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Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace (14) drops to throw in the second quarter the #1 Alabama vs #21 Ole Miss NCAA football game, Saturday, September 28, 2013, at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com ORG XMIT: ALBIN401 Alabama Football vs Ole Miss 2013

Members of the University of Mississippi football team reportedly disrupted a campus production with homophobic slurs.

The Daily Mississippian reports that Ole Miss players interrupted a school theater department production of "The Laramie Project," a play about gay man who was murdered in Wyoming.

Cast members struggled to finish the play as audience members, including the players, heckled the actors and shouted homophobic slurs.

“The football players were certainly not the only audience members that were being offensive last night,” play director Rory Ledbetter said. “But they were definitely the ones who seemed to initiate others in the audience to say things, too. It seemed like they didn’t know that they were representing the university when they were doing these things.”

The football players and other student members of the audience were there to fulfill a requirement for a freshman theater class. One of the players apologized backstage on behalf of the group after the play’s second act, according to the story.

Ole Miss Dean Sparky Reardon said the school is investigating the incident.

Coach Hugh Freeze addressed the incident on Twitter saying that the team was working with all departments involved in the matter.