No one knows what happened except for the people that are there, but I imagine SE and CE athletes are close, and perhaps Orange and Steel athletes are too, so if you talk about one team you may as well be talking about the other. You stick up for family.
This reminds me of the large coed fight that broke out on Twitter right after Worlds. Things really escalated when someone (not sure what team they were on) insulted a guy from Cheetahs. Like an episode of National Geographic, the claws came OUT. A BUNCH of his teammates came to his defense. Can't blame them, since it feels as though the person is insulting you as well.
*shudders*
But they put it on social media while in uniform. Plus, cheerleaders are expected to be role models. It's considered worse for a cheerleader to make a mistake than it is for an athlete of a different sport to do the same.
I can never see anything either...I only know what we're talking about because I had seen it on tumblr already. I think web view only works for twitter stuff.
I'm not arguing with you specifically - just using your post as a jumping point, and I'm not a fan of bad sportsmanship, but I'm not sure why cheerleaders are held to a higher standard than any other sport. We see things like this in football, softball, hockey and other sports all the time and no one is bothered by it. It's a sport - things get competitive, and things get said. I've never been a fan of the "you can't show any emotion whatsoever when second place is called even though you just won" rule either so I am probably in the minority on this too.
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