BOSTON -- Three Brockton High School football players are off the team for this week's Thanksgiving Day game and next week's playoff game after being charged with various alcohol-related offenses.

One player was charged with drunken driving and two others were cited by Avon police for having open containers of beer during a vehicle stop.

Quarterback Samuel Previte won't be playing in the Thanksgiving game, and neither will starting kicker James McAvoy or linebacker Edward Cassidy

The three players were stopped by Avon police Saturday shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Central Street. Cassidy faces drunken driving charges, while his two teammates were cited for having open containers of alcohol in the car.

They were stopped after someone reported a car smashing into shopping carts in back of the Costco in Avon.

Principal Susan Szachowicz told the three football players they would miss the next two games and it would be up to the coach to decide if they play future games this year if the team makes it into the Division 1 Super Bowl.

"There is something very special about the Thanksgiving Day football game at home in Brockton on Thanksgiving, and these young men won't know what that's like," Szachowicz said.

School administrators said they are following the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association's guidelines in suspending the students for two games after they were allegedly caught with alcohol on Saturday night.

"We don't know who will play quarterback," football player Lucas Depina said.

Depina was practicing Tuesday to fill in Thursday as kicker.

Some classmates feel the punishment doesn't fit the crime.

"They're not going to do well without their star players, so I think they should let them play," one student said.