BEHIND BARS WHERE HE BELONGS

Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 of 48 counts of sexual abuse. His defense attorney Joe Amendola was not much help offering comments like this:

But Joe Amendola is a defense lawyer, representing Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator accused of raping children under his care. And Amendola seems to think he’s starring in a soap.
When asked Tuesday if he’d put Sandusky on the witness stand, Amendola said something astonishing.
“Stay tuned,” he teased reporters. “Come on, it’s like a soap, you have to wait and see.”
“Is it ‘Days of Our Lives’?” a reporter asked.
“I think it’s ‘General Hospital,’ ” Amendola said. And then he added, “Actually, it could be ‘All My Children.’ ”
“All My Children?” There were 10 boys who believed Sandusky cared about them when they were part of The Second Mile, Sandusky’s charity for at-risk youth. They were children once. As men, they testified against Sandusky. They testified that Sandusky put his hands on them and raped them in the showers at Penn State, groped them at university facilities, initiated oral sex at his home on sleepovers.
And Sandusky’s lawyer makes jokes about “All My Children.” 

or another bright eyed one like this:

Outside the courthouse, defense attorney Joe Amendola said: "Jerry's indicated he's disappointed with the verdict. Obviously he has to live with it."

Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/06/22/3237131/jury-finds-jerry-sandusky-guilty.html#storylink=omni_popular#wgt=pop#storylink=cpy

Either way his lawyer is going to file an appeal because he felt he didn't receive a fair trial. I think his attorney has run out of ideas to keep his client afloat in the sea of shit he created! 

However this is just the beginning of the storm that is going to come forth into HAPPY VALLEY. Let us not forget about the attempted cover up at Penn State by a few administration members and their pending court cases and the potential outcome for that bologna. I'm also quite sure the NCAA will have something to hand down to PSU once their investigation is complete. PSU was SUCCESSFUL in covering up Jerry "tickle monster" Sandusky and that is far more damaging than a pay-for-play player or receiving booster money or other perks. Or is it fair to say that PSU will not be sanctioned by the NCAA because it did not break any NCAA rules? Will the NCAA turn it's head and just say, "oh a two year probation will work"? Who knows? I do know that the number of pending civil suits currently against PSU is going to probably result in raising the cost of tuition but the Administration Board will just say that it's covered by blah blah blah insurance. Yeah......right......like you guys haven't lied before.

Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2012/06/22/3238086/amendolas-flippant-comment-adds.html#storylink=cpy

What? WHO? WhY? WTF? Oh....ok.

This past year my "sports card habits" have truly taken a back seat. Oh sure I picked up a few blaster boxes here and there but I have not spent nowhere near the amount of money I used to spend. Even at my local card shop- all he carries is Topps and I'm not impressed with what he has to offer. With what he carries in terms of products I can find it a lot cheaper by almost 20-30.00 at blowout cards with shipping! I'm even less impressed when he whips out the "Holy Beckett Bible" and looks at the high prices 97.8% of the time for any single cards that I pick out that I want or need. Then when it comes to commons he has to go by the "Beckett Bible" on that as well. I usually walk out at that point empty handed hoping he would catch on to the point of "no one goes by that anymore if you really wanna make a sale" but it seems I would have a better time getting felt up by TSA employees than any hopes of him dropping the whole "Beckett" is the gospel approach. Then he gripes as to why he hardly has any business.....GEE I WONDER.

There is one thing that really bothers me a liitle and that is UPPER DECK. A few weeks ago I took part in a 2010 UD Sweet Spot box break over at First and Goal and I was rather surprised at what I had pulled (actually what Dave pulled for me):

I know UD was (in trouble with the NFL: Read it here) making this a college themed set and by most standards I think they did an okay job. However the one thing I was not impressed by was the fact that the LeSean McCoy jersey swatch is green in color. That's funny considering Pitt's colors are blue and gold. So I posted a message on UD's facebook page asking as to why the color difference and I promptly received a reply of :

Upper Deck commented on their wall post.

Upper Deck wrote: "We can use NFL jerseys, just not images of team logos. This was a Eagles jersey."

On the back of the jersey card it states that this jersey was from a rookie photo shoot.



Hmmmm......on the front of the hobby box it states: 2010 NCAA football
???
I think it would be nice to actually use the college jersey swatch pieces in a product that is advertised as NCAA FOOTBALL and not use an NFL jersey swatch in a supposed NCAA product. Even my 9 yr old son looked at me confused and asked, "if it's a college card then why do they have a pro jersey on the card Dad?" Is it me or am I missing something?