While I get that this is a good kid and he was doing what he thought was sportsmanlike for not running up the score, I have a different opinion about this. Growing up playing football, baseball and wrestling, I would find it more humiliating that this dude took a knee. No self respecting athlete wants a handout. Even the losing team knows he could have scored and just because the score doesn't read that in the paper, I'll bet you that the paper made a big deal out of his "sportsmanship". That would therefore put more of an emphasis on what the score could have been than what it was, had it not been for someone feeling sorry for the losers. If he really wanted to be a sport he could have let himself get tackled and quietly not run up the score. Again, I do get what he was trying to do and he sounds like a great kid.