Posted by Travis Rodgers on Feb 12, 2010

Paterno Vision #NCAAfootball

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Without the glasses he doesn't look a day over 82.

This can’t be happening. This is a bad dream, a cruel joke, a hoax. Joe Paterno doesn’t wear his Coke bottle glasses anymore?

Nope.

According to a report on Fight On State, a Penn State blog:

“I had trouble reading for the last six months, so I went down to Philadelphia to the Penn Scheie Eye Institute,” the 83-year-old said. “And the guy says to me … I think we can fix that up. So they went in and did it. I don't really need glasses any more.”

This is terrible. Joe Paterno without his trademark specs? This would be like Bear Bryant giving up the houndstooth hat; you know, if he weren’t dead and everything. This is Lou Holtz without his lisp, Mark Mangino without his sextuple-X windbreaker and Lane Kiffin without that clueless, yet smug, look on his face.

And looking at the picture, he may want to throw those things back on. At least when he had the Hubble Telescope on his face, you didn’t really notice that he also has the world largest nose. JoePa, get some frames made with some clear glass and get them back on immediately. That giant, fleshy, beak shouldn’t be forced upon anyone.

Good luck on the recruiting trail without the specs, Joe. I don’t think anyone will recognize you, they will just think you are some senile old man with a unicorn horn jammed in the middle of your face.

I thought people were supposed to look better when they lost their glasses. Guess not.