I think you all are reading this wrong. A kid asks, "Can I get some of that ice," and Culpepper lets him wear them for a while. That's a generous thing to do in my opinion. To assume that he should be able to keep them is an arrogant assumption on anyone's part. I think the sportswriter's allusion's in this article are completely atrocious. He could just as easily written about how Culpepper was generous and let a paralyzed kid wear his bling-bling for awhile when the kid asked. Nothing wrong with that.
Then he should have said 'wear it for a while, but you can't have it'. He gave the boy the impression that he could keep it.