Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Penn state university scandal

The Penn state football team has always been recognized as a top notch school not only for the players but for the great coach they had Joe Paterno. This school is a well recognized school for football; it is up there with schools like Oregon, usc, Alabama, Stanford, ect. As of lately they are not recognized for their accomplishments on the field but for their embarrassing and humiliating scandal that is going on with the former defensive coach jerry Sandusky. Jerry Sandusky was Penn states defensive coordinator for years up until his termination in 2002 due to allegations of molestation of several young boys. These allegations arose in 1999 about jerry Sandusky molesting young boys not only at his home but on Penn state campus as well! There was nothing really supporting these allegations so they just forbid Sandusky to have children at the campus, he did not comply. More stories of this happening not only arose but also had eye witnesses and more boys that are coming out and stating that this happened to them. So Sandusky was terminated immediately and revoked of his position of defensive coordinator in 2002. Now almost 10 years later this story has reached its peak not only with Sandusky fired but another defensive coordinator and the great Joe paterno is fired. They fired them because the grand jury and alleged claims state that they “knew what was happening but did not report to authorities”. So now with the court case going thru and Sandusky facing jail time and paterno and their defensive coordinator gone the football team still has to play and produce on what they are known for, winning football games. Yes, it is hard and people could say it is hard or how could they without Joe pa but Penn state is still winning football games and from what we can see for those 2 hours that thousands watch is it in the back of their minds and they proceed to be great. With the pressure that is put on them for just alone being Penn state they have a worldwide known case hovering over them. The team is still winning games and doing great so that just shows what kind of team they are and what type of team Joe paterno had and raised throughout the years.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Weekend end football with the boys

Woke up this Saturday morning to a sweet text from my friend tom Blake, which you never get a text first from him so you know its important! He texted me and 10 other friends to come down to the Lansingburgh high school football field where we are all alumni to play some football. So we got there and played some football and we ended up all getting real hurt and sore from tackling and beating up each other. we played a few games through out the day and then we picked teams of 5 and played first to 5 win by 2 tackle football with the boys. My team was tom Blake, Jared fane, Dom Canty, myself, and Jake Schongar we ended up winning 6 to 4 and brought home a victory. The dark horse of that day was Jared fane. He shocked us all because he’s a kid that doesn’t play sports for school and ended up being lockdown on defense and running over kids on offense such as I wont name drop but the biggest guy there who’s in the senior game for my school Lansingburgh high school and Jared was doing it that day. On the other hand there was many hard hits and people getting hurt but I myself had a few sports center top ten one handed clutch snags that day. So Saturday was a good ole day of old fashion smash mouth football with the boys. yeahhhhh. So the next day after a grueling day of hard core smash mouth football, blood, sweat, and tears into Saturdays game I get news that were playing again, on the evening of Sunday. Pretty much the same people went and we played for another brutal smash mouth football game. That day was by far the most physical battle I have encountered since I quit troy patriots pop Warner in 2007. I ended up getting a swollen nose, internal bleeding, broke 4 fingers, lost a tooth, and also concussion like symptoms. I still wasn’t the worst there. My friend had do be brought out on a stretcher because his bone was out of the skin. Further more I didn’t come home with the victory that day, I was defeated. Not physically but I was mentally exhausted from this brutal smash mouth football weekend I endured. This grueling two days of football did not get me down. I rose up took a ice bath, 4 Advil, and a gentle nap in my kingdom/bedroom aka my thrown. This weekend we all plan to do this again and play same place same time and I want to get a black eye, that is my goal and what I look forward to for the weekend. So be there or be frail.

paranormal activity 3

I went to go see paranormal activity this weekend with a bunch of friends Saturday night at Latham Theater. This one was about the two girls from the first two paranormal activities. This one is about there two child hoods and how this ghost “Toby” followed them. It starts off with showing clips of the two girls older and just home videos. Then it goes back in time and shows home videos from when they are kids. The step dad is a wedding video maker so he has a lot of cameras. So strange things start happening and he decides to station up cameras around the house. He watches all the tapes over and over again and sees real strange things happening. He seeing objects forming, things moving, and later sees life forms of ghost that vanish. Does not know that the ghost Toby is after the younger daughter. In the mean time the step dad is researching all of these paranormal things and looking at these videos noticing that the ghost is showing more and more also his activity towards the house and the children are getting worse as well. For example the girls were running around the house then she runs into which looks like a wall but nothing was there and then out of nowhere the girls just gets picked up by her hair and is being dangled in the air. Then there’s another scene where the older little girl wants to play “bloody marry” with the step dads’ worker. So they walk into the bathroom and play then out of nowhere a ghost named Toby starts shaking the door and messing with them. Then the guy randy gets scratched real badly on his ribs. That was only the beginning. Then later in the movie creepier things begin to happen, the daughter begins to play with the ghost called Toby and in a scene shows that she was possessed. They hire a babysitter to watch the two girls and they caught on camera which looked to be a little boy under a sheet behind her then when she goes to look back the image of the boy disappears under the sheet! Later in the movie around the last 15 minutes of the movie it takes a turn of just straight weird. They stay at the grandma’s house to get out of the house. So they have fun at the grandmas and everything seems ok then the husband hears a noise in the middle of the night and woke up the wife. She takes one for the team and goes down to check on the noise but doesn’t come back. He goes to check it out and runs into images of women in windows, noises, every creepy thing you could imagine. He goes to check outside and he opens a door and sees a group of older women staring at him then they follow him and try to get him in the house. He is running around the house franticly and finds the daughter. They hide and he comes out and wants to find the wife, he finds her levitating and then she gets thrown onto him and he falls then the grandma comes in a looks at him then killed him by breaking his whole back and didn’t lay a finger on him. This movie was the craziest scary movie I’ve ever seen and watched.