Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the video that will soon be posted on 2 million Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as every blog from here to the European site that copies all of our posts, and I fully endorse the attention it’s about to receive. Tweeted earlier by Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina, this video is one of the rare reminders that there are good people left in this country and we’re not completely surrounded by hateful scumbags who are so miserable that their only natural recourse is to try to make the rest of us miserable.

But enough about politicians, this is about a guy named Kyle and the impact that he has had on his friends. An impact so strong, that it led to this heart-warming story and video. Watch it after the jump and I dare you not to reach for your Claritin.

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In the least surprising news of the month and possibly year, suspended New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma is still super pissed off at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for making him the poster boy of what was lazily dubbed “Bountygate”. For a refresher, the league banned Vilma for a year – as well as Gregg Williams for eternity and Sean Payton for the season, among others – because of a cooler full of evidence that was delivered to the NFL by George Bluth’s former secretary Kitty, if I’ve understood this whole thing correctly.

Vilma has since called baloney on Goodell, as has Drew Brees and other Saints players, but Ol’ Iron Fist Goodell ain’t care. So Vilma has now responded in the most drastic manner possible – he banned Goodell from his Miami BBQ restaurant, Brother Jimmy’s. How serious is Vilma? He hung a sign in the window.

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