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Originally Posted by GirlySports
You have to remember that he was born in the 1920s. He may understand rape but not raping boys. Even though his defense of the situation was inexcusable, some people from that generation just can't understand the concept of a man raping a boy. When the Penn State incident occurred, my grandfather heard the news and didn't understand it. A grown man raping a boy, who does that? Must be made up. Inconceivable.
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I don't buy this at all. For one thing, child abuse isn't exclusive to the 21st century. There is no way he had just "can't understand the concept".
The guy played and coached football for
70 years -- he had heard, if not seen, everything imaginable. Lord only knows what all those jocks were doing to each other in the name of "hazing" over seven decades.
Now maybe, as an old codger, he didn't understand the ramifications of such a crime (no doubt it was swept under the rug when he was a kid) but he couldn't have not understood this happens and is wrong.
And not to put too fine a point on it, or derail this thread entirely, but he was an Italian American who grew up in Brooklyn. My guess is he has an allegiance to a particular church that has significant experience in these matters.