Sometime in the early 2000's, my wife and I invited our friends Steve and Maria to go to a Penn State sports booster dinner/fundraiser. Joe Paterno and a couple of other coaches were scheduled to speak. We also asked Steve's parents to go as they were big PSU fans. They said 'No, we'll just be shoved off in some small room and only see everybody on a small screen."
Fast forward to the event, we're next in the line at the bar and someone taps me on the shoulder and asks if it would be OK if he cut in. I turned around and there is Paterno. We shot the breeze with him for a couple of minutes and then he got 2 double bourbons and went to sign autographs.
