Some local slime stole thousands of dollars in football gear from a couple of Tampa youth football programs, and today the Bucs will cough up cash to help the many kids that would have been out of luck this summer without helmets and more.

The money will be presented by various Buccaneers this afternoon, per TBO.com.

Bucs players and cheerleaders will present checks for $7,500 to the Carrollwood Cardinals and $3,500 to the Highland Pines Cougars. …At 3 p.m. today, Bucs players Connor Barth and Adam Heyward will join cheerleaders at the Jackson Heights Youth Education Town Center in Tampa to present the donation to the Highland Pines Cougars. At 4 p.m., Dallas Clark, Gerald McCoy, Dekoda Watson and cheerleaders will present a check to the Carrollwood Cardinals.

Here’s the sad story of the theft in this Ch. 8 video below.