There's something about watching football confined to its perfect grids, bedecked in high-tech, painted helmets with slow-mo replays and an infinite number of replacement balls that feels sterile and removed from the childhood joys of the game. Thankfully, a veritable group of little rascals during the Penn State vs Indiana game are here to remind you of just how epic it feels to retrieve a lost ball.You could almost call this scenario "The Sandlot" of football, except without a Babe Ruth-signed ball at stake. These kids were just missing one regular ball, and they started standing on each others' shoulders—with their buddies down below doubled over in laughter—sending a legion of projectiles into the tree to try and knock it out, only to get those stuck too.It's all reminiscent of the tree lizard epidemic in the Simpsons.They're only causing themselves more problems with their solutions.Right now, to those kids—who don't have steady adult paychecks to just say fuck it and purchase a new ball—there's nothing more important than getting that ball out of that tree. And that's what makes this more entertaining than the actual football game being played just yards away. (Though those "kids" are not getting paid either.)
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