All-about-me sports got a rare moment of humanity worth celebrating

I don’t know much about him except that he’s a 6-foot-1, 225-pound senior linebacker named Aiden Fisher who plays for Indiana. 

I also know, based on what I saw last Saturday on Fox, that he’s hopelessly out of touch with modern expectations of college football players who have been pre-conditioned by TV to be rewarded for all the wrong reasons. 

It came after the last play in an intense back-and-forth ending of Indiana at Penn State — a desperation incompletion thrown by PSU’s determined freshman QB Ethan Grunkemeyer, a midseason replacement for an injured starter, before Fisher knocked him down. 

Fisher then broke the code of conduct. Instead of celebrating like a Los Angeles looter — taunting the Penn State crowd or perhaps rushing to midfield to stomp on the Nittany Lions’ logo and perhaps ignite a brawl — he reached down to extend an arm to Grunkemeyer, lifting him to his feet, then gave him an admiring, sympathetic, great-game pat on his helmet.