Update: Jersey guys make good! The players appeared on "The Today Show" this morning to tell their story.

WAYNE — Surveillance video from the Buddy's Small Lots on Route 23 showed four young men entering the closed store Sunday night, taking a few goods and — wait for it — paying for them in full.

They didn't know it at the time, but they were caught on camera doing the right thing.

A report from News 12 New Jersey about the incident spread far and wide, appearing on local TV stations across the U.S. The Huffington Post called them "accidental burglars," and the store's management wanted to offer them a reward.

Who were these mystery men? New additions to William Paterson University's football team, school officials told NJ.com.

Thomas James, Kell'E Gallimore, Jelani Bruce and Anthony Biondi are all playing their first year of Division III football for the school, and were running some errands before practice on Sunday. They were looking for an audio cable for a set of dorm room speakers and some batteries, and didn't have any luck at Rite Aid, so they walked into Buddy's Small Lots.

The store was closed, but it sure didn't look that way. Store management told News 12 that it was a malfunctioning lock that kept the doors open after the store had closed.

"It looked like it was open," Gallimore told NJ.com. "Some lights were on, some lights were off. No one was at the cash register."

Surveillance footage showed the men wandering around the store in search of the cable and the batteries, calling out for the store clerk they figured was just hiding out back.

"We had to get to practice, because we were running a little late," Bruce said. "So we decided to put the money on the counter instead of stealing it, because that's just not right."

Noticing the security cameras, James held the money up in the air, making it clear they weren't trying to pull anything. That footage would end up on TV, leading Buddy's Small Lots' Marci Lederman to ask the men to come forward.

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"We thought we were in trouble at first," Bruce said. "We didn't know."

They weren't in trouble. After returning to the scene of the non-crime, store management thanked them for their honesty, letting the guys pick out a few things, on the house, for their dorm rooms. Their school is pretty pleased with them, too.

"They represented themselves, their families and the team very well," head football coach Jerry Flora said.

Gallimore said he was "excited" by the attention, but said, "I didn't think it would be a big deal," he said. "Just a $4 wire and a $1 pack of batteries."

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