Knowing the banality of evil was playing out in the Joe Paterno Penn State pigskin "win one for the Gipper" infamy..

Knowing the banality of evil was playing out in the Joe Paterno Penn State pigskin "win one for the Gipper" infamy.. The relentless need to win ,the scenario self destroying itself.
Human need for recognition in the spelling bee of life’s eleven.....the huddle, the line of scrimmage, moving the chains for a first down... a microcosm of the yardage between the goal posts Pass to the wide receivers.....hippity run thr left trackle and vulnerable defenders.
Hall of Fame credentials, being groomed by the pros, the fans going ga ga like rock stars getting their moment in the surreal baptism.. ....of high school athletes becoming jocks.and never heard of again,. the irony not taught in their blackboard class of X’s and O’s.
The body contact, sacking the quarterback unlike the Gipper metamorphosing as President of the Uniuted States ("Dutch") Part&parcel of humans falling into the loop, all for a 24 hour moment of thunderous puppy love, evolving amidst millions of spectators caught up in the vicarious Saturday spectacle of spectator "usiness"

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"Wht fools these mortals be" exhorted Mandrake the Magician, holding court. The Phantom,
his black panther licking its feet, Secret Agent X9, Jungle Jim, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant.
Bringing Up Father
" By God," cried Bringing up Father, setzing in his chair."Fireworks on the field, nothing in comparison with those in the courtroom. The jury deliberations off the charts,"said the Bringing up Father. "Doesn’t it transcend Hawthorne’s ScarletLetter, fellows?"
"Thinking on your feet, the presence of mind. Guilty on 47 of 49 counts, quarter backing a half century of a "hold that line, men and its pounding karma playing out.

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Meanwhle Joe and his brother in the schoolboy Catholic League of Bay Ridge (Brooklyn)rehearsing schemes thru formations, plays, pump fakes like the statue of liberty reverses.
Passing time.... where did it all go.
　
Growing up with peers, they could identify with... The learning curve short circuited, the Penn State bureaucracy bankrupt by a former defensive coordinator
Where in the football heavens can they justify the disenchantment of so many for so long? By one man’s disingenuous.

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"The curse of bigness" cried the "Win one for the Gipper" during six decades" in absentuio, the sound and fury of the Paterno-Penn State scenario playing out in a six decade of Time. Being assassinated by a Brutus Cassius like rouge, dissimilating in the showers with a disciple. Not wet behind the ears.
Pat O’Brien in his "Knute Rockne" persona exhorting his Fighting Irish eleven in the Notre Dame lockers."Win one for the Gipper (Ronald Reagan)
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Didn’t Joe scribble a response to the Major, near the end of his run. "Ah Brooklyn. How I remember," he wrote as his six decades of tenured prosperity was nearing its inevitability.
A lethal assault on our senses, the relative reality scene... the Trojan Bruin competitive juices post WW2, the Los Angeles Coliseum, the theater3000 miles away.
Cheerleading timeless and riveting card cues , megaphoned by H.M. Wammack, the cheerleader’s cheerleader in a Aristotle Socrates setting, the Ucla campus quad.

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"Who broke the loop? The karma ?The Paterno legacy broken by depravity of a defensive coordinator, hired by his surrogate father, coach Paterno.
Was Joe a victim of his own success? His Bay Ridge need to out rival his own Division one rivals.......
.Coach Jock Sutherland..QB Sid Luckman tackle guard Irwin Shaw.Pros, the likes of Ace Parker Pug Manders Bruiser Kinard running their routes at Ebbets Field.

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Where was the infamy during those moments of a depression, Pre World War 2?
Association in the street? Touch flag football? The collision of bodies? Wrath at losing? Self pity in discouraging play by play. Disappointment in not sharing space and time with hero worshiping team mates
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"A double feature"cried Bringing up Father.. "The curse of bigness"
and "The Banality of Evil" ,Hannah Arendt’s tour de force of moral cancer in Adolph Eichman’s psyche, the Third Reich’s diseased soul playing out..
June 25, 2012breathlessly joining the frey."Watching thbe jury deliberations, listening with my third ear to the cacophony of Coach’s legacy dragged thru the muddy yardage. for a penalty. A loss of yardage over a hen pecking half of century.