JoePa Chooses A Quarterback

“Everybody poops, and if they don’t they’re an android, and should be destroyed.”

Was like, yep, heard of all of this in a presser

can we edit our surveys? I have thought of a couple more things I would like to list.

It would’ve been great to answer all the questions all shouty a’la JoePa, expressing my distaste for the Irish and computers and Likert Scale surveys. And for Bleacher Report, of course.

Each write in answer should have been filled with a link. I think Marchifornication, Joe Pa’s Chronicles, Inconsolable, and frosting steaks would explain why I use BHGP so much. I guess INPIYL2I should make the list too

I would like the JoePa Chronicles in leather-bound binding.

“We are….. THIRSTY” and then poured a cup of coca-cola out of his glasses for everyone.

that was hilarious.

my god, the rest of that answer was awesome, too

Just… wow

Don’t try taking quotes like that too literally. That’s Paterno speak for, “I think your question reflects poorly upon your intellect and your family. Here’s a stream of consciousness about Oklahoma”

LIKE THIS. YOU KNOW, LIKE THOSE CHAIN E-MAILS THAT WANT TO MAKE THEMSELVES MORE ATTENTION-GRABBING OR THOSE COMMENTS ON YOUTUBE FROM INSUFFERABLE FUCKNUGGETS OR LIKE HOW THOSE DAMNED IRISHMEN WRITE IN THOSE BOOKS ABOUT THEIR ONE SAINT OR THOSE TWO FROM BOSTON THAT FIGHT CRIME WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF GUNS, JUST LIKE THE AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR TWO SPEAKING OF WHICH HAVE WE BEATEN HITLER YET BECAUSE IF NOT I’D LIKE TO SEE IF ANY OF HIS OLYMPIC ATHLETES ARE INTERESTED IN TRANSFERRING SINCE OHIO STATE GOT THAT JESSE OWENS KID TO RUN END-AROUNDS LIKE PAUL CHANEY DID FOR IOWA HE’S IN THE NFL RIGHT?

AND HE WAS A METHODIST.

If we’re the same person, does that mean I only have to pay half as much in rent?

JVB could be baited into a mistake and throw a TaINT and completely derail the game. If Iowa allows Penn State to score on defense it could be a rough day. I was just starting to like this Iowa offense though, so I don’t want to deal with a rough day until maybe November.

I fear that we could make McGloin look like TCU-Andy-Dalton, or Bolden into Tommie Frazier.

/cue Rambler reply about how over-rated Frazier was.

I don’t know how the rest of PSU’s year shakes out, but I think this game could mean a lot to our team AND the fanbase going forward. I could see this game shaking out so many different ways.
I hope we win, but I could see PSU squeeking one out, or even running away with it. I just hope it’s a good game so the reactionaries don’t come out of the woodwork in (and around) Iowa City.

TO LOOK HIM IN THE EYE AND SEE THE FIRE THAT EMERGES FROM HIS LOINS

Plays the first series, first quarter, until he throws an INT, or the whole game?

And, for the most part, Penn State has had consistently good quarterbacks, or at least serviceable quarterbacks.

But Kerry Collins was possibly the best passer I have ever seen at the college level. He remains one of two or three PSU quarterbacks who had totally free reign at the LOS befoer plays. The only thing missing from his game was a good scrambling ability and when your offensive line has Marco Rivera and Jeff Hartings, well, that’s not a big deal. Moreover, he was very, very strong and possessed great footwork. My favorite football play ever was when Collins slipped down nearly to his knees, somehow recovered in a split second, and threw a perfect pass to the back of the end zone while he was being hit in the back by an Oregon defensive end. Collins was the most confident, the strongest, the smartest, the one with the most screwed-up childhood which explains his drinking problems, in short, considering our history, it will take another generation of Penn State football for another Kerry Collins.

I think it’s telling that Penn State’s best two year stretches came with Chuck Burkhart and John Shaffer under center. They were the very definition of game manager; meaning they were boring, but somehow effective. Penn State has produced two good NFL starters: Milt Plum and Kerry Collins. That’s two good NFL starters over more than about 80 years to choose from. We’re not necessarily incompetent at producing good college quarterbacks, but we have something of a tradition of winning a lot of games with quarterbacks who aren’t that great. And I fully believe that Penn State have gotten the most they could get out of Michael Robinson (toughest Penn State quarterback who ever lived; we taught to throw effectively enough), Anthony Morelli (basket-case with whom we still managed to win 18 games over two years), Daryll Clark (two-star recruit who evidently could not pass at all until his redshirt junior year), and Matt McGloin (former walk-on).

Joe Paterno recruited Jim Kelly to play linebacker. And you know what? Jim Kelly probably would have been a pretty good linebacker for us.

as seminal in American history. This is probably not on the level of Charlie Wilson dying.

Let’s not discuss him in the same air as the other two you mentioned. RIP Mr. Jobs.

Henry Ford and Walt Disney. That’s saying something. Rest in peace Mr. Jobs