STEPHENTOWN, NY — The son of a former NFL star whose upstate home was destroyed by teens in a break-in party was devastated to learn his boyhood pals took part in the debauchery.
“I know some of the kids that went to the party,” Brian Holloway Jr. told The Post yesterday as he helped his dad, former NFL player Brian Holloway Sr., clean up $20,000 worth of damage.
“They were classmates, childhood best friends, so it was shocking and disappointing,” he said.
Brian Jr., one of eight Holloway kids, went to Stephentown Elementary before moving to Florida. He attended Berlin HS when the family moved back upstate briefly before returning to the Sunshine State.
“I’d try to meet up with people when I would come back as much as I could,” said Brian Jr., 18. “I considered them friends.”
Some of those same kids are now blasting him after Brian’s dad posted their names and photos online as cops investigate the drug- and drink-fueled bash.
“People I know who were at the party contacted me, going on rants,” said Brian Jr., a student at the University of Southern Florida. “There were no apologies or explanations [for the vandalism].”
As The Post first reported yesterday, the parents of several of the revelers have threatened Brian Sr., a former New England Patriots offensive lineman, with lawsuits and physical harm for publicly outing their brats.
The Holloways were home in Florida when kids smashed windows and broke into the house in the New York town about 25 miles southeast of Albany and near the Massachusetts border.
In no time, hordes of the 200 to 300 trespassers were posting photos and messages on Twitter from inside the Holloway home.
“I have a handful of real friends here, and one of them contacted me and said, ‘Is this your house?!’ ” he recalled.
“I said, ‘Oh my God, who’s that on the table?’ I watched the party unravel on Twitter.”
The bash left 10 shattered windows, urine-soaked carpets, gouged oak floors and walls covered in graffiti and holes.
“There were a bunch of underage kids here drinking and doing drugs and that needs to be addressed as a society,” said Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Sgt. Shane Holcomb.
As for the parents angry at Holloway, Holcomb said:
“What parents are most upset about is the fallout on social media. The kids are being threatened via Twitter and on Facebook. As a parent, I say, get them off Twitter, off of Facebook. Send them to their room with a book, not their phones.”
–
The police investigation is continuing.