Florida high school football rivalry prank turns into police investigation

Florida high school football rivalry prank turns into police investigation.

Key points

• Five Super 25 teams lost, including Bishop Gorman, Centennial and Duncanville in what concluded as a wild high school football weekend.
• Five Bishop Kenny High School students were caught trespassing on The Bolles School's football field.
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• "Breaking into our school you goofs just to get killed, " Ghioto wrote, attributing the prank to Bishop Kenny.
• What initially appeared to be a pregame prank escalated into a police matter hours before kickoff between the two Jacksonville, Florida, schools.

Florida high school football rivalry prank turns into police investigation. Alex Martin USA TODAY. Super 25 high school football rewind, Week 3.

For context, the students left two tarps on the field, one with an expletive and another reading "$$$ don't win games."

For context, the incident occurred hours before the rivalry football game between the two Jacksonville schools.

Notably, the tarps were gone by Friday, Sept. 11, but the questions surrounding them weren't.

Two white tarps appeared overnight on The Bolles School's football field ahead of its rivalry game against Bishop Kenny, one carrying an expletive directed at Bolles and the other reading, "$$$ don't win games."

According to a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office incident report obtained by USA TODAY Sports, a Bolles security officer documented seeing five individuals wearing ski masks attempting to climb a fence onto the school's football field shortly after midnight on Friday, Sept. 11.

As the report notes, leaving in a gray Chevrolet pickup truck, the individuals fled when they saw the security officer.

Notably, a sheriff's deputy afterwards ceased a vehicle matching the description and detained five occupants. The report states all five were students at Bishop Kenny High School, with multiple non-football athletes involved. USA TODAY Sports is choosing not to name the five students involved in the incident.

Bolles declined to comment, stating that's a "current legal matter." Bishop Kenny has not responded to requests for comment as of the time of this publication.

As the report notes, the students informed officers their school was scheduled to play Bolles that night and that they wanted to pull a prank by leaving a banner on the field featuring the Bishop Kenny logo.

Meanwhile, the security officer informed police that no property had been stolen or damaged but requested that all five individuals be trespassed from Bolles' campus.

As the report notes, all five were subsequently trespassed from the school and cautioned that they could be arrested if they returned.

Meanwhile, the incident became public the morning of Sept. 11 when Bolles five-star junior Asher Ghioto. This person was a member of USA TODAY Sports preseason All-America team, posted photos of the tarps on his Instagram story.

Once the game began, nevertheless, there was little ambiguity concerning the result. Bolles was dominant, beating Bishop Kenny 35-13 to improve to 2-1 on the season.

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