Wednesday Quick Hitters

Joe Paterno obviously believes age is just a number that doesn’t mean all that much. Just days before his 82nd birthday Paterno has agreed to a new three-year contract to stay on as head football coach and beloved icon
at Penn State University. While he has had health issues in recent years and just last month underwent hip replacement surgery, Paterno still loves the game and players and has no plans to retire. JoePa has been at the school
for 59 years and has been head coach since 1966….three years before man walked on the moon. We may be taking vacations there before he finally leaves the sidelines.

I don’t know what is more amazing…the fact that two of the nation’s top college running backs played on the same Pop Warner football team or that they didn’t win a National Championship. Georgia’s Knowshon Moreno and Donald Brown of the University of Connecticut were both named 2nd team All-Americans by the Associated Press Tuesday. They were in the same backfield while playing youth football in Atlantic Highlands…of course Moreno would later play at Middletown South and Brown at Red Bank Catholic.

No surprise here….the Giants-Cowboys game the other night drew the most viewers ever for a Sunday Night Football game. The Giants get the Sunday night nod again this week when they host Carolina with a lot on the line.

For the past nine years downtown Toms River has housed the Colonel Charles Waterhouse Historical Museum which has been enjoyed by thousands of visitors, including students from the local area. Sadly the museum will close its doors on December 31st although officials hope to relocate it in the future. Colonel Waterhouse is the only Artist-in-Residence
In the history of the United States Marine Corps and a trip to the museum was an up-close history lesson which came with his vivid recollections of the military and Marine Corps. Hopefully a good home will be found for the Colonel’s artwork so it can be viewed by future generations.