Paul Horst is demanding action after students at a rival high school flashed sexually explicit signs targeting young women during a Long Island football game.
Horst, who has relatives on the William Floyd football team, said the posters displayed during Friday night’s matchup against Sachem North went far beyond typical rivalry behavior. The signs featured photographs and full names of players’ girlfriends alongside crude sexual messages, leaving families outraged and multiple girls humiliated.
“There were numerous signs being held by students about doing things to their girlfriends — they even had names and faces on their signs — these poor girls had to be victimized by this,” Horst said.
One poster showed a William Floyd player and his girlfriend with the question of who is “easier to score on.” Another sign asked if the Sachem North students could “touchdown” on a different girl after the game concluded.
The confrontation escalated when one of the girls pictured on a sign approached the group of Sachem North students to demand they put the posters away. According to a relative of the girl who spoke with The Post, one of the boys in the group responded by spitting on her.
A small intersex scuffle then broke out between the two parties, according to video of the incident shared by a relative and viewed by The Post.
Horst said administrators failed to intervene as the signs remained visible throughout the game. “Nothing was being done by anyone,” he said about the school’s response and allowing the students to display the disgusting signs.
The bullies, according to people who attended the game, were not reprimanded nor told to put the signs away by school officials overseeing the event.
The incident has intensified calls from fuming parents for disciplinary measures against the students involved and accountability from Sachem North’s administration. The use of identifiable photographs and names has raised particular concern, as the targeted girls had no apparent connection to the football rivalry beyond their relationships with players.
Sachem North is located in the Sachem Central School District in Suffolk County, while William Floyd High School serves the nearby Mastic Beach area. The two schools have a long-standing athletic rivalry that typically draws large crowds to their matchups.
The Friday night game marked the latest chapter in that competition, though the tone shifted dramatically when students brought the explicit signs into the stands rather than confining taunts to on-field action.
The district has not issued a public statement addressing the specific allegations of spitting or the content of the signs.