A group of 300 Joe Paterno's former Penn State players denounce HBO's Paterno movie

Awful Announcing

The former players released the following statement in reaction to Barry Levinson's movie: “As Penn State Lettermen, there was never a question that one day we would see a movie made about Joe Paterno, one that showcased his impact on the game of football, on Penn State University and, on the thousands of men he coached and mentored over his 61-year career. Sadly — and wrongly — HBO’s Paterno is not that movie." The statements adds that "this uninformed depiction of Joe fails in every manner about the man we knew and loved. Deviously using ‘fiction’ as his shield, Levinson takes shameless liberties about the Sandusky scandal and Joe’s knowledge of it that would certainly be proven libelous if Joe were alive today."