Joe Paterno Discusses the History of Hoops in His Own Special, Crazy Way

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↵That audio is slightly below HD quality, so in case you couldn’t make it out, JoPa says, “Everybody, they wanna talk about that it’s a black man’s game now. When I grew up, it was a Jewish game.” The rest is indecipherable. ↵↵This bit of old man brilliance was dropped on the world last night during ESPN’s broadcast of the Notre Dame-Penn State NIT semifinal game. According to Hugging Harold Reynolds, Bill Raftery’s response was: “Yeah a city game right?”↵Yes, that’s exactly what Paterno meant.↵

↵↵When will it be a white Protestant man’s game, you ask? So sorry, your time has come and gone. Don’t act like you’ve forgotten about the glory days, back in 1895 when Hamline was being shutdown by Minnesota’s School of Agriculture, 9-3.↵

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