Eight players from a Philadelphia youth football team allegedly stole over $2,000 worth of merchandise from a Dick’s Sporting Goods while in Florida for a national championship tournament, as the local sheriff tore into the “ultimate loser” coach who cried to get the kids’ charges dropped.

The juvenile suspects, part of the United Thoroughbreds under-14 team, were hours away from kickoff in the Prolifix Nationals tournament when they decided to take an Uber to the store in Davenport, Florida, on Dec. 6, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said.

The delinquents were captured on security cameras entering the store just before 11 a.m. where they launched the daylight heist, according to footage shared by the sheriff’s office.

One of the kids, 15-year-old Marcus Hudgens, made a purchase at a

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