You're going to. Oh, Welcome to human monsters. Joe Baternal was 23 years old when in 1950 he was hired to work as assistant coach at Penn State University.

He was brought on board by his mentor, Charles Rip Eagle.

Paternal was born on December 21st, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York.

Though he initially majored in law,

nearly manifesting a fate as my cousin Vinny

decades before the film's release.

Once he was given the position of coaching at Penn State,

he felt very much at home and came to regard professional sports coaching as his calling.

He had a long history with football, having played it on the streets of Brooklyn. He was so intense

and focused that once he went to catch a pass he ran into a tree and split his lip. He believed he was destined to do great things, regardless of the nature of the pursuit. As far as football went, he was the quarterback of his secondary

schools team whose record of victories would further buttress paternalist prospects. of No player under his leadership could ever question his instincts as a coach.

He knew the game intimately.

During his early days as an assistant coach, he lived in one of the dormitories among several of the football players.

He was the monitor, which meant that he was to report any night of carousing to Eagle. Eventually Joe became known as Joe the Rat because of his

proclivity for snitching. Joe didn't see it that way. The way he saw it, it was his job to ensure he got the very best out of his players.

As he put it, you can't be a nice guy and do this job. As time would tell, that

aphorism would become increasingly pervasive in his outlook, occasionally with wrong-headed decisions

and tragic outcomes. His father once said to him, whatever you do, make an impact. Don't waste your life just winning football games. Have an impact.

Joe Baternal's coaching and policies

of personnel management would make an impact, all right, a devastating one.

And the impact would be widely reported,

though it would have nothing to do with all the victories Penn State's football team achieved under

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