Business as Usual.......SANDUSKY!!!

Sept 1, 2012

The Crowd cheered as the Penn State Nittany Lions raced out onto the field for the beginning of a New and wonderful Season full of promise even though due to some "nastiness" it would not lead to anything but the scheduled games. No Post Season Bowl Games or any chances of a National Title......Nevertheless, the mood was positive and festive as the crowd cheered, screamed and waved their arms in the air.

Then during the silence of the Traditional Pre-Game Prayer some unexpected awful event happened when some person screamed "SANDUSKY!!" several times at the top of their lungs. It was awful and just ruined the moment and set a bad dark cloud over the whole stadium.

As the game went on these "SANDUSKY!!" screams and shouts could be heard all around the Stadium. It was horrible. After the Half Time show when the 3rd quarter resumed it got worse when the drunken student body section began chanting it "SANDUSKY!! SANDUSKY!!" and it seemed to spread to all sections of the Stadium as the good, decent and moral people with families and children began to leave.

At one point the game was stopped and the Officials on the field had the announcer communicate to the crowd that the game would be forfeited if the chanting did not cease. During the announcement the chanting went on and it did not cease but only got louder.

The game was stopped several more times under threat of forfeit but resumed to the end......THIS was the Penn State 2012 season with home and away crowds screaming madly "SANDUSKY!! SANDUSKY!!" and other vile and despicable remarks.

And it proved that No College Football Program, no matter how HIGH and MIGHTY and revered by even its most loyal fans are above the Moral compass of the people or the law......I imagine this chanting will go on for some years to come.....A worse penalty any Commission could ever impose.

Kind of hard to sweep Hundreds of Thousands of pissed off voices under the rug isn't it?

Cross-Eyed Fuck Face

It had been a routine day at the Courthouse with the comings and going of people in all sorts of attire, of all sorts of race, shape & size and I sat quietly on a bench in the 4th Floor Main Corridor working on a free-lance article I was doing for the Herald that had required me to be there to gather some facts....... Unknown to me at the time there was a Life Changing event taking place just down the hall in Court Room 4-C....

Court Room 4-C:

 Divorce Court. The Case of  Gerald S. Fienburg and Gloria A. Stanton Fienburg....The FINE Bergs, only everything was not fine. He was a well to do and prominent Personal Injury attorney with the ads on TV "Everything will be FINE with Gerald Feinberg"......Everything but his marriage to Gloria A. Feinberg that was.

 She had filed for the divorce and he was taking it quite hard as it hit him right out of left field. He never saw it coming and had been a good and loving husband. He had never cheated on her and treated her like a queen ever since and well before their illustrious over the top $350,000 marriage ceremony and honeymoon in the Swiss Alps and 3 month island hopping cruise back to the states. He was devastated and wanted a reason why and up to this point she had only stated through her Attorney Milton Goldstien, the well to do and prominent Divorce Attorney - Irreconcilable differences.

 And so the proceedings went on and played out as property matters were discussed and inevitably as these things go, the mood was getting uglier and uglier as both sides locked horns and it was a powder keg, a pressure cooker ready to blow and finally the fuse was lit when Jerry S. screamed at Gloria A.
                 "I don't give a fuck what you want! I will fight you Tooth and Nail for every dime until you
                   tell me WHY!! What have I ever done to you to deserve this. I LOVE YOU!
                   WHY?".......

 And it was then she had had enough and she exploded

                   "Every time you fuck me you have this CROSS-EYED FUCK FACE look and it creeps
                     me out! I cant stand it! Its all I ever see - Night and Day! I dread you, I dread seeing you
                     and knowing you will mount me again with that LOOK!

It was then that all Hell loose in the courtroom causing the Judge to call for order and a recess and that's when Ted Clark came running down the hall screaming "CROSS-EYED FUCK FACE!! CROSS-EYED FUCK FACE!!" I thought he was chasing after someone and then it occurred to me that nobody had run past me but him and that maybe he had just lost his god damned mind.

Later I learned of the entire facts and looking back now, I can say I wished I never had. I spend nights awake with insomnia thinking about what that face looked like and I wasn't the only one. Some people had taken the liberty on the Internet to photo shop Feinbergs photos. He became known worldwide as "The Cross-Eyed Fuck Face". Several tabloids and a National Syndicated Talk Show had offered him millions to have his photo taken while revealing the contorted look that so appalled his wife into divorcing him. He had shunned them all.

Meanwhile, the Ex-Mrs Feinberg had become a celebrity in her own right giving countless interviews on TV and radio Talk Shows each time giving her own account of the contorted "Cross-eyed Fuck Face" look. None ever seemed to be the same as in some she would have her tongue out and in others some variance forgetting to close & cross her eyes etc. She had even done sessions with profile artist giving an account of the look. But still the fact was it wasn't a photo of the original that everyone demanded to see.

Imagine waking up to the Hell of people screaming"One Eyed Fuck Face" at you non stop and laughing. It was no wonder the man had become a recluse holed up in his house and then finally the inevitable self inflicted gun shot to the face. It must have been his final "Fuck You" to the world to choose to put a shotgun to his face. And still in his death he will get no rest and be eternally known by this. In Fact, the cemetery had to move his plot to another unmarked location in the area so that vandals would stop desecrating his marker with pictures and "One Eyed Fuck Face" whatnot.

So I, as well as many others, will lie awake at nights wondering, but never knowing what The One Eyed Fuck Face really looked like.