herb (hurb) n. slang.Used by rapper esoteric, in the song herb. Insult synonymous with loser but can have multiple negative connotations. Pronounced “HURB” with no silent h. The term was popularized in upstate New York and spread from there.
Somebody wake Joe Paterno from his nap, he needs to be awake to accept his award as “Herb of the Week.”
Joe, you’ve completely lost control of your program, and we have the facts to prove it. Thanks to some excellent investigative reporting done by ESPN’s Outside the Lines, Joe Pa’s looks more like an old kook than a 300 plus win mastermind.
It’s no secret that at the beginning of the decade, Penn State was a cupcake game for most top-level programs. During this time, most fans and journalist were calling for Joe Pa’s head on a spike, then like magic he turned the program around, and suddenly no one wanted him to leave.So how did he do it? Well it’s simple really; he began to recruit guys with superior talent and minuscule character. In the past three seasons the Nitney Lions were an impressive 29-9 and 3-0 in Bowl games.
This seems all fine and dandy except that in 2007 alone 17 players were charged with 72 crimes and 9 players pleaded guilty. From 2002-2008 a staggering 46 players were charged with 163 crimes with 27 guilty pleas or convictions.
Yes when it seemed that Joe Pa was in charge, he was actually letting the inmates run the asylum.
So here is why you are the Herb of the week? When asked about these allegations, Joe Pa is quoted as saying, “I think you’ve done an awful lot of probing which bothers me that you might be on a witch hunt.”
Joe Pa continues to dance around the facts through the entire interview and at times seems like nothing more than a child. The report goes on to say that Paterno punished his team by making them clean the stadium after home games, but that he stopped the punishment with a couple games left in the season, claiming they had learned there lesson.
Look Paterno it’s obvious you’re too old to by in charge anymore, why don’t you retire and watch the games from a skybox.
Most of the time we are worried someone will fall on you during a game and crush your brittle bones to dust, now we have to worry that your ignorance will create a team of supper criminals, who can run a top speeds and tackle police in to the ground if they get in there way.
