A Dallas Cowboys cheerleader was knocked down by a soccer throughout Sunday’s sport in opposition to the Washington Commanders after a second quarter kickoff.
Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey punted the ball, and because it was going out of bounds, it hit Michelle Siemienowski, a Cowboys cheerleader who was acting on the sidelines at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and knocked her down. Afterward, video showed Siemienowski recovering from the hit, smiling and laughing with tears in her eyes.
A Cowboys rep informed HuffPost that Siemienowski was checked by a health care provider and is “doing positive.” Siemienowski wrote on her Instagram tales that she is all proper, including, “Claiming the motto: cry now, snigger later.”
The cheerleaders, who carry out at each dwelling sport, dance and cheer on the sidelines all through the sport, on the sphere earlier than the sport, and through quarter breaks. In 2011, former Cowboys cheerleader Melissa Kellerman was by chance tackled by former Cowboys tight end Jason Witten. Shortly after, she wrote on social media, “I’m not the most effective at Jason Witten belief falls” and “Not hurtin’ immediately, like a few of y’all thought I might be! Our TE isn’t as powerful as he appears…That or I’m WAY harder than I look.”
Cowboys cheerleaders have additionally had some disagreeable run-ins with soccer gamers from different groups. Final yr, cheerleader Darian Lassiter said in a TikTok video that Inexperienced Bay Packers gamers have been disrespectful to her and different cheerleaders and yelled of their faces throughout a Packers-Cowboys playoff sport.
“It’s so loopy how they’ll’t do this to the Cowboys gamers or another gamers, however they’ll do it to the cheerleaders and nothing’s going to occur,” Lassiter mentioned. “I perceive the playoffs is a large deal. I actually get it, however that doesn’t imply your humbleness and respect for girls flies out the window.”
