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Joe Paterno still coaches from the field.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
PHILADELPHIA _ After 74 years on earth, 60 years in football and 51 years as a college coach, the man from Brooklyn who played quarterback in the Ivy League and was on his way to law school before coming upon a little town surrounded by mountains in central Pennsylvania where he would eventually help change the very perception of a university, is still just Joe.
He is Joe to the teenagers he coaches today at Penn State. He is Joe to the players he has been coaching since 1950. He is Joe to everybody who knows him.
It is not coach Paterno. It is not Mr. Paterno. It is simply Joe.
"I was a punk in high school when he came to my house," Ron Heller said from his home in Montana. "My father was only 36 or 37. He walks in and my father is `Mr. Paterno, Mr. Paterno.' And he goes, `My name is Joe.' "
The next visit, Ron called him Mr. Paterno.
"And he said, `No, I thought we went through this, my name is Joe,'" Heller said.
Heller, who had a solid NFL career at offensive tackle, lost interest in school after being drafted by Tampa Bay in 1983. That final semester, he had four D's and an F. He did not graduate. He started as a rookie for the Buccaneers and was "feeling pretty good about myself."
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