College Football 2012: Why I'm Rooting for Penn State This
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Football 2012: Why I'm Rooting for Penn State This Season  I'm
not a Penn State fan. I'm not one of the many Penn State
graduates who still live and die by the result of football games
on Saturdays. To me, "we are" is just an incomplete sentence.  I
am, however, rooting for Penn State football this season.  I
graduated from Temple University, a school with a football team
on the wrong side of a very one-sided rivalry with Penn State. I
competed for Temple's gymnastics team, a sport that routinely
saw Penn State as one of the best in the country. We set goals
every season to make our mark and beat Penn State, but we never
could. I hated that we couldn't.  None of that matters now.
I've grown to respect what the people surrounding the football
program have done since the scandal fallout. I respect Bill
O'Brien for accepting the challenge of starting a new chapter
for Penn State football.