I’m not even going to try to be clever here (and if you mutter “you mean you’ve been TRYING to be clever all this time?” I’m going to look at you sternly over the top of my glasses and laser you to a puff of smoke, which by the way, is my mother’s superpower I have inherited from her) so I’m just gonna say it:
The person who posted this on the internet is just mean. The person who decided to make it one of the featured headlines on msn.com is just heartless.
I ask you: when you were in high school, how would you have felt about having your mistakes plastered all over the known universe?
Repeat after me: just because you have film of something doesn’t mean you have to circulate it. Just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
© E.S. Evans 2010
Mom, Interrupted 
I hadn’t seen the whole video and didn’t realize the other team scored off of him. Yahoo had an article about it and made it sound like the kid was the biggest moron ever and their clip didn’t show the throwing of the ball… yeah throwing the ball up might not have been his best call but seriously, he was running the wrong way because of the guys chasing him. Which I’ve actually seen work out for a football player multiple times… a kid on my nephew’s teams (they are high school freshman now and have played together for years) is freakishly fast so he’ll run the wrong way occasionally and have the whole other team chasing him but nobody can catch him (it was particularly cute when they were in pee-wee football).
It just went from bad to worse… http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/The-truth-behind-quot-Epic-Football-Fail-quot-?urn=highschool-268342
Really did someone doubt the authenticity of the video?! The link was on Yahoo’s homepage today. The kid and the writer are both jerks.