Steve Byrne

Yes, he should have switched to contacts.

He kept those military-issue tinted glasses for how many years?

Yeah, he was set in his ways.

Right, he had the same Swifty Lazar glasses that turned jet black when he got outside for the last 45 years.

I'm not making excuses for the guy.

I'm just saying, I think in our mind, Joe Paterno is a legendary football coach, leader, you know, a molder of youth and stuff.

In his mind, he was probably just...

Some fucking guy who grew up in... He was born in 1918 and grew up in Poughkeepsie and fucking... He doesn't know what to do with this shit.

He should have done something with it.

But it's weird how people react too.

No, I'm saying they didn't do anything back then.

They were like, hey, you keep your business to your business and you handle stuff the way you handle stuff and you don't shame and you keep stuff in.

I mean, look at... Whatever.

In his lifetime...

Women, gays, black, whatever.

I mean, you know, in the 40s, they were segregating blacks in the army.

And he was 30 years old, you know, like he's from a totally different time.

And I'm just saying he should have done something.

But to hold them to our sort of evolved.

Modern standard.