Paterno (2018) - full transcript

Children were molested here!

And it's directly connected
to the football program.

Joe Paterno did know
that Sandusky

- was abusing boys in the shower.
- No, he did not!

I firmly believe, in his mind,
he did what he thought was right.

I think Joe Paterno's getting
thrown under the bus here a little bit.

He is not the attorney general,
he's the football coach.

He was the Godfather!

He was aware of what happened,
and allowed it to happen.

Joe! Where are you going?

- I'm going to the john.
- It's back here.



It's right across the hall
from where we just were.

Come on!

Oh, yeah.

I got turned around.

Yeah, it's just right over here
across the hall.

Penn State!

Penn State!

Eight inches of winter's
wrath expected,

as Joe Paterno seeks win number 409

to surpass all Division I
football coaches.

Take one.

Give me the stats
on Bolden and McGloin.

Go to mascot.

Joe Paterno up in the booth
again today.



That is certainly not his preference.

Joe is coaching
from the press box today

due to a hip injury sustained
in practice couple weeks back.

Let's go!

Guido. What's that?

Bobby, no shots of Joe in the booth.

Look, look.

- Busted.
- Number 31, please.

- Give me the camera.
- Nope, nope. I'm deleting.

No pictures of JoePa.

As college football seems
to change more rapidly than ever,

he remains the constant.

JoePa. Penn State.

At age 84, he is not
just still in the game,

in many ways, he is the game.

And with one more win,
another milestone.

And there's the kick!

Penn State offense will take over
on its own 35-yard line.

Ready in blue?

McGloin out of the shotgun,
heaving long. Complete!

We asked Joe Paterno,

how do you get that message
down to the sideline?

He writes it down. If I call 41 power,
I better see 41 power.

All right.
Split left, drag 46 strong.

Watch if they sub.
Check their angle if they do.

Catch 'em by surprise.

And the snow
continues to fall.

Redd takes on second down,

and they get another
Penn State first down at the 25.

Here at Penn State,
we're still at 0-0,

but the crowd could not be
more electric.

Everybody here is wondering
if JoePa can deliver

an historic 409th win
for the Nittany Lions.

And the tailback...

Bolden fumbles!
Illinois has got it.

Shit.

A straight fumble by
the sophomore QB.

Let's go, defense!

Get that motherfucker
out of this game right now!

Who the fuck was that?

They want Bolden out of the game.

- You want him out?
- No.

Keep him in.

Give me a shot of Bolden
on the sidelines.

End of the first half,
exactly where we started,

zero-zero.

Stupid mother...

- You goin' down?
- No.

By the time I get down
with this gimp,

halftime will be over.

Coach is staying up here.

Jay's comin' down.

Jay is on the move,
without his dad.

Jay in the locker room?

That's insane.

- They hate him.
- The team?

Yeah, he's a total doorknob.

Why do you think
Joe won't retire?

Oh, what?
Like if they wait long enough,

he'll turn into
head coach material?

You motherfuckers!
Hey, hey, listen to me!

You think you can get on the headset
and talk to me like that?

What are you guys,
a bunch of fucking...

Back off!

You were out there!
Show some respect!

- Come on.
- Give me a break!

Honey, you remember
Jerry Sandusky and Dottie.

Good to see you.
How ya doin'?

They need you back
on that line, Jerry.

- We miss you.
- They're doin' okay.

You still think
he's a pedophile?

- You know, nobody read your article.
- Fuck you.

It's been six months.

That popcorn kernel didn't pop.
Time to move on.

That's just my opinion.

Well, nobody's asking
for your opinion.

We got a heads-up
from the attorney general's office.

They're charging Jerry
in the next few weeks.

What, the business
with the shower?

They have more than one incident.

What with the same kid?

Multiple incidents
with the same kid.

- And multiple kids.
- Oh, Jesus.

All in our locker room?

I don't know.
Look, evidently,

you two might be named
in the indictment.

What the fuck you talkin' about?

Cynthia says they've got no case.

She's gonna get it thrown out.

We just need to ride it out.

That's easy for you
to say, Graham.

I am in this 100% with you.

Oh, we're indicted
alongside an accused pedophile

and you're...

Wow, I just hit the motherlode.

You're not taking a fall, Gary.

I will make sure
that doesn't happen.

- Hey, guys. Can I get a quick hit?
- Of course.

Ready one, take one.

I'm here with Penn State University
President Graham Spanier,

Vice President of the University
Gary Schultz,

and Athletic Director Tim Curley.

You are looking at
a possible 409 wins

for Penn State's own JoePa.

How does that feel?

Mara, we couldn't be more excited.

Ready one, take one!

If you want to get a sense
of how respected,

how revered, Joe Paterno is
here at Penn State,

look at this, a monument
they built to him

calling him a coach, an educator,
and a humanitarian.

- We are...
- Penn State!

- We are...
- Penn State!

- We are...
- Penn State!

And, hut!

Scheelhaase to throw
to the end zone,

touchdown!

- 3:32 to go in the third.
- Oh, shit.

It's Illinois who strikes first.

- Paterno on two. Standby two.
- Tighter on Paterno.

Push him, slow push him.
Ready, two? Take two.

Third and goal.

McGloin fumbles the football,

picks it up again,
sacked at the 15.

That is the sixth fumble of the day
by Penn State.

Fourth and goal,
the kicking unit comes out.

Fera's 30-yarder

is good!

Penn State's on the board.

It's seven-three.

On four.

Scheelhaase is gonna
run again on third and 12.

This time Penn State's ready

to force fourth down
for Illinois.

Take one.

3:05 to go.

Eighty yards for
the Penn State offense.

Nittany Lions need a touchdown.

What's the story with Moye?

Fractured metatarsal.

Doctor says he can go
if it's an emergency.

Well, this looks like
an emergency.

You got Moye?

Moye! Moye! Get Moye!

Moye, let's go!
Come on, come on, let's go.

The team needs you.
Joe needs you. Go! Go!

And McGloin, the junior
quarterback from Scranton.

McGloin throws, it's completed!

And who makes the grab
but Derek Moye,

coming back from a broken bone
in his left foot.

Now we're in business.
They're gonna crowd the line,

think we're gonna run,
let's go to Brown.

Take one. Ready, two...

Right back to Justin Brown!

First down, Penn State driving.

All right,
we got a game here, folks.

Everybody stay focused.
Let's do our jobs.

- Fourth down and sixth.
- Let's go!

Penn State needs to convert.

McGloin heaves it
to the end zone for Moye.

It is...

Incomplete!

But there are multiple flags
on the play.

Penn State's gonna get
another shot.

Nice.

- Time out, time out.
- Time out. Time out.

Time out. Time out.

All right, Coach.
What do you want to do?

Heavy right, 25 counter.

That's good.
Heavy right, 25 counter.

- Come on, baby.
- Heavy right, 25 counter.

All right. Heavy right,
25 counter. Let's go.

A minute-20 to go
in the fourth quarter,

down by four, Penn State needs

to get into the end zone
for the first time today.

McGloin handing off Silas...

He's in the end zone!

Touchdown, Penn State!

With a minute-eight to go,

the Nittany Lions are into
the end zone.

- An 80-yard touchdown drive.
- Yes! Yes!

Penn State hoping to
close it out

and give Joe Paterno
win number 409,

making him the winningest coach
in the history of Division I football.

Five seconds.
42-yarder to tie it.

No good!
Penn State wins!

10-7.

Win 409 for Joe Paterno

as head coach at Penn State...

Sara Ganim.

Holy fucking shit.

Criminal charges,
Gerald Sandusky.

Forty counts.

Involuntary, deviant sexual
intercourse,

person less than
16 years of age.

Indecent assault, person
less than 16 years of age.

- Aggravated indecent assault...
- Person less than 13 years.

Jesus...

What the fuck.
Where'd it go?

- Reload. Reload...
- I'm reloading.

- Is it the computer?
- I don't know.

Give me a second.

Every other site's working.

They pulled it.

- Mike.
- Hey, man, are you home?

- No, I'm on my way.
- Are you driving?

She told me
I could take the car.

- I didn't...
- No, it's fine. Listen.

I need you to pull over
for a second.

Can you do that?

Okay, look. The charges
against Jerry went up online.

They disappeared
like a minute later,

which means somebody probably
posted them by mistake,

but a lot of people saw it,
so...

It's happening now.
They're gonna arrest him.

Probably tomorrow morning,
Sunday at the latest,

and they're gonna have to post
the grand jury presentment

when they're ready
to bring him in,

so the whole story's
gonna be there.

It's public.

And I won't say your name.

May use your initials,
but...

It's happening.

Aaron?

Aaron?

Hey, buddy.

Hey.

- Hey, Joe.
- Yeah.

You wanna have dinner with
Don and Shirley on Sunday night?

No.

Come on,
they want to celebrate the win.

Well, let 'em go celebrate
by themselves.

- So, no?
- Well, I...

All right, let's see
how it plays out on Sunday.

Well, I've got a board
meeting in Philly.

Maybe after a day by himself,
he'll want to be, you know...

You asked me a question.
Don't ignore the answer.

Oh, hang on one second,
Sheryl.

I got Scotty on the other line.

Hey, Scotty.
I'm on the phone.

- Ma, I need to talk to Dad.
- Okay.

Joe, call Scotty when I'm off.

I'll call him when I finish
the practice script.

Scotty, he's gonna call you back
when he's finished

with the practice scripts,
okay?

No, no, no, no!
Ma, I gotta...

Yeah, Sheryl.
Special Olympics...

Oh, no, it's a 5K.

Come on.

You gotta be kiddin' me.

We saw the charges, but
was that one victim or two victims?

Just tell me this.

When's the guy gonna
get arrested?

Isn't he considered
a flight risk?

John says there may be somebody else
named in the indictment.

Jessie, is someone
other than Jerry Sandusky

named in the indictment?
Jessie?

Hey, it's Charlie Thompson
at the Patriot-News, for Bill.

No, I can wait.

Somebody needs to call
Graham Spanier!

I'll do it.

What'd he say about
your first article?

Nothing.
Him and everybody else.

Six months went by.
It was like I wrote about a yard sale.

Ask Spanier if he thinks
he's gonna get fired.

They're not gonna fire
the president of Penn State.

Jerry hasn't worked there
in a decade.

Bill, when are we gonna see
this grand jury presentment?

You're either charging the guy
or you're not.

Sara...

It's up.

Aaron...

I don't want you to read it.

Aaron.

Everything's on there.

It's not gonna change
anything...

You said I didn't have
to tell you.

With the grand jury
and the cops...

It's on the computer, Aaron.

Your mother can't be the only person
in the country not to read it.

Looks like Victim One
was 11 when it started.

Sandusky performed oral sex
on him more than 20 times.

Sandusky also had Victim One
perform oral sex on him one time.

Jesus. Touched Victim One's
penis with his hands.

Victim One did not want
to engage in sexual conduct

with Sandusky,
knew it was wrong.

And Victim Two?

Ten years old.
Anal intercourse.

Shit.

- Hello? Dawn?
- Hi.

I'm gonna be in your area
in a couple hours.

Should I stop by?

I don't know.

Well, how about
I head that way,

and then if it doesn't
feel right, you can just...

You can send me back.

Dawn?

Dawn?

Victim One's mom.

Call me from the car.

We'll finish the piece
while you drive.

The indictment alleges

that former Penn State coach
Jerry Sandusky

used The Second Mile,
the charity he founded in 1977,

- to get access to and molest boys...
- Okay.

Many of whom were vulnerable
due to their social situations.

That's great.

Many of the alleged incidents
happened in the Lasch building,

the football building
on Penn State campus.

With football season
well underway now,

for many fans, it doesn't get
any bigger than Penn State.

But the case against one of
that team's long-time coaches

is unfolding, and quickly.

Charged with abusing several boys
at a program he'd started,

former coach Jerry Sandusky,
once heir apparent

to the legendary Joe Paterno...

is charged with
sexually abusing eight boys.

And now two high-ranking
university officials,

the athletic director
and a vice president,

face charges in court,
accused of looking the other way

after several mothers
came forward.

One mother told reporter
Sara Ganim

she feels betrayed by Penn State,

as details emerge
of what she sees as a cover-up,

saying one of her sons
complained about Sandusky,

but no one listened.

Penn State forever,
molder of men.

Well, where is that
integrity now?

If these allegations are true,
then this goes to the very top

of the athletic department
at Penn State,

and one would have to
think that there

would have to be
some kind of housecleaning.

They do go conservative...
is he gonna make it pay off?

I can't believe it, ya know?
And then on top of it,

they indicted
Tim and Gary too.

- For what?
- For what.

For perjury,
for lying to the grand jury.

For failing to protect children.

They testified in front of the grand
jury just like you did, Dad.

You read it, right?

You read the grand jury
presentment?

No. They indict me?

- No.
- So?

Wait, are you...

Okay, I am going to print this
thing out so you will read it.

I got Nebraska a week
from today.

They're seven-and-one,
just so you know.

Spanier.

Put me in the ground.

Hey.

Hey, Scott. Got something
I want to run by your dad.

Yeah, come on in.
He's watching Nebraska.

How do they look?

Good is how they look.

Northwestern's up by four,

but they're not gonna hold it.

All right.

The allegations about
a former coach are troubling,

and it is appropriate that
they be investigated thoroughly.

With regard to
the other indictments,

I wish to say that
Tim Curley and Gary Schultz

have my unconditional support.

I have complete confidence
in how they have handled

the allegations about
a former university employee.

I am confident the record will show
that these charges are groundless,

and that they conducted themselves
professionally and appropriately.

Why do you say that,
about Gary and Tim?

'Cause it's true.

Grand jury doesn't think so.

You think that's right?

Well, what do I know?

But I wouldn't go stand
in front of the bull waving a flag.

This school should look
like we give a hoot, you know?

We want everything run down
until we know what actually happened.

That's a huge slap in the face
to Gary and Tim.

They were protecting the school.

Do what you want.

You're asking me, I'm sayin'.

I think it's a stupid
thing to say.

Well...

I'll look at it again.

Okay. You need anything,
give me a call.

Hey.

- Yeah?
- Hey, Jay.

Just bending your dad's ear.

Latet anguis in herba.

- What does that mean?
- It's Virgil.

- Means you're gonna be fine.
- Northwestern's up by four.

- That's not gonna last.
- Yeah.

Thanks for stopping by, Graham.

See you soon.

Oh, boy.

What was that?

Box of rocks.

He wants to be
everybody's friend.

He's gonna get himself fired.
Watch.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

There's peppers and provolone
on the stove. Heat it up.

- Yeah, I talked to Guido.
- Yeah.

He thinks this is gonna be
more than just a sports story.

You think? Did you read it?

The presentment? No.
I just got here.

Yeah. What's the hurry?
The guy only fucked eight children.

- What is with the talk?
- Hey, hey.

Just, somebody other than me
has to read this thing.

Oh, is that what you're doing?
Sittin' around reading everything?

Can you take this someplace
else, guys?

I'm trying to work here.
Anybody care?

You got your own homes now,
ya know.

Well, what goes on in
major college sports programs are,

they become little fiefdoms,

and the college coach
becomes all-powerful,

and Joe Paterno is like a god
on that campus.

He's the leader. I understand
there's a university president,

there's an athletic director,
but we know who's running Penn State.

It's JoePa.

Mailbox. One.

You have one new message.

Sara, it's Dawn. Can we...

I'm sorry,
let's do this tomorrow.

We're pretty wrung out
over here. Aaron's...

Why don't you come by
in the morning. Okay? Thanks.

- Where's Juliet?
- Food?

Hey!
Did you just get here?

- Yeah.
- Liam, Mindy. Sara. She graduated.

- She's gonna crash here a few nights.
- What up?

She's the one that got
Sandusky arrested.

You did?

No. No, no. I didn't.

He's fucking disgusting.
It's sick.

Wait, she's the cub reporter,
right?

Does anybody call you Cubby?

No.

For 67-year-old Jerry Sandusky,
a jubilant career

at Penn State has dwindled
to a perp walk and prosecution.

A Penn State graduate
team assistant

allegedly witnessed
a 2002 rape by Sandusky,

involving a 10-year-old boy
in a shower

at Penn State's football facility.

The assistant told Coach
Paterno about it,

and Paterno is said to have
told Athletic Director Tim Curley,

and university official
Gary Schultz.

Hi, I'm Sara Ganim,

and I work with
the Harrisburg Patriot-News.

I was wondering if
I'd be able to ask...

No. I'm not talking to anybody.
Thank you.

You're Gary Schultz' assistant?

- Right? Okay...
- Get off the property!

- I just wanted to...
- Get off the property!

- Okay, I'm getting off.
- Not fast enough!

Okay! Fuck.

- Hello?
- Hey. So...

After two days of complete
and utter silence,

the national news finally noticed
we published a story.

You got time to talk to CNN?

Yeah, I just need a minute.

- I've got somebody who's really excited.
- How dare you!

To disturb my wife like that!

The Pennsylvania attorney general
says that Coach Paterno

is facing no criminal charges
because he followed the law

by quickly telling what he knew
to his superiors.

What she didn't say was if
he had a moral obligation to do more.

Steve Garban's pretending
he's not home.

No one from the board
of trustees will answer our call.

- Hello?
- Mother of Christ.

Put out a damn statement
so we can be through with this already.

We should have done it six months ago
when it first came out in the paper.

People need to hear from you.

This is not a smart move, Guido.

I'm not a judge, but...
There's a legal process happening here.

Okay. All right.
A legal process happening here.

- So...
- Legal process.

Oh, my God...

Ma?

Mommy?

What's wrong?

- Mommy?
- It's shocking, if it's true...

- You okay?
- We're deeply saddened...

When I heard what I heard,
I reported it right way...

To?

Tim and Gary.

He did what he was
supposed to do.

- Right. In 2001.
- What?

2001? Yeah.
I told the grand jury.

Right, and you should say
what McQueary told you, right?

An assistant coach informed
me that...

An assistant coach informed
me what?

McQueary couldn't put his...
a sentence together.

He couldn't catch his breath.
He was all over the place.

So, he told you that
they were having sex?

No, he didn't...

He didn't know what he saw.
Come on.

They were touching maybe.
Who knows?

All I know is,
what he saw upset him.

That's...

He was rattled.

Ya know? Something happened.

So why does the presentment
say anal rape?

- It says that?
- Didn't you read it?

- It says anal sex.
- Oh, well, you're the lawyer.

There's no such thing as consensual
anal with a 10-year old...

He was distraught!
He didn't make sense!

It was clear whatever he was talking
about was inappropriate.

I got that.

So, I called Tim,
and I called Gary.

And if it's true...

I get everybody's upset.
We're upset.

But meanwhile, you gotta...

You gotta let a legal
process unfold...

Dad, did you know

anything else about Jerry?

What do you mean?
Why are you saying that?

- I just told you.
- I don't know, but...

- What about Jerry?
- When you read it, you can see

the guy had a clear problem.
Ya know? Maybe...

I didn't read the thing.

You told me about the thing,
Scott,

and you told me again.

- I know. I'm just saying...
- So I know.

So, you're badgering me.

You're badgering me
I don't like it.

I got a game to prepare for.

That's what's important
to me now, Scott.

Whatever these things are...

People think
that you knew about all of it.

- But I don't care what people think!
- 2001. 1998.

JoePa runs the school.
How could he not know?

Well, I didn't know. I don't know
what they're talking about.

What am I, omniscient here?

Well, yeah, that's what
they think you are.

- And they're writing stories.
- What about rumors?

There's something funny
about this Jerry guy.

Nothing like that?

What happened to you?

You're telling me about a rumor?

A rumor?

What's that?

Is that why I sent you
to law school?

Gossip like that,
what it does to people?

You have any idea...
What about your Uncle George?

How come he wasn't married.

Everybody said,
something's wrong with him.

Whatever this is,
I don't understand it.

It's garbage!

Jerry Sandusky. What is he?

I thought he was...

He was unfocused
and such a pain in the butt,

but yes, kids were...

He had kids around all the time.

These were hopeless,
helpless, lost causes.

He started the biggest charity
in the history of this state.

Every heavy hitter, every
high roller donating every week,

checks coming in by the dozens.

I never saw anything like it.

He's honored by the president
of the United States.

I got a statement.

Sue and I

have devoted our whole lives
to helping young people.

The fact that someone
we thought we knew

might have harmed young
people like this,

if it's true...

Well, we were fooled,

along with a whole
bunch of professionals

who are trained
in this kind of thing.

And we're sorry.

We are grieving...

For all of them.

We'll release that.

That's the end of it.

I have practice.

Here to say a few words

about our guest of honor
Jerry Sandusky

is his long-time colleague,

mentor, and friend
of over 30 years,

head coach of Penn State
Nittany Lions, Joe Paterno.

Jerry and Dottie,

they always had kids,
they adopted kids,

they fostered children,

all the time, everywhere I look,

there was kids,
kids kept appearing.

I didn't know
what was goin' on.

I said, what are they doing?

I mean, I thought
they were their kids, right?

Little did I know, it turns out,

Jerry started this charity.

This wonderful thing, ya know?
All these kids...

I had no idea. I had no idea...

I had no idea.

All these kids, all these kids,
all these kids...

Hundreds, hundreds of children.

- Thousands.
- Thousands!

Thousands! Thousands!

That's awesome.

Okay, so we'll start with Matt.
He's working out a little bit.

Watch his knee.

You've gotta be kiddin' me.
These guys are fucking animals.

All right, come on, guys.

Closed practice.
Let's go outside, come on!

JoePa's gonna give

his regularly scheduled
press conference tomorrow.

Is this the locker room
where the incidents took place?

Could we just get
a couple shots...

Good day to you, sir.
All right, come on.

Outside. Outside, please.

Tom, could we get a lockdown
on the last building, please?

Thanks.

I have no idea why Mike McQueary
is still on this staff.

He was a 28-year-old man,

and he saw an older man
commit a sexual act

against a 10-year-old,
and did nothing about it.

He walked away, and went home,

and talked to his dad about it.

And then decided to see
Joe Paterno the next day.

All right, guys, let's go!
Ladder!

We're doing what
we were born to do.

Sara?

Are you Sara Ganim?

I'm Hugh Lewison, with NBC.
Do you have a second?

Oh, I don't. I'm sorry.

I got places to go.

Just two seconds. I just need
a couple of phone numbers.

- Do you mind?
- Oh, yeah, no.

I have a piece that's got to run
in, like, 10 minutes,

so I got to get to
my interview.

Who are you interviewing?

- I'm sorry.
- Look, I just drove

four hours to find you.

You're the only goddamn person
who's followed this thing.

Can you tell me why I can't
find a police report from when

McQueary reported Sandusky
in the shower with the kid in 2001?

I know,
it's a real head-scratcher.

Do you have it?
You don't have to show it to me.

- Just tell me if you've seen it.
- Read the article I wrote.

There's no police report
from 2001.

But the indictment says
there was an investigation.

No? Can you just nod
or shake your head?

I'm being followed
by this guy from NBC.

Forty news organizations
want to interview you.

- He's still following me.
- Where are you going?

To interview the mom.

You better lose him.
Keep him away from the mom.

This is not Starsky and Hutch,
David.

Go away!

Thank you.

- Gary?
- Oh, hey.

- Are you okay?
- Yeah. Fine.

They're gonna bring me
in today,

but I don't think
they're gonna keep me.

To jail? Oh, God, Gar.

Everything's gonna be fine, Kim.

Hey, listen, Kim.
Could you do me a favor?

Anything.

- Go into my office...
- Okay.

- To the desk.
- Yeah.

Unlock the bottom drawer.

You see the transition file?

Yep.

Could you bring that
to the house?

Of course. Anything else?
You want some food?

No, no, no. I'm good.

Okay, Gar. Call me
if there's anything at all.

Yeah. Will do. Bye.

No, no, no! Don't hit yourself.
Hit him!

Set!

- They're gonna move us.
- How come?

It's not safe.

Since it came out,
people know who he is.

You don't have to...

Aaron sleeps on the couch
every night.

Can't sleep in a bed
since Jerry's...

I don't know what
you need to ask anymore.

It's all on the thing online.

He didn't want me
to read it, but...

Was there anything
that surprised you?

I didn't want her to know
the parts with, like...

I was never in the room
when he told the whole thing.

Not even at the grand juries.

I wanted to.

I mean...
It was so hard for him.

He fainted, threw up...

- Mom.
- He says testifying was...

Can I say?

He says the grand jury
testimonies

were the worst things
he's ever had to do in his life.

Other than...

I am sorry you have
to talk about this again...

It's bullshit, okay?

Jerry's already out.

The judge was a volunteer at
The Second Mile. Sent him home.

Unsecured bail.

It's been three years.

From the first day,
it's the same thing...

Shit. I'm sorry.

Let me just try
and silence this thing.

What were you saying?
The first three...

It's been three years?

We reported it at the school
as soon as he said somethin'.

We went to the principal,
Karen Probst.

Write her name down.
Fucking bitch.

You know what she said?
She told me, when I said,

call the police,
that man touched my kid,

she said, I think you should
go home and sleep on it,

because I'm not sure this
is something you wanna do.

You're very emotional.

She put in a cover-your-ass call

to Child Services once
we were already there.

If we hadn't raised hell,

she would have pretended
the whole thing never happened.

Oh, that Jerry...
He's got a heart of gold.

Everybody loves him.

He's not going to jail.

I'm just gonna be another kid
on the front page

in the newspaper with a big liar
stamped across his head.

Look, I don't know how
this case is gonna turn out,

but I can tell you
that right now people look at you

as the first person that's had
the courage to come forward

and stand up to a really
intimidating public figure.

And because of what you did,

now five other guys have had
the courage to come forward

and do the same thing.

There's no grand jury investigation
without you.

You started this whole thing.

And if you didn't say anything,
Jerry would still be hanging out

at Second Mile with a bunch of kids,
trying to pick his favorite.

Bobby, go find Kate.
Go! She's at dance.

That's Aaron's brother.

He's 10.

Yeah, that's how old I was when...

So...

just keep it
to football tomorrow,

at the press conference.

Yeah, I know.

Did you read it?

No, I didn't read it yet, Jay.

How am I gonna read it?

After Nebraska,
I haven't had the time.

You know, Scott gets worked up.
Your mother gets worked up.

That's not my job. Understand?

Or your job.

We don't get worked up.

You get hysterical every time
your team gets attacked,

that's a short career.

You have to wonder right now
where Joe Paterno's head is.

So much is swirling around him.
And, you know,

maybe there's a little bit
of a disconnect,

maybe he doesn't fully understand
the gravity of what's going on,

he's talking about beating
Nebraska on Saturday.

Good hit, good hit.

Is Coach Paterno
under investigation as well?

No, he's not regarded
as a target at this point.

But somebody needs to question

what I believe is the moral
requirements

for a human being that knows

that sexual things
that are happening to a child.

Now whether you're
a football coach,

or the university president,

or the guy sweeping out
the building,

I feel that you have
a moral obligation to call us.

Commissioner, thank you
so much for being here.

I know you spent 30 years
with the FBI,

you say you have never
seen anything

like the alleged sexual abuse
allegations in this case,

and you say you want to know
why the police were not called.

I don't want to criticize
Joe Paterno or anybody else.

But any human being who has
this kind of information,

or who has knowledge
of child sexual abuse,

should call us...

Nobody wants to ask why Mike McQueary
didn't call the police.

I mean, he was the one who was there.
He's a grown man.

He comes into my kitchen.

Dad went to who he thought
was the police.

Gary ran the campus police.

Right, Scotty?

Gary also knew about that thing
in 1998 and did nothing about it.

Wait, what thing in 1998?

There was another kid, Ma.

In the shower,
in the Lasch building.

That kid told his mom,
his mom called the cops.

The cops got Jerry over
to the kid's house

while they were
in the other room listening.

While Jerry's there?

- Yes.
- Yeah.

And the mom says, you can't do this
ever again with anyone,

and Jerry says, I can't promise that
with the cops listening.

They don't arrest him. They just say,
don't shower with little boys.

- That was the end of it.
- How was that the end of it?

Because all they had
was showering and hugging.

- Not a crime.
- A hug goodbye?

No. Naked, wet hugging.

And that's not a crime?

Because the DA, for some ungodly
reason, decided that it wasn't.

Well, why isn't anyone talking about
the DA's moral obligation?

Did Gary tell you
about that one too?

Why do you think the police
commissioner is trying to say

that Joe has got a moral
responsibility?

It's because they missed it.

You know what?
Everybody missed it. Everybody!

How come no one's talking
about the frickin' Second Mile?

Those idiots,
they were told what happened,

and nobody decided to say, hey,
maybe we should keep this guy away

from the hundreds of little boys
we got running around?

What was Gary thinking?

Listen to this.

Schultz, equivocating
on the definition of sexual

in the context of Sandusky
wrestling with

and grabbing the genitals
of the boy...

I mean, who equivocates
on grabbing a kid's genitals?

Okay, let's go.
Let me have that thing.

- Oh, great. Thank you.
- Of course.

Is there anything else
I can do?

No. No you better go.

You don't want 'em
getting interested in you.

Yeah, I grabbed another file
in case you need it.

Oh, great. Thanks.

Okay.

An hour shower?

Same as what happened
three years ago in '98.

Why does the man
still have keys to the building?

It's part of his retirement deal.

Just tell the man he can't come
in here with little boys.

Cops told him that
the first time it happened.

Didn't seem to make
much of an impression.

Sit down with the guy
and explain that,

under no circumstances, can he come
into university facilities with a child.

No workouts.
No goddamn showering.

All right,
so we talk to the charity,

we talk to Jerry,

and we call Child Welfare.

And they will file it
with the police?

Yeah.

This is a fucking nightmare.

Will the court officer
now read

the charges against
Gerald A. Sandusky?

Sandusky performed oral
sex on Victim One

on a number of occasions,

had Victim One perform
oral sex on him,

gives Nike shoes,
ice hockey equipment...

overnight at his residence,
basement, bedroom,

performed oral sex on him
more than 20 times.

Victim Four.
Attend the pre-game banquet,

sits with Sandusky
at the coach's table...

hotel room, the Alamo Bowl...

inserts his erect penis
into Victim Four's mouth.

Attempted to penetrate
Victim Four's anus

both with a finger
and his penis.

Holding the boy against a wall
performing oral sex.

What is sodomy?

Oh, come on.

Achilles and Patroclus?

Nessus and Uralus.

What does he know
about these perverted things?

Joe's having a press
conference today,

so if we could do this
as quick as possible,

I'd like to get overthere.

Do you have a hairbrush
or a comb?

- In your bag?
- No. No.

- Lipstick?
- No. No.

Huge bag and you don't
have anything.

- What?
- Okay.

What do we think about this coat?
I think it's gonna strobe.

- Yeah. Let's take it off.
- Take the coat off?

I've got a yellow shirt on
I can wear.

You know what?
Let's keep it on.

- The coat on?
- Button up.

Button up.

Yeah, it's gonna help you.

Legendary head coach
Joe Paterno, getting ready

for what may be the toughest
press conference of his life today.

These will be his first
on-camera statements

since this scandal broke, and the stakes
are incredibly high for him.

That statement we put out
the other day, it had no impact.

We do it today, we do it head on,
on camera, and then it's over.

All right, McQueary told me
he saw something inappropriate,

so the next day
I called Tim...

- Wait, wait...
- And he came over.

- You called him when?
- I called him the next day.

It was Saturday, yeah.

I got the call, I waited
till the weekend was over

'cause I wasn't gonna
ruin his weekend.

- He's got kids.
- Don't say that.

Scott asked a question.

Well, do you want me to lie?

You can't say that
you heard about child abuse,

and then you waited a couple days
so you didn't ruin someone's weekend.

Presumably the rape
ruined the child's weekend.

- Mary Kay.
- Put it this way,

you hear about
someone diddling my kids?

Don't wait the weekend!

She's right, she's right.
You can't say it, okay?

- So, what do I say?
- Okay, this should be football.

Right? It's a weekly
football press conference!

What are we doing?
We're sittin' around...

They're standing out there.
There's people...

Everybody wants to know
what happened.

That's right.
You do it, and then it's done.

- Right.
- Okay. Sure.

So, where were we?

Did you call the police?

But it is a press conference, Scott.
It's not a deposition.

It's gonna be a lot worse than
a deposition, Dad, this is the media.

They got nothing to eat
but you.

So the press is going
to ask you

why didn't you pick up
the phone yourself?

Michael McQueary was a mess
when he talked to me.

What did the kid
say happened?

I didn't talk to the kids.
I talked to McQueary.

Wait, so...
so who talked to the kid?

- Was it Gary?
- I don't know who talked to the kid.

I don't know. Who knows?

Was he okay?

- Okay, who?
- The child.

I don't think the press
is gonna get into this, hon.

No, I'm asking, Guido.

I mean, the kid knows what happened.
What did he say?

I think nobody talked
to the kid.

They didn't find the kid.

I don't, I...

I don't understand. Wait.
How could they not find the kid?

They could just ask Jerry.

Well, they didn't look for him.
It was an oversight.

Oversight.

So did you ask about the kid and
they just never followed up?

Mary Kay.

- Did you ask?
- What are we doin' here?

Did you ask?

This is more than
a football legacy.

This is about people,
and if we can't protect our kids,

we, as a society,
are pathetic.

- Gar. It's Kim.
- Hey.

- You back home?
- Yeah.

Good. You okay?

Yeah, super.
Listen, Kim, I really...

I made a copy

of the file in the envelope.

- Okay.
- I'm sorry.

- It's okay.
- It's habit, you know?

I don't take anything
from the file without a copy.

Yeah, of course.
Of course.

I gave you the original, Gar.
I shouldn't have done that.

It's fine, Kim.

I'll bring 'em back
in the morning.

No, they won't let you
in the building.

I'm concerned about
hiding evidence

if the originals are gone.

There's, like, fingerprints
and things.

They look into all that.

What if they ask me about it?

I don't know, Kim.
Just tell 'em the truth.

Okay. Okay.

Thanks.

Look, I met with Joe.
We talked about it, and...

To go behind Jerry's back
to his own organization

and the Department of
Child Welfare

before we've even looked
at the guy face-to-face

and asked him what happened

seems...
I don't know, inhumane.

What happened to calling
Child Welfare?

And fucking Second Mile?

Look, we just gotta
ask the guy what happened.

I don't know,
maybe it's a misunderstanding.

Graham agrees. Joe agrees.

- Who's driving?
- Come in my car.

I'll drop you home
after practice.

There's a couple of reporters
out there.

Keep 'em to the side
so we don't run anybody down.

- Yeah.
- What do you mean?

Why aren't they
at the press conference?

Probably wanna follow
you there.

Hey, you can moon 'em
on the way.

Scott, that's not
appropriate right now.

Says who?

Guys, they don't want to do it
right now. The press conference.

We got practice in 40 minutes.
It's now or never.

They don't want a press
conference today.

- It's canceled.
- Without my permission?

Yeah.

Due to the ongoing
legal circumstances

surrendered around the recent
allegations and charges,

we have determined
that today's press conference

cannot be held
and will not be rescheduled.

We will not have any additional
comment on this matter.

Ever?
It won't ever be rescheduled?

Don't you guys feel you have
an obligation to talk about this?

Crime & Punishment,
new developments

in the child sex abuse scandal
that has rocked

Penn State's legendary
football program.

Today a regular weekly
news conference

with Penn State's head coach
Joe Paterno was canceled.

It would have been his first
since the scandal broke.

Reporters were waiting
when he left practice.

Guys, you got good questions,

but I can't...
I can't answer them.

Sorry. I just can't do it.

So far,
two top university officials,

Timothy Curley and
Gary Schultz,

have been charged with
failing to report

allegations of abuse that
occurred on university property.

Sara Ganim, a reporter
at the Patriot-News.

Sara, you spoke to two
of the moms of the victims

allegedly sexually molested
by Sandusky.

What did they tell you?

I mean,
both of them are extremely...

Feeling extremely let down
and betrayed by Penn State,

and those feelings
are coming from the charges

levied against Tim Curley
and Gary Schultz,

and then, the...
moral allegations basically...

I hope you can hear me,

there's loud airplanes
flying above us...

Against Joe Paterno
and Graham Spanier...

And one mom in particular,

her son came forward in 1998,
was not believed,

and they feel awful that
other children

were victimized because
her son was not believed.

The university canceled
Paterno's news conference

just minutes before
it was scheduled to begin,

and the school freely admits
that the reason is because

of the child rape scandal
marring Paterno's program.

Calls for Paterno's resignation
are really starting to pile up.

I think it's time to call somebody.
We need tactical advice.

- Like a crisis guy.
- Perfect. Who do you got?

- I don't know.
- Let me google it.

You're googling it?

- Yeah.
- Well, that's great.

We're a major university

in the middle of a very serious
public relations debacle,

and you're solving it on Google.

- Joe!
- Is that what I want though,

a public relations spin?

PR is marketing. We already got
a marketing guy sitting right here.

- So what, then?
- Give me your phone.

- No, I can do it.
- Give me your phone!

Tell me what to put in.
What, like, a crisis manager?

- That sounds about right!
- No, no, no.

Crisis management.
A crisis management firm.

- Okay, I'm good now.
- What's the difference?

Why aren't all these
reporters over at Jerry's?

I'm calling Frank. He knows somebody
who deals with this kind of thing.

The car guy?

You're giving me crap
for Google,

and you want advice from Frank
at the car dealership?

Doesn't the school have
a crisis manager?

Does it look like the school
has a...

Sorry, Ma.

Okay, McGinn and Company.

Dan McGinn. Helping clients solve
their most perplexing

and important reputation
challenges.

- What, is he on a top 10 list?
- Yeah, he's on a top 10 list.

- Should I call him?
- Yeah, call him.

Sure, why not?

Ask for Dan McGinn.

Oh, hi, hi.
May I speak with...

Dan McGinn.

You're walkin' weird, man,
you get Sandusky'd last night?

Yeah, he sucked me off
and then we played Xbox.

- It's a lie.
- What?

Some fuckin' piece of trailer
trash set him up.

- Jerry?
- Kid probably tried to blackmail him.

Jerry told him to fuck off,
and he's like,

I'm gonna sue your ass
for $20 million

for damage to my rectum.

Total fabrication.

It's somebody from
the track team.

- Our track team?
- Yeah.

Did you see about JoePa?

Of course I saw it, man.

I don't even want to
talk about that.

You the faggot?

- Hey.
- Hey!

Get him! Get him!

Go! Go!

No showers, huh?

Showers?

Trash, huh?

I'm gonna beat your ass, kid.
You fucking faggot!

I'm happy to come
down, Guido.

I've been watching
the coverage.

It sure looks like things
have begun to spin out.

Yeah. It's making this school
look like shit.

They have no idea
how to get in front of it.

You lost me for a second.

Are you looking for advice
for Coach Paterno?

- Or for the university?
- For both.

The thing is, if you hire me,
the issue is, sir,

I'm not sure you and Penn State
are two entities

with aligned interests
right now.

Well, I never thought
of it that way.

The guy just represents you,
so you've gotta pay for it?

When it's over,
they'll reimburse me.

Yeah, the university's reputation
is the board's responsibility.

This is their crisis. They need
to hire a crisis manager, not us.

Yeah.

What the hell is that?

We're here for them.
You don't leave 'em hanging.

- No. Joe!
- What?

A hundred reporters.
You can't march out.

I should go.

No, I'll do it.

Joe Paterno!

Joe Paterno!

- This is their home.
- They expect us to camp.

Step back, man!

Joe Paterno!

- Hey, everybody.
- Joe Paterno!

Hey, everybody.
Thank you very much.

Appreciate your support.

We really do.
Before you go back to cheering,

I'll ask you to take a moment
and say a prayer for...

Scott Paterno!

Scott Paterno!

Okay, look, look, look.
However this works out...

Scott Paterno!

Guys, however this works out...

This is a terrible story involving
a lot of kids, okay?

- And they need our support too!
- Scott Paterno!

- A prayer for the kids, okay?
- Scott Paterno!

I appreciate it.
I really appreciate it.

Guys, if you could just
listen to me for one second!

That's great, guys.
I got three kids, okay?

- This is a huge...
- Scott Paterno!

- All right, guys. Thank you.
- Scott Paterno!

Scott Paterno!

Scott, is Joe gonna speak
up...

Wow, so effective.

Fuck you, Jay.

- Oh, Scott, for heaven's sakes.
- You can't just shut 'em off.

- Joe could.
- Joe's not goin' out there.

Scott Paterno!

Call him.

Hi. Dan McGinn, please?

It's Mary Kay Paterno.

We saw the CNN interview, Sara.
What kind of bullshit was that?

Football programs

- make millions of dollars...
- Billions.

They make billions of dollars
every year off football players.

But JoePa was the only one
who ever said,

these are scholars, they're here
to learn how to become men.

That's the guy you want
to shit on?

Like it's his fault
that Jerry's a queen.

I have to believe you know the difference
between a gay man and a pedophile.

Are you calling me a faggot?

Whether you're a faggot
has nothing to do

with the act of a child abuser.

If you're friend calls me
a fuckin' faggot one more time,

- I'm gonna lose my shit.
- Homosexuality is legal.

Who are you even talking to?

JoePa made an ethos
in this whole place.

Like, it fucking mattered
that you got an education

because you're about more
than just yourself.

You're a school, and you fight
for something together.

- She went to the school.
- Yeah? She learn anything?

On your way down,
think about getting up.

Don't be afraid to lose.

The team that makes
fewer mistakes wins.

Cut your hair, wear a tie...

- That's literally all JoePa.
- She knows that.

You know why you read Virgil
in the original?

To gain a nuanced understanding
of coded language.

So when one of your guys says that
something fishy went down,

in the locker room, in the shower, with
a 10-year-old, you get the fucking gist.

She makes money by telling lies.

She doesn't have a good lie,
she doesn't get a good paycheck.

It must not be a good lie,
'cause it's a tiny fuckin' paycheck.

What have I...

Liability problem.
What is that?

Who could've stopped it,
and didn't?

Some of it's just lying,
some just people hearing

and not believing it...

Is she gonna be
on the Davis call?

Yep.

We need to be on the phone
with Lanny Davis at 4:00.

Bill Clinton's lawyer.
He's representing Penn State.

- Holy shit.
- He's gonna scream a lot,

and threaten to sue the paper
into the ground.

Can he do that?

Who knew about 1998?

The cops. Gary Schultz.

He says he told Spanier,
Spanier said he didn't.

What's the likelihood
Schultz knew

and didn't tell Tim Curley
and JoePa?

Nobody take a shit around there

without asking JoePa
for tactical advice, so...

But he says no.

The kid he raped
at the Alamo Bowl?

That was '99, but I don't
think he told anybody

- before the investigation.
- 2000?

A janitor sees Jerry
pin a boy to a wall, blow him,

but only tells another janitor
who's scared shitless of Joe,

thinks he's gonna get fired,
so no report.

2001?

2001, everybody knew,
but they called it nothing.

Horsing around
in a locker room.

Who?
Who uses those words?

Spanier said
he heard it was conduct

that made somebody uncomfortable.
McQueary.

- That's what McQueary told him?
- No, he never talked to McQueary.

Who met with McQueary?

Paterno, Schultz, Curley.

How do they describe it?

They described it
as inappropriate conduct,

horsing around,
not that serious.

And what about JoePa?

He said that McQueary saw
something of a sexual nature.

What does Joe consider sexual?

I don't know.

What did McQueary say?

McQueary said what he saw.

The kid against the wall,
Jerry behind him.

- Rhythmic sounds.
- Anal rape.

Probably, but I don't know
if he said those words.

He was trying to
communicate anal rape,

not snapping towels.

Well, I know that, I just don't know
if we're on solid ground to say that.

I don't know if he said
that to Joe.

Are we having a role
reversal here?

You choose your words
and your reality.

How many people used words
that allowed other people

to understand crimes
against children

as what knuckleheads do
in locker rooms?

We're in this too.

Your first article's the reason
a bunch of these victims came forward.

There's no case without that.

You think I don't wanna use
the strongest possible language?

But when Bill Clinton's lawyer
calls you...

I'll deal with that.

He is the soul of the university.
Anybody in this town will tell you that.

We built the library,
and he quintupled the endowment.

- $2 billion.
- This was a cow college.

They wanted a school
with a good football team.

But Joe always said that they should be
a world-class academic institution.

- It's not a farm team for the NFL.
- It's a philosophy.

- Like the dorms.
- Would not allow

an athletic dormitory...

Show him the
Why I hate Jerry Sandusky memo.

I don't know what this is.

What do you think?

If there was a reason to fire
Jerry, he would have found it.

Okay, stop talking about me
like I'm dead, please.

I'm here.
The press is here.

Kids are shouting
on the lawn.

Everybody wants to know
what I have to say.

So, it's time to say it.

And what exactly
do you want them to know?

A tragedy happened.

I did exactly what
I was supposed to do

as soon as I knew.

End of story.

Did other people know?
I don't know.

Did I know about rumors?

Who remembers?

I don't know what
I had for breakfast.

Sir...

Point is, it's time to focus
on helping the university,

not talking about Joe Paterno.

It's... What do...

It's got nothing to do
with me, truly.

What does it have to do
with me?

Coach, I have so much
respect for you.

I followed your career
for a long time.

That's why I took the case.

This is the bad part of my job.

You need to step down.

You need to retire...

and announce it right away.

Okay, wait, wait...
Hold on...

I want to know, from you,

what not to say to the press.

That's why you're here.

I don't need career advice.

Dan, we asked you to craft
a message for the press. That's it.

This isn't about what he...

No.
He can't go out there.

He's used to being
the emperor holding forth

in front of a press corps
that just watched him win.

You're not disciplined enough
to go before the press.

- That's not true.
- He talks in front of

the press every day,
Mr. McGinn.

Ma'am, what I had for breakfast,
is what people say

when they're worried
that they do know,

and they're old enough to think
that they'll get away with it.

I started saying it
to my wife when I turned 40.

You need to resign
before somebody does it for you.

You've had a great career.

I'm gonna recommend to the board
that 2005 be your last season.

How old are you, sir?

He's 84.

I may be 77...

- But I'm not old.
- Joe.

I've raised millions of dollars
for this university.

I graduate 85% of my players.

You wanna fire me,

try it.

Folks,

the question of whether

Coach Paterno will retire
or be fired

is a big part of the public
narrative right now.

I want you all to think
about that.

You've had a great career.

Coach? A great career.

I'm very disappointed
in JoePa.

To be honest with you,
I've looked up to him my whole life.

Why would he stick up
for a frickin' pedophile?

Why would this happen?
Help me with this.

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

Did I see a reverse throwback
to the quarterback?

Bone right over 42.
Pitch reverse pass.

Well, don't practice it
unless you're gonna use it.

- We'll use it.
- Yeah.

So...

Look, guys,

this thing

has gotten...

you know, out of hand,
so...

I planned to

pack it in,
end of they year anyway.

So...

I am absolutely devastated
by the developments in this case.

I grieve for the children
and their families,

and I pray for their
comfort and relief.

I have come to work every day
for the last 61 years

with one clear goal in mind.

To serve the best interests
of this university

and the young men who have been
entrusted to my care.

I have the same goal today.

That's why I've decided
to announce my retirement,

effective at the end
of this season.

I love you all, guys,
I really do.

I want you to know
that we're gonna play

the rest of the season together,
all right?

That's the deal.

That's the new deal.

There's still a lot of
football to play.

A lot of interesting things
can happen to all of you.

I want that for you.
So, I want you to focus on that.

'Cause that's all there
really is, what we do.

The rest of this is just
something...

I mean, what happened
this last week

is just...

It's not your fault.
You had nothin' to do with it.

But it makes me feel bad

that you had to put up with it.

We'll always be
Penn State football players.

- Yes, sir.
- Yep.

Always, till the day we die...

I wish I could've
done more for those kids.

Can't say that.

It's an admission of guilt.

Well, is there any human person
looking at this

doesn't wish they could've
done something more?

You're gonna be misquoted.

I'm gonna be gone.

Dawn?

- Hi.
- Hi.

I'm so sorry. Aaron tried
to call me, and I was right...

I know. There was
a problem at school, and...

We're not talking to
any other reporters.

They all want to,
but we said no to everyone but you.

You get that, right?

I know. I know,

and I cannot tell you
how much I appreciate that.

Do you wanna talk to Mike,
Aaron's psychologist?

I mean, yeah.
That would be great.

Would Aaron be okay
with that?

I'm driving down
there tonight

and I could meet
with him tomorrow.

Yeah.
Aaron says it's okay.

Penn State football coach
Joe Paterno will retire,

but tonight everyone is taking
sides on what he asked

in return to coach
four more games.

The poll conducted
on ESPN suggested

that 61% of the people
out there

think he should be allowed
that opportunity.

If you ask people
who are not sports fans,

you might get a very
different result.

Joe?

- Come on, Joe.
- Yeah.

Come on, hon.
Let's go to bed.

- I...
- Yeah?

Yes, I'm still home.

That's enough work for one day.

Come on, let's go.

I think...
Hip is acting up again.

- Oh, it is?
- See that?

- Oh, man.
- I'll give you a rub.

They say that's the good...

The best operation you can get.

A rub?

No, a hip replacement, yeah.

You're not there yet.

- What's that?
- What is that?

I don't know.

- I'll get it.
- Okay.

- Who callin' at this time?
- I don't know.

- Yeah?
- Hey, Joe.

- Hey, Frank.
- Sorry to come here so late.

- That's all right.
- This is for you.

They'd like you to call him.

Call him?

Yeah, thank you.

Well, the board of trustees is
holding an emergency meeting

and there's a lot of speculation
here on the future

of university president
Graham Spanier.

Will he resign?

Will the board ask him
to step down?

Yeah, it's Joe Paterno.

What?

They fired me.

- What?
- Yeah, effective immediately.

- Joe.
- Yeah.

Joe, give me that phone.

Let me have that phone.

Hello?

After 61 years,
he deserved better.

The indictment of
Jerry Sandusky,

the board...

Hey, listen.

Penn State's board of
trustees, tonight,

decided that it is in the best
interests of the university

to have a change
in leadership to deal

with the difficult issues
that we are facing.

The board of trustees and
Graham Spanier have decided that,

effective immediately,

Dr. Spanier is no longer
president of the university.

In addition, Joe Paterno is no longer
the head football coach.

What?

Take that motherfucker down!

Joe Paterno is Penn State!

They fired him with a phone call.

After 45 years.
You know, who the hell does that?

He didn't give a shit
about winning.

He fuckin' won anyway.

It's a motherfuckin' travesty.

Get off his fuckin' lawn.

We want Joe! We want Joe!

We want Joe!
We want Joe! We want Joe!

Joe Paterno!

You're great, you guys.

You guys are great.
And let me tell you this...

You know what I say, guys...
You know, I mean girls too...

We love you, Joe!

Listen. You gotta...

You gotta study now,
all right?

You gotta get a good night's sleep
so you can study.

We still got things to do.

I'm out of it now, maybe,

that phone call put me
out of it,

but we're gonna go
from here, okay?

We're gonna go from here.

You know,
because things have ways...

They have ways of working out.

We want Joe! One more day!

We don't know
what's gonna happen ever.

Right?
And the same with you.

So, take care of yourselves.
It's important you do that.

Right? All right.
You're gonna be fine.

Yeah. Yeah.

Good luck to you all,
but listen to me just a second.

I thank you for coming.

Pray a little bit for the...
for those victims, okay?

We'll do that.

- Joe! Joe!
- We love you!

We are Penn State!
We are Penn State!

Penn State! Penn State!

We are Penn State!

We want Joe!
We want Joe! We want Joe!

Excuse me!
Can I ask you any questions?

We want Joe!
We want Joe! We want Joe!

What did you think
about what happened to JoePa?

Kids got abused
and he didn't tell the police.

You go to jail for that.

- Let's go!
- Can I...

Can I maybe quote you on that?

No! I don't want to get
fucking killed in my bed!

The vice president
of the school

knew about it in 1998.

Heard about it twice.

You hear it twice
and you don't hang the guy,

you're just an... hole.

Joe heard about it in 2001.
He reported it immediately.

But we're definitely
telling Second Mile, right?

- Yeah.
- And the Child Welfare thing,

we're just playing it by ear,
and Graham's okay with that?

Well, Graham says
the only downside

is if Jerry doesn't get it
and this happens again.

Then we're vulnerable
for not having reported it.

But we can deal with
that down the road.

Joe's fine with that.

- Paterno?
- Yeah.

But he doesn't know about the
last time, the thing from '98.

Yeah, of course he knows.

I sat down with him
when it happened.

He was all over me about it.

You sat down with him
when it happened?

He wanted constant updates.

You ever keep Paterno
waiting on anything?

He's like a woodpecker.

We want Joe!
We want Joe! We want Joe!

Tim, if Joe knows
this is the second incident...

And you're sure?

Look, I've got emails up
one side and down the other. Yes.

I don't know.

Gary. If we need to report it,
we'll report it.

But we start with sitting down
and talking to Jerry like a person.

Joe's fine with that.

- Okay?
- Yeah. Yeah, fine.

Sit tight, and this is
gonna get taken care of.

What do they do first?

They protect themselves first,
try to sweep it under the rug.

That's one thing the Catholic Church
and Penn State have in common.

Joe's not the one who should be
taking the fall for this.

It's fuckin' Jerry.
Get the fuck off JoePa.

It's the media
who singled out Joe Paterno.

They made him look like
a fuckin' villain!

You call him a legend,
then treat him like a legend.

Here's a man that was told

that a 10-year-old boy
was being sodomized

in his backyard,
and did nothing about it.

He has done
so much for this university,

and within the past four days,
everything we knew of Joe Paterno

- has been ripped away from us...
- And rightfully so!

He's as much of an animal
as the guy that did the act.

Are you kidding me?
How stupid do you have to be

to go ahead and protest
over taking down

a ring of child abusers?

Are you serious?

A few years ago, we had no idea
and it was a great football program.

A few years ago, you had
several kids getting raped.

You guys have been brainwashed
by that school.

It's nothing but a cult...

This has football written
all over it!

He did exactly the right thing.

If he had done any more, he would
have been criticized for that...

Fuck the media!

Fuck the media!

Fuck the media!

Fuck the media!

Fuck the media!

We want Joe! We want Joe!

We want Joe! We want Joe!

Good morning to you.
It was really a wild night.

It all started after students here
learned that Joe Paterno had been fired.

Think it was a witch hunt,
and everybody got what they wanted.

Back in 1998,

this should've and
could've stopped.

It almost makes Paterno look like
a fraud for everything

he always stood for.

And that's what he has now
opened himself up for

because he always
had the moral superiority.

Right.

Hey, guys, guys,
can you just back off the car?

One question,
was your father fired

because he didn't tell the grand
jury everything he knew?

We don't have an answer for...

Jerry was caught with Victim Six
in your locker room,

- you really didn't know...
- Guys. Guys! Will you,

out of respect
for the children...

That's why we're here,
the kids.

No, I...

All right, your kids. Sorry.
Didn't see them there. Sorry.

Thanks, man.

Okay, guys. Come on.

Just go straight up to see Grandpa,
all right? Come on.

Just go straight up.

I'm gonna get canned.

Bradley wants me to come
talk to him.

I don't think
they're gonna fire you.

Why?

It's a witch hunt.
If they go for you,

there's no reason
they won't go for me.

The board of trustees wants
to make this all about us.

And football. 'Cause if they don't,
it'd have to be about Second Mile,

where the guy
actually worked.

So who's gonna be left holding the bag
if they can't blame it on us?

I don't know, ya know?

Dad, what exactly did you say?

McQueary came to me,

and he told me
what he told me.

First time I ever heard
anything like this.

So...

I knew I couldn't handle it,
so I went...

What am I gonna do?

Go runnin' with some things
I don't know are true?

So I went to Tim,

and Gary.

Why them?

I didn't see it, Jay.

I didn't see it.

Tim and Gary are all right,
I mean, they...

Ya know? Capable people.

You know, the best thing
about this job

is the young people
you get to work with.

You see 'em come up
as young kids and mature.

See 'em grow up,

overcome some adversity,

have some success.

They turn out to be
good people.

They come back and say...

Hey, Coach.

It was so great

being a Penn State
football player.

Yeah.

My name...

I spent my whole life trying
to make that name mean something.

And it's gone now.

Aaron came forward
three years ago,

in this office, after his school
told him not to report it

because Jerry Sandusky
had a heart of gold.

We contacted the police
that day,

and usually cases like this
it takes a week,

maybe a month,
to get an arrest.

This took three years of waiting,

of a scared boy
telling a horror story,

to me, to a trooper,
to two other troopers,

to two other new troopers,
a grand jury,

then a second grand jury,
and a third.

Still no arrest.

He suffered
from panic attacks,

insomnia,
conversion syndrome.

I don't recall how often

or how many times
he tried to kill himself.

Attorney generals
have looked him in the eye,

in the eye,

and said, we're gonna
arrest this monster next week.

Then more months
would go by,

and then more months
would go by.

Three years he stuck
with this

because he didn't wanna see
another kid get hurt.

What do you think
about the Paterno situation?

I honestly don't know why anybody's
talking about Joe Paterno.

Somebody six months from retirement
failed to see the big picture

and didn't vigorously
protect children?

Of course you goddamn
fire him.

It's spectacularly unworthy
of conversation. I'm sorry.

A crime against
children happened.

Why the heck is anyone
talking about Joe Paterno?

Coaches on the same staff
for 32 years...

Coaching staffs who've spent
so much time together in a room,

in the dark, with the film on,
and talkin', and...

These guys are all close.

Know what he's gonna do?

He's not going to prop
his feet up.

He's gonna go help young people
in a program that he started...

What's this?

Alamo Bowl.

When was that?

Everybody wants dates.
I don't know.

Before he retired.
'99, maybe.

Which one is New Orleans?

- What?
- Which bowl?

Sugar Bowl.

That was in the '70s
a couple times.

Yeah.

He went in the pool
with the kids

at the Bowl games
in New Orleans and Miami.

- Who? Jerry did?
- Yeah.

Well, you didn't like
to go in the pool, remember?

I mean, you were working,
on a towel,

and I went in with them.

But I don't throw the kids up
in the air. The dads do that.

And they... they scream.

They just love that.

What? Our kids?

Yeah. I didn't do that with
our kids. Jerry did.

What are you saying?

I'm saying
you couldn't have known.

Otherwise you wouldn't have
let them go in the pool, right?

I had a job to do.

I was working.

I wasn't focused
on the goddamn pool.

For decades, Penn State

represented what was best
about college athletics.

For the past week,
it has reflected

what is often worst
about human beings.

And today, for the first time
since late 1965,

Joe Paterno will not be
the head coach,

and those in Beaver Stadium
hope that they can aid,

in some small way,
in the healing process.

Penn State and Nebraska.

From University Park,
Dave Pasch will have the call.

And the Nebraska and
Penn State players,

currently sharing the sentiments
of many around the nation,

gathering in prayer

for the victims of
these aberrations

to show their solidarity
and support.

And obviously,
an emotional day for many reasons.

A lot of Joe Paterno fans.

Paterno was to pass
Amos Alonzo Stagg today

for most games coached
in Division I.

It's been a week nobody
could've imagined here, Dave,

at State College,

the reach and scope
of all that has happened...

Penn State!

Penn State!

Penn State!

Penn State!

It's been such an emotional week
for the Paterno family,

this morning Jay Paterno
went by early

to see his parents,
Joe and Sue.

Fearful that he might not be
able to contain the emotions,

he wrote a letter,
but he asked that his parents

not read that letter
while he was there at the house.

Please read it later, after
I leave, Dad, is what he told Joe.

A letter to be read,
basically giving him the message

of what he means to him,
what this day means to him.

Martinez keeping,

and then pitching it
the last second,

and Burkhead is in...
Touchdown, Nebraska!

And Nebraska has opened
up a 17-0 lead.

We hear in the background

chants from the student
section for JoePa...

The Paternos must be
a letter-writing family.

Matt McGloin told me
that Joe Paterno

sent a letter to the players,
a short note,

and in that letter it said
that he was heartbroken,

sorry he couldn't be
with them

but he wanted them to focus
on this game and not on him.

Dave?

And McGloin fumbled the ball!

As McGloin makes the catch!

Touchdown!

Two scores in five minutes

and Penn State is back within
three, with the football.

There's always Joe Paterno
on what to do here,

whether to go on
fourth-and-one.

Penn State, down three, will go.

McGloin gets the play off,
this'll be the final play.

McGloin running around...

And it's incomplete.
Nebraska wins!

- Roll for me, Charlie.
- Right.

The D came out in nickel,
stacked the strong side.

The O-line got no push.

What is that?

Hey, Dad?

Listen, I talked to Merrick.

The Big Ten wants to

change the name
on the trophy.

What?
The Stagg-Paterno Trophy?

- What the hell they gonna call it?
- I don't know.

I think we call Jim Delany
and talk him down.

- It's a panic move.
- No, no...

- Dan McGinn should call.
- Yeah, you're right.

They're not gonna announce
till Monday.

If we get to Delany today,
then it'll be fine.

- Stop.
- This is not where we stop.

This is where we fight.
This is where it starts.

- We're in the fight of our lives...
- Stop.

Stop!

No more. No more...

He went in the pool
with the kids at Bowl games.

Our kids?

You couldn't have known.

Otherwise you wouldn't have
let them go in the pool.

I was working.

I wasn't focused
on the goddamn pool.

Joe!

Joe, get in the pool.
Go play with Jay!

Dad, come get in the pool.
Come here, Dad.

Joe, get in the pool!
Go play with Jay.

Dad. Come here, Dad.

Joe!

- Come here, Dad!
- Joe!

Oh, my...

It's a small-cell carcinoma
in the left lung,

and it looks like
it's metastasized, which...

It's not what
we want to see.

We're gonna go at it
with all we've got.

That means chemotherapy,

and then, of course,
with radiation.

But given the bronchitis
you've got now,

your broken pelvis,
and your age...

- Don't you touch me.
- Get the fuck out of here!

- This is wrong.
- You're wrong, pal.

Everybody's got an opinion.
What makes yours special?

Get out of here.

Get the fuck out of here.

Sara Ganim.

Hello?

Hi.

Hi. Who is this?

Do I have to say
right now?

No?

Whatever's comfortable.

My lawyer said
I should call you. I...

- I grew up in State College.
- Okay.

Jerry Sandusky...

Yeah...

There are a lot of people
who have gone through this.

- I'm sure you know that.
- Yeah.

Have you talked to anyone
about this?

Well, the lawyer and...
I talked to Joe.

Joe... Joe Paterno?

We didn't really talk
about it.

He said that
Jerry's a good man,

and I shouldn't talk that way
about a good man.

That was pretty much it.

Okay.

And...

Do you...

Do you remember
when exactly it was

that this all took place?

Yeah. It was in summer.

In 1976.

I'm sorry. You said 1976?