Cowboys cheerleader calls out Packers football players for game behaviour
A cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys has been speaking out about what she saw at last weekâs playoff game against the Green Bay Packers.
Darian Lassiter took to TikTok to give her perspective on the âdisrespectâ during the 14 January game. The Wild Card Round matchup ended with a win for the Packers with a final score of 48 to 32.
âSo I cheer for the Cowboys and yâall I have never experienced such disrespect from the other teamâs players to the cheerleaders in my five years as an NFL cheerleader,â her clip began.
The cheerleader then began listing examples for what the players were doing during the football game. She said when the Packers would score a touchdown, they would come up to the Cowboys cheerleaders and âstart yelling.â Lassiter mentioned that personal boundaries werenât always taken into account as the yelling would sometimes occur only inches away from the cheerleadersâ faces.
âI feel like thatâs unsportsmanlike conduct,â she said in her TikTok. âItâs so crazy how they canât do that to the Cowboys players or other players, but they can do it to the cheerleaders and nothingâs gonna happen.â
âI understand the playoffs are a huge huge deal, like I truly get it. But that does not mean your humbleness and respect for women flies out the window.â
She concluded: âIâm rooting for every team but them now that the Cowboys are out.â
After Lassiterâs video was viewed over 600,000 times some people took to the TikTokâs comments section to express how bad they felt for her.
âI can only imagine how uncomfortable and possibly unsafe that must have felt and itâs not like you can walk away. So distasteful. You are a lovely representation of strength and poise for DCC,â one comment read.
Another commenter agreed, writing, âI applaud you for speaking up. All the love from a life long Cowboys and DCC fan next door in Fort Worth. Rooting for any team but the Packers now as well.â
âAs someone from GB & a pack fan, this is NOT the Packers way. Iâm so sorry you experienced this!!â a third commenter wrote.
Even another fellow Cowboys cheerleader chimed in writing, âAmen! They were extremely disrespectful to us and I was shocked.â
However, many people also werenât sure whether or not the cheerleader was telling the truth and pointed out that she had no evidence she could use to actually prove this happened.
âThing is all those cameras, all the fans and not one other person saw this? The stadium was full of cowboy fans youâre telling me not one person would have recorded this?â one commenter questioned.
âCorrect me if Iâm wrong, but why not name the player?â another commenter pointed out. âOr give a jersey number? Because that would be verifiable. Instead just say some guys on that team that just embarrassed my team.â
âWhere is the footage?! You canât be blasting this out there and not have evidence girl!! Funny how this is just now being posted the day before the Packers have a big game. Very classy,â a third comment read.
The Independent has asked the Green Bay Packers and Darian Lassiter for comment.