BelowTheMasonDixon
Veteran
Joe Paterno.
Dude went from being the virtual god of Western Pennsylvania, the top dog of an American institution, the dean of all college football coaches, millions in yearly salaries, and earned favorable comparisons to The Pope, to being a pedo enabler, earning unfavorable comparisons to Catholic priests, abruptly fired, then abruptly dead.
Life is wild.
And they wiped his name off anything related to Penn St. AND took his statue down.
Polanski still directed major movies after his rape scandal and won awards, so he's not even in consideration. Might be the best post-disgrace/scandal career ever. Dude just directed a movie this year.
Is this reserved strictly for black men? There are no white men that fall from grace? I'd go with someone like Phil Spector before I land on R Kelly.