As if returning home after a tough loss wasn’t brutal enough, Old Dominion had much more to deal with when they got back to Norfolk early Sunday morning after a 61-48 loss to Virginia Commonwealth. Some of their jerseys and sneakers were gone. The Monarchs are scheduled to face Northeastern at home on Monday night, but they will be forced to wear their blue road uniforms on their home court.
According to WAVY-TV 10 in Norfolk, someone broke into the locker room and took about half of the shoes as well as the smaller home jerseys and left the larger ones. Apparently it does pay to be tall in our society.
“Occasionally, you’ll have a bloody uniform by the bench or a single uniform someone gets at because it’s in a game environment,” Old Dominion coach Blane Taylor said. “Like someone takes a jersey off and throws it in the air, but I’ve never had a break-in like this. They took uniforms that would fit someone of a slighter build. They didn’t take real big, big jerseys.”
Police are investigating the theft and the Monarchs expect to have new home jerseys at some point in February. If I was in the market for an authentic, game-worn Old Dominion jersey before this incident, I’d probably hold off on shopping for a bit.
Chest bump to The Dagger for the story
