Gotta say, this video choked me up a bit. Great for him!

Yep it sure is easy to tear up watching that video. I here they are nowthinking of making a feature film of it

I'm new to this site, and honestly expected the top vids to be the same as on youtube and google..bunch of chicks dancing or kareoke rehashes. I'd not seen this video before until seeing it on videosoft...and all I can say is WOW...This is why sites like this need to exist, to get stuff like this unburied and out there. This video was just awesome. I'm super glad for that kid, I'm sure he'll remember that game for the rest of his life.

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Thanks for the kind words Joe - We believe in people power to sift the good stuff. Welcome to the community.

BTW, I was reading somewhere that they have optioned the movie rights for this story - cool stuff.

amazing, i'm so tired of seeing idiots blow themsleves up or iraqi war sniper videos. or drinking contest puke sessions...this is classic.

Yea this guy is a great kid. It's amazing what people can do. Although I can say I've heard enough of it, since I live in Rochester, New York, only 10 minutes away from the high school that he goes to.

They actually are working on a script for the movie or so I've heard. Although how long can the movie really be? That whole clip basically explains it all.

i saw this clip on ebaumsworld.com. it also had another clip that i think goes a little more in depth, but the point remains the same in both. i would definatly go see that movie.

OH MY GOD! I've had a lot of goosebumps! BRILLIANT MOMENT!!!

you can't make this up. Thank you very much for posting this.

*nominate

This video has been nominated as a top video of 2006 (nominate called by gold star member mlx)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_McElwain

*promote

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Sunday 26th February 2006 (promotion called by gold star member silvercord)

go whitey go

*sport

a tear to the eye...

as the mother of an autistic child, I really appreciate this video being up there...

*1stTube

Adding video to channels (1sttube) - requested by Grimm.

definitely *sports, too!

Adding video to channels (Sports) - requested by maatc.

*promote

Promoting this classic video back to the front page; last published Sunday, April 8th, 2007 11:39pm PDT - promote requested by Deano.

Love this one. It's from my hometown - Rochester, NY.

Greece is the NW suburb of Rochester where I grew up. This happened at Greece Athena High School. I went to Greece Olympia, right down the road.

*happy highchool *kids do the darndest things.
and hopefully, coming to a *cinema near you...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_McElwain

and kulpims sent me this related sift, yesterday.
i need a new playlist for this kind of stuff, specifically.
"handicapable" maybe, something like that, but not corny.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'basketball, autism, amazing' to 'basketball, autism, amazing, zone, spree, Rochester, Greece, Athena, highschool, McElwain' - edited by my15minutes

I *promote those extremely few things that nearly makes me cry

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, November 9th, 2007 8:51am PST - promote requested by rasch187.

Excellent

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, July 10th, 2008 5:29am PDT - promote requested by kronosposeidon.

Whoa.

*length=2:11

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 2:11 - length declared by radx.

Just saw this *quality happy vid on reddit, and instantly knew it must've made a splash here on the sift. I was right.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by hpqp.

I wonder why two people downvoted.

Probably in an effort to reverse the Voldemort effect.

>> ^SlipperyPete:

Probably in an effort to reverse the Jake Simabukuro effect.


we never say that name.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^SlipperyPete:
Probably in an effort to reverse the Jake Simabukuro effect.

we never say that name.


fixed!

Act Of Sportsmanship Gives Texas High Schooler Shot At Glory has been added as a related post - related requested by silvercord on that post.

*Promote because J-Mac was at it again April of this year!

http://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/j-mac-plays-with-the-razorsharks
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/2016/04/10/mac-scores-points-razorsharks/82880606/

He also had a limited bobblehead made after his likeness: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jason-McElwain-J-MAC-Rochester-Red-Wings-Bobble-Head-/151847113889

He received an espy award, as well: http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=granderson/080717

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, February 26th, 2006 4:29am PST - promote requested by poolcleaner.