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Ex-NFL star Holloway loses trashed house to bank

A former NFL star whose upstate house was trashed by an out-of-control gang of kids won’t have to worry about the damage anymore — on Tuesday the bank took it away.
Brian Holloway lost his home at a foreclosure auction at the Rensselaer County courthouse.

Holloway’s house was trashed by young people who broke in and broadcast their exploits on social media.

The 197-acre property in rural Stephentown, which earlier this year was listed for $1.5 million, went for just $400,000 to the sole bidder, Berkshire Bank.
In September, Holloway took to the Internet to call out hundreds of local kids who he said caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage after they broke into the 4,000-square-foot home for a Labor Day party while he was away.

The kids, who came from several neighboring towns, posted photos from the bash on Twitter and Instagram, chronicling what cops later said was a booze-and drug-fueled night.
Police have charged eight people, including a 19-year-old who once lived with the Holloway family, in connection with the break-in, and the investigation is ongoing.
Holloway’s house-wrecking went viral after he set up a Web site, using the kids’ own social media posts from the party, to publicly out the revelers.
The move drew outrage from some parents, who threatened to sue claiming the damning shots and the posting of their kids’ names would hurt their college chances.
Holloway, a father of eight who lives in Florida, used the Berkshires-area house as a summer home, but had listed the property for sale.
By September, public records showed he owed more than $1 million on the house and was more than $45,000 in arrears on property taxes.
At the time, Holloway, 54, told The Post he had been working with his lenders to hang on to the home, which he bought 30 years ago when he played for the New England Patriots.
After the sale yesterday, Holloway said he was still fighting for the property.
“This is like being in the third quarter and you’re down by three touchdowns,” he told The Associated Press as he left court. “The game’s not over.”