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Teen Breaks Florida Gators' Championship Trophy

Whoops! Remember that Waterford crystal trophy the Gators got for winning the National title in January of 2007? A Florida teen's already wrecked it.

Tampa, Florida (WTSP) -- Plant High School tight end Orson Charles may be known as an outstanding football player, but now he'll likely be better known as the person who broke the Florida Gator's 2006 BCS National Championship trophy. It seems Charles was at the University of Florida this past weekend for a NIKE sponsored camp when he accidentally knocked over the handcrafted Waterford crystal trophy outside of football coach Urban Meyer’s office. Charles, through his high school football coach Robert Weiner, declined to talk about the incident on camera but his coach did tell WTSP-TV that the stand-out prep player felt bad about the whole incident.A spokesperson for the UF Athletic Department says the school did have two of the 2006 trophies. He also says the trophy that was broken was insured and that the Gators have already begun the process of ordering a new one. The trophy has a value of $35,000.Charles, who has more than a dozen football scholarship offers including one from Florida, will be a senior at Plant next season

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