It looks like JoePa’s side of the road-rage incident is out:

According to sources, Coach Paterno was following a car that he thought was being driven erratically, and observed the driver of said car nearly cause an accident to take place. Paterno, upon witnessing the near accident, confronted the woman driving the car to make her aware that he witnessed the incident and that he was taking down her license plate number. The source claims the encounter between Paterno and the motorist was both brief and civil.

Unable to exercise control over his own players, it looks like Joe’s turned to coaching random motorists.

# 2007 Oct 10