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Football Player Gives Up Touchdown for Grieving Teammate
So this video might not make you cry, but the story probably will. Michael Ferns, a senior at St. Clairsville High in Clairsville, OH, gave up a touchdown one yard from the end zone so that his teammate, Logan Thompson, whose father died two days before, could score instead.
Hear an Amazing Story of Survival During Hurricane Sandy
There have been a lot of awful or inspiring stories coming out of Hurricane Sandy. This manages to be both. A man found a note in his house scrawled by a person who had taken a blanket to keep hypothermia at bay. The author of the note was sure he was dying.
See Devastating Before and After Photos of Hurricane Sandy
While many people took to Facebook bragging about how much booze they stockpiled and how Hurricane Sandy wasn't very strong at all, the following heartbreaking scenes were happening in other places. It's awful. To give you a better idea of the destruction, we've provided before pictures as well. In case you thought maybe people like to swim down FDR drive.
Hurricane Sandy Photos – The Amazing Moments You Have to See
As predicted, Hurricane Sandy created one crazy night. Millions without power, explosions, flooding and at least 18 people dead. Don't let your braggedy friends on Facebook convince you this wasn't a big deal. It was crazy. Here are some pics to sum up what happened. Feel free to share your photos in the comments.
Final Presidential Debate Gets ‘Song-ified’
While everyone else was sitting around making jokes about horses and bayonets, the 'Autotune the News' folks were working hard to turn Monday night's debate into a song. This is what they came up with.
Watch the Worst Game Show Answers in TV History
This is how people humiliated themselves on television before reality TV. This compilation takes the best of people's hilariously embarrassing wrong answers from game shows old and new and puts them all in one place. So you can spend 13 minutes shaking your head and chuckling nonstop...
Marching Band Covers Classic Video Game Themes
Anybody who was in high school marching band can go ahead and hang their head in shame now. The Ohio State University marching band just made all those mornings you woke up early to practice 'Taking It to the Streets' totally obsolete.
Adorable Kids Discuss Politics, Quickly Get Off Topic
Watching kids try to answer questions about politics is like watching a cat look at itself in the mirror -- it's funny because they don't know what we know. And also it's really cute. For example, our president is "Broccoli Llama," and when asked what party she belongs to, a little girls says "I can't do this question...
‘Autotune the News’ Turns Presidential Debate Musical
That's what was missing from yesterday's debate -- a keytar! Brilliant YouTuber Schmoyoho went through footage of the debate from last night between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and made it into quite a catchy little song. One way or another, you WILL be interested in politics this election season...
Watch Jimmy Fallon’s Awesome Theme Song Medley
It's another Jimmy Fallon musical masterpiece. This time he joins the cast of the new NBC show 'Guys With Kids' to celebrate the lost art of the TV theme song...by singing a four-minute medley of some of the greatest themes of all time. Added bonuses: audience singalong (naturally) plus a 'Mary Tyler Moore' freeze frame...
‘The Avengers’ Gets the Honest Trailer Treatment
It's the movie that had all of Marvel's favorite franchises ... "except for 'Spiderman,' 'Fantastic Four' and 'X-Men.' The funny folks at ScreenJunkies are back with another Honest Trailer, this time for 'The Avengers.' Go ahead and give it a watch if you don't mind feeling mildly embarrassed that you liked ' The Avengers' as much as you did...
U Can’t Touch This Obama/MC Hammer Mashup
Remember the "you didn't build that" debacle? It turns out if you take enough of President Obama's words out of context you can make him do a little rap song that sounds remarkably like "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer. Bonus at 2:52 -- turns out the president is ticklish...
iPhone 5 Spoof Points Out Phone’s Many Shortcomings
The new iPhone 5 looks great, but we did have concerns about "scroll fatigue" and not being able to take one of those snazzy panoramic shots with just one click. That's why these guys came up with a phone that is nearly 800% taller than the original iPhone...