A Dallas Cowboys cheerleader is calling out the Green Bay Packers players claiming they were disrespectful to her and other cheerleaders during the Packers-Cowboys playoff game last Sunday.
Accoridng to Yahoo she said
“I have never experienced such disrespect from the other teams’ players to the cheerleaders in my five years as an NFL cheerleader,” Darian Lassiter said in a TikTok video posted Wednesday night.
She gave an example of when the Packers scored a touchdown, the players would come up to her and her teammates, who she said were standing on the sidelines “minding our own business,” and start yelling at them and getting close to their faces.
Several of Lassiter’s teammates echoed her complaint in the comments of the video, writing,
“They were extremely disrespectful to us and I was shocked” and “Yet we have to stand there and accept the disrespect.” One teammate wrote that she “literally was on the verge of tears.”
Lassiter said she feels like the yelling would fall under unsportsmanlike conduct, which players can be fined thousands of dollars for.
“It’s so crazy how they can’t do that to the Cowboys players or any other players, but they can do it to the cheerleaders and nothing’s going to happen,” she said. “I understand the playoffs is a huge deal. I truly get it, but that does not mean your humbleness and respect for women flies out the window.”
Neither the Cowboys or the Packers immediately responded to a request for comment.
Some NFL cheerleaders have been fighting for fair pay and equal treatment in the last few years, but many say they are are afraid to speak up out of fear that NFL teams would just get rid of the squad instead of making changes.
In 2014, some cheerleaders for the Buffalo Bills sued the team for unfair pay and poor working conditions. A few days later, the Bills suspended the cheerleading squad. Ten years later, they’re still not back.
Green Bay won Sunday’s game 48-32.
Lassiter ended her video saying now that the Cowboys are out of the playoffs, she’s rooting for every team but the Packers.
Watch:
@darianlassiter The disrespect be crazy #nfl #playoffs #cowboys #packers #storytime #nflcheerleader ♬ original sound – Darian Lassiter
Her comment section from the video is split on the topic.
Some took the opportunity to call out the Packers in her support others are skeptical about her story because she did not ‘name the players’ and there is seemingly no video evidence.
@Green Bay Packers can you hold your men and team accountable? this is embarassing your team can contain their feelings w/ other players for the sake of fines but not women?
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@Green Bay Packers let’s teach these GROWN ASS MEN to act accordingly shall we????? So uncalled for & frankly embarrassing as hell ?
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@NFL @Green Bay Packers DO BETTER AND TREAT WOMEN LIKE HOW YALL WOULD WANT PEOPLE TO TREAT THE WOMEN IN YOUR FAMILY!! Shame on y’all!!
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Really don’t want to say this is a lie but there are cameras every where especially during a playoff game if this really happened someone would have released the video…
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but why not name the player? Or give a jersey number? Because that would be verifiable. Instead just say some guys on that team that just embarrassed my team
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Wouldn’t there be video footage from the constant filming NFL if this happened? Name the player(s).
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Seriously… they stand BEHIND their own team’s sideline and not near the end zone. They would have to literally go through Cowboys to get near them.
