Former players call for Paterno's return

In the infamous words of he who must not be named: How’s Joe Paterno? We gonna bring that back?

Well, according to more than 200 former Penn State football players, yes.

These former players, ranging from the 1950s to 2000s, sent a letter today (Tuesday) to the board of trustees and President Eric Barron, urging the school to return the large bronze statue of the infamous coach to campus. They also asked for an apology for Paterno’s wife and the restoration of the Player’s Wall, which are plaques honoring former players that surrounded the statue. Read more about it from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The school removed the statue from outside Beaver Stadium in 2012 in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. The university fired Paterno because of the scandal, and he died of lung cancer in 2012.

According to the Inquirer, a spokesman for the school said there was no timeline on acknowledging Paterno’s legacy and there would be a ”time and place” for that.