I assume somebody at Simon & Schuster also decided the video Joe Posnanski did promoting Paterno was no longer appropriate.

As you can see when you hit play, it says: “This video has been removed by user.”

The video also can’t be found on Youtube (where it existed yesterday) and on the Amazon page for the book, which is where I saw it in the first place last week.

However, the video still can be seen on a Deadspin post that says Sports Illustrated decided to pass on running an excerpt on the book. Not sure why that’s the case. If I’m missing something here, please let me know.

Here’s the link of what I wrote earlier today about the video being off base in the wake of the Freeh Commission Report. Posnanski did the two-minute prior to last Thursday when Louis Freeh hammered Paterno and Penn State.

The video has a graphic with a header that reads: “Joe Paterno: Educator. Coach. Humanitarian.”

I’ve heard Paterno called many things in the last week, but “humanitarian” isn’t one of them.

Anyway, an interesting day for Posnanski and his book. Surely more to come in advance of the book being released Aug. 21.