as a forever strong and growing past time, Paterno is sure to live on and on thanks to social media and the ability to record games as well as have playbacks of those wonderful plays the Penn State team dished out on the football field.
Along with Penn State fans there is a family who will forever hold the Paterno torch and keep his memory flowing both in the sports world and within their own lives on a day-to-day basis. Some may never understand just how important sports are to America and around the world.
I know from my point-of-view that my coach during my high school years was a huge inspiration just like Joe Paterno is and will forever be in the lives of the Paterno family and his Penn State players, students, fans, and rivals.
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