"The poster on the wall was an homage to Washington Crossing the Delaware. Instead of George Washington leading the Continental Army across the river, however, Joe Paterno stood in the prow of the boat with the Penn State Nittany Lions."
"I knew plenty of people in Philadelphia with full Penn State rooms, some of whom hadn't even attended the school. But they liked college football, and Penn State was the best team that could conceivably be considered local."
"My fandom was at its biggest when I was a kid, and in the 1990s, Penn State was frequently one of the best teams in the country. One year I wore my Ki-Jana Carter jersey to every grade-school dance I attended."
"That is about when my fandom pretty much ended: The team was bad, I was at a different school and my attention was elsewhere."
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