Sachem apologizes for crude signs targeting girlfriends of William Floyd players

The Sachem School District is promising to discipline a handful of high school boys who taunted William Floyd’s football team with crude, sexually suggestive signs aimed at players’ girlfriends.

One poster showed a Floyd player and his girlfriend with a crude question about them. Another sign read “let me touchdown” on one of the opposing player’s girlfriends.

The signs surfaced Friday night during the third annual National Football Foundation Kickoff Classic at Sachem North’s Fred Fusaro Alumni Stadium. Sachem North won 35-13.

Trombetta’s message was sent to members of the Sachem schools community. While it offered an apology to William Floyd, some members of the William Floyd community thought it needed to go further.

“The so-called apology issued yesterday was strictly delivered to Sachem families only,” Paul Horst, who has relatives on William Floyd’s football team, told Greater Long Island. “The apology also generalized the community, and was not directed at the real victims — the only people who truly deserve the apology. The teen girls and boys who were victimized on these posters.”

One fan recorded a scuffle between the sign holders and other fans.

Sachem told the New York Post that security workers confiscated the signs from the teens once they were spotted.

Not everyone agrees with that account. People at the game said administrators never reprimanded the students or told them to put the signs away, the Post reported.

The signs, held up in a student section at the far end zone, led to a confrontation and scuffle between the teens and the girlfriend of one Floyd player who was pictured on a sign. A relative of hers told the Post she was spat on by a boy in the group.

A source at the game told the Post that many Sachem students in the section were equally appalled and tried to get their peers to put the signs away earlier in the night.

In her letter to parents, Trombetta said the messages don’t reflect the respect and sportsmanship the district expects, and that the behavior won’t be tolerated.

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