Paterno feels good after hospital visit
He even suggested he’d like to keep coaching longer.
‘Realistically, at my age, if I go three, four, five (more) years, that would be great,’ Paterno said.
The 81-year-old Hall of Fame coach went to the hospital for several hours Thursday, then flew to Austin on Friday to attend a dinner at the University of Texas to support an endowed chair in global affairs named after Longhorns coach Mack Brown.
Before the dinner, Paterno cracked jokes with reporters about how his age makes people worry every time he feels the slightest bit ill.
‘Yesterday I didn’t think this event was getting enough press. I decided to go to the hospital and see if I could spruce it up a bit,’ Paterno said. ‘I feel good.’
Paterno had been working at home late in the morning Thursday when he began feeling nauseated. He said his family doctor told him to go to the hospital as a precaution and he was taken by ambulance to Mount Nittany Medical Center. Paterno had tests at the hospital but was not admitted and was back home by Thursday evening.