During the Big Ten Conference Football Coaches’ Media Day this past Monday, Joe Paterno was asked numerous questions about his health and age. The questions about his health mainly stemmed from his recent bout with intestinal flu that forced him to cut back on some of his summer travel and public appearances, while the questions about his age were simply the usual.
Despite his still sharp wit and great sense of humor, the venerable 83-year-old grandfather still faces such questions with regularity, and seems to use such subtle attempts at painting him as “over-the-hill” as opportunities to display his sharp wit, as when he recently said, “What did Mark Twain say? The rumor of my death has been over-exaggerated.” Read the rest of this entry »
Josh Dhani
