More than 200 former Penn State football players attached their name to a letter requesting that Penn State return Joe Paterno's statue to its place outside Beaver Stadium. The group believes that the statue and the players wall "should have never been removed in the first place," according to their group statement, and it was the Penn State administration that put Paterno in the middle of "an undeserved negative media frenzy in 2011."

In addition to calling for the Paterno statue to be returned to its original place, the letter calls for an official apology to Sue Paterno.

Penn State responded with a statement from a university spokesman. Judging by the statement, it doesn't sound like there will be a return of the statue any time soon.

"We appreciate the passion of our former Penn State letterman for Coach Joe Paterno and the football program, and thank them for their input and many contributions/achievements. We recognize that this is emotional for many in the Penn State community, many of whom differ, yet feel strongly about this issue," the statement read. "The University's leadership has clearly indicated that there will be a time and place to acknowledge Coach Joe Paterno's many contributions. Any plans by the president to reach out to the Paterno family will be done privately."

Ben Jones, terrific Penn State reporter and sports editor for StateCollege.com, has compiled the list of former players who are on board with the call to bring back the Joe Paterno statue. With a much higher percentage of older players -- ones who knew Paterno as an assistant (1950-65) or in his first years as a head coach -- supporting the cause, Jones found the perfect opportunity to crack a Brexit joke.


Jones even elaborated, noting that there are "more signatures from the 1950s than Penn State's last Big Ten title team."

Here's the full list of players who signed the letter, according to StateCollege.com:

1950's: Robert Belus, Frank Della Penna, Charles Koval, Daniel Maddigan, Fran Bucky Paolone, James Scott, John Storer

1960's: Ronald Adams, Alex Chiara, Peter Cimino, Jack Curry, Alan Delmonaco, Gary Eberle, John Eppensteiner, Gerry Farkas, Ed Gabriel, Chuck Gambone, Warren Hartenstine, Robert Kline, George Kulka, Jon Lang, Linc Lincoln Lippincott, Thomas McGrath, Dave McNaughton, Pete Ochsner, Bill Rettig, Jack Sain, Ted Sebastianelli, Gary Shaffer, Thomas Stuart, Jack White, Gary H. Wydman, Joe Zelinsky

1970's: Frank Ahrenhold, Russell Albert, Kurt Allerman, Ferris Atty, John Balena, Bruce Bannon, Dave Brockway, Richard M. Brown, Chuck Burkhart, John W. Bush, Bobby Campbell, John Cappelletti, Michael Cappelletti, Joseph V. Carlozo, Thomas Greg Christian, Craig Coder, Ron Coder, F. Len Consalvo, Bill Crummy, Steven A. Davis, Gary W. Debes, Thomas F. Donchez, William Ericsson, Morris Fansler, Chuck Fusina, Michael Gilsenan, Bill Glennon, Tony Gordon, David F. Graf, Gary Gray, Mike Guman, Brian Hand, Jim Heller, Scott Hettinger, Ron Hostetler, Thomas M. Hull, John Huttenberger, Gary Klossner, Bob Knechtel, Richard A. Knechtel, Joe Lally, Ron LaPointe, Philip F. LaPorta, John R. Lewchenko, Kevin Lyden, Brian Masella. Peter Michaelson, Robert Nagle, Joe Navin, John Nessel, Richard N. Nichols, Ed O'Neil, Michael A. Orsini M.D., Ron Pavlechko, Woody Petchel, Jr., Gary Petercuskie, Charles Pittman, Carlos Quirch, Tom Rafferty, Joel Ramich, George Reihner, John M. Reihner, James E. Rosecrans, C. Douglas Rothgaber, George SanFilippo, Bernard Shalvey, Tom L. Shoemaker, Tom Shuman, Derek Smith, John P. Susko, Gary R. Tyler, Michael Urquhart, Kip Vernaglia, Marshall Wagner

1980's: Roger Alexander, Mark Battaglia, Jeff Bergstrom, Kirk Bowman, Tim Bronish, Jeff Brunie, Bruce Clark, Bill Contz, Tom Couch, Peter Curkendall, Rick D'Amico, John DePasqua, Dean DiMidio, Michael Dunlay, Eric Etze, Craig Fiedler, Tim Freeman, Brennan Gaertner, Gene Gladys, John W. Greene, Nick Haden, Greg Hay, Stu Helgeson, Joseph Hines, John Hornyak, Robert Jagers, Joe Johns, Ken Kelley, Massimo Manca, Carmen Masciantonio, Jay McCormick, Mike Meade, Rob Mikulski, Robert Mrosko, Aoatoa Polamalu, Kevin Romango, Michael Russo, Rich Schonewolf, Brian Siverling, Patrick Slater, Rob Smith, Pete Speros, Tim Sweeney, Blair Thomas, Darryl Washington, Jeff Woofter

1990's: John Andress, Michael Barninger, Dave Brzenchek, Robert Ceh, Keith Conlin, Brett Conway, Daniel Drogan, Adam Fahrer, Chafi Fields, Derek Fox, Rudolph Glocker, Ryan Grube, Mike Heller, Leonard Humphries, Greg Huntington, Corey Jones, Scott Kaufmann, Jeffrey Koontz, Chad Linnon, Mike Malinoski, Christian Marrone, David Miller, Bradley Pantall, James Scourtis, Dave Smith, William Spoor, Brian Stairs, Justin Williams

2000's: Tyler Ahrenhold, Drew Astorino, Jason Bisson, Nick Daise, Steven Delich, Tom Humphrey, Justin Ingram, Cedric Jeffries, Andrew Kubic, John Kuceyeski, Justin Kurpeikis, Ben Lago, Nick Marmo, Shawn Mayer, James Mitchell, Michael Pawlikowski, Andrew Pitz, Paul Posluszny, Ryan Primanti, Curt Reese, Matt Schmitt, Bryan Scott, Ryan Scott, Mickey Shuler, Alan Zemaitis

2010's: Jesse Alfreno, Larry Federoff, Patrick Flanagan, Eric Flohr, Stephen Obeng-Agyapong

Coaches: John Bove & Staff, Booker Brooks, Don Carlino, Craig Cirbus, Raymond J. Horan, Allen Meyer, George Salvaterra, Keith Richeal