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Jerry Sandusky’s Face Is Still On A For-Sale Deck Of Cards, According To USA Today

Jerry Sandusky is a very, very unpopular man. That, of course, is easy to understand, considering he’s facing 52 criminal counts of sexual abuse against children – just about the worst thing anyone can be charged of, many, many times over. He’s so unpopular, in fact, that a poll a while back found him to be the least popular person they’d ever recorded.

And given the rampant revulsion at the mere mention of Sandusky’s name, you’d think any mention of his name – especially in any products a store might sell – would be furiously scrubbed and/or removed for all time. He hasn’t been convicted in a court of law yet, but public opinion has spoken forcefully. So imagine the surprise of USA Today’s Robert Klemko when he walked into The Family Clothesline, a store in State College, Pa. that specializes in Penn State products, and saw this image on a deck of cards:

Klemko said the deck, which highlights “football heroes of Penn State,” was printed in 2008 – i.e. before Sandusky became an object of national disgust. Still, though, it’s hard to imagine there’s going to be any interest in a product bearing this guy’s name in any form – or that this deck of cards will be on sale at the store much longer. We contacted The Family Clothesline to see if this hypothesis was correct, and we’ll update this post if and when we hear back from them. Until then… gross.

[h/t SPORTSbyBROOKS]