By Bill Galluccio
Jun 3, 2021
An Ohio high school football coach and his seven assistants have been suspended after they forced a Jewish player to eat an entire pepperoni pizza as punishment. An attorney for the family of the unnamed 17-year-old player said that he went into the gym at McKinley High School on May 24 and was told he was being punished for missing a voluntary strength and conditioning practice four days earlier.
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When the player showed up for practice, his coaches made him sit in a chair in the middle of the gym and handed him an entire pepperoni pizza and ordered him to eat it. The player refused, citing his religious beliefs against eating pork. Eventually, the coaches allowed him to pick off the pepperoni, but the teen continued to protest because the pizza still had pepperoni residue on it.