Football Players Busted Trying to Steal Merch From the Football Hall of Fame

Security personnel at the Pro Football Hall of Fame got a big turnover last week after flagging several high school football players for attempting to steal merchandise from its retail store.

The team was from Strongsville High School, which is about an hour north of the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. A tour had been set up for the Strongsville team since they were going to be playing a game in Canton.

The players were intercepted by Hall of Fame security who noticed them walking out of the store with clothing worth hundreds of dollars and notified administrators.

All of the merchandise was returned, and, upon further review, the police were not called, said Rich Desrosiers, chief communications and content officer for the Hall of Fame.

“When we approached the Strongsville school administrators, they immediately responded. Took the allegations seriously. Looked into it, right away,” Desrosiers said, according to Fox 8 in Cleveland. “They were extremely apologetic that anything like that happened and said that they would handle it internally.”

Dan Foust, communications coordinator for Strongsville City Schools, said the students who attempted to take merchandise from the store have been disciplined.

“Our District is aware of the incident involving the theft of merchandise by some of our football players last Friday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame,” Foust said in a statement. “Our High School administrators conducted a thorough investigation and all of the merchandise has been returned. 

“Following this investigation, students who were involved in the theft of items have been disciplined in accordance with our student code of conduct.”