The most famous eyewear in college football is a thing of the past.


Sort of.

Penn State coach Joe Paterno, whose thick-lens glasses had become a trademark in his 44 years at the helm of the Nittany Lions, has had surgery to correct his vision.

“I had trouble reading for the last six months, so I went down to Philadelphia to the Penn Scheie Eye Institute,” the 83-year-old said. “And the guy says to me … I think we can fix that up. So they went in and did it. I don't really need glasses any more.” read more
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I can't imagine JoePa walking the sidelines without his glasses. It just won't be the same.

Mainly what it says is that his vision is about where mine is, where I still use glasses for distance vision and such but I could do fine without them. For example, when my glasses became so fogged it was like the windows of a steel mill (you know how warped they are) during snowpiling, I put my glasses in my pocket and finished snowpiling without them. Still, it'd look weird seeing JoePa without those famous glsses. But still, glasses or not, so long as he's bringing PSU to the Rose Bowl and, it's all good, although I think 2010 won't be that good.

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