And an excuse for a Cheerleader Pic
Cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of female high school athlete injuries and for 66.7 percent of female college athlete injuries. -National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research
So does this mean we can officially count cheerleading as a sport? 2 Reasons why not
1. I just typed out “cheerleading” and my spell checker just went bonkers–so if “cheerleading” isn’t even a word how can it be a sport? Can you play cheerlead like you can play Football?
2. If cheerleading ((sic) apparently)) is a sport because of the amount of injuries it causes, then that must mean that sex is a sport because of the clap risk involved. A little ridiculous but an argument can definitely be made. O.K. I feel dirty for just having typed that out–ticket straight to hell.
4 years from now this story will be awesome!
Don’t look at my arm pits
No this isn’t a joke…this actually happened.
Source
Police and firefighters were called to the University of Texas’ Jester Hall to free 26 cheerleaders who had crammed themselves into an elevator.
A group of 14- to 17-year-olds attending Texas Cheer Camp in Austin decided to see how many girls they could squeeze into the elevator around 6 p.m. Tuesday, campus police said.
The elevator successfully descended from the fourth floor to the first, but the doors refused to open.
The panicked girls managed to wiggle a few cell phones free to call for help. But it took about 25 minutes before a repairman was able to fix the door, police said.
“It’s dangerous actually,” said Rhonda Weldon, director of communications for the UT Police Department. “They’re lucky that that’s all that happened.”
One teen fainted and was treated and released from a nearby hospital. Two others were treated at the scene.
“Take the sign seriously,” Ms. Weldon said. “There are signs everywhere: No more than 15 people or 3,000 pounds.”
After reading this story one can’t help but do the math…26 girls…3000 pounds. That means that the girls would have to be an average of over 115 lbs each to tip the scales on this elevator. We’re talking about cheerleaders here right? What are they feeding them in Texas?
Note To The Bigger Blogs: If you’re going to bite from lil ol me at least give credit where credit is due.
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