A youth football team out of Idaho took the name of its team to a whole new meaning Tuesday night – except the players did their work in shorts and tees instead of shining armor.

While traveling home from a victorious championship game in San Jose, California, the Boise Black Knights made an unexpected stop to rescue a couple that was trapped inside an upside-down vehicle off the U.S. Highway 95 in Oregon.

 

The team was on its way home from the Bay Area Spring Football League Tournament of Champions, where it claimed the title. They witnessed the accident around 8:30 p.m.

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The vehicle overturned in front of one of the vans transporting the team and staff. Coach Rudy Jackson and his team filed out of the vans and hurried to the couple’s aid.

"We had to stop and become heroes. It was just a little adversity. ... It's almost an unreal story," Jackson told the Idaho Statesman.

The boys pulled the man out first, but the woman was wedged inside at a tricky angle. At 1:13 in the video, one of the teammates successfully cuts the seat belt from the woman’s lap. She was still stuck.

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The man was clearly in shock from the crash, but the players were quick to comfort him. At 3:00 in the footage, one of the boys grabbed his blanket from the team van and wrapped it around the man.  

In an effort to free the trapped woman, the team gripped the car and lifted it up while another player pulled her out.

Jackson was overwhelmed to see his boys act the way they did.

"I'm more than proud. I'm at a loss for words," he said. "They got out of the car like they were supposed to do that ... it's a great bunch of kids."

Regan Magill, the teammate who captured the incident on his phone, told Good Morning America that Jackson’s lessons about selflessness apply off the field too.

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"He taught us to play selfless football, not selfish and just help others out before yourself."