On Saturday, the Penn State Nittany Lions crushed Temple by a whopping forty-two points.

While the beating Temple received is newsworthy in and of itself, the real story here is that the victory gave Penn State’s head coach, Joe Paterno, his 376th career win, which is one more than his friend and colleague Bobby Bowden, the current coach of Florida State.

That’s right – the venerable and seemingly immortal JoePa is once again the winningest coach in collegiate history. Is anyone really surprised, though? The 81-year-old coach is a mangod amongst pigskin mere mortals.

With the victory, however, has come renewed concerns for the coach’s health.

The Daily Collegian reports:

Paterno's feat became a footnote after a right knee injury sent him to the coaches' booth in the press box for the second half. He took an awkward step and had a pronounced limp as he walked to the locker room at halftime.

 

When he emerged from the locker room, Paterno gingerly took a seat in a golf cart parked outside the locker room doors. Director of football operations Tommy Venturino navigated the cart past applauding fans lining Beaver Stadium's concourse…

 

… He was in obvious discomfort but dodged questions with playful jabs at reporters and dashes of humor.

 

"I don't know," Paterno said when asked how he injured his knee. "I've probably got a picture of you in my room and tried to kick it."

Spoken like a true warrior, JoePa.

Still, this incident does raise some concern: what would happen if Paterno passed on, leaving Penn State with a giantic unfillable void?

Hopefully, I never live to see the day when JoePa no longer walks the Earth.