You may have seen a clip floating around of an Orlando Magic cheerleader going up for a stunt and accidentally powerbombing herself to the floor of the Amway Arena. If you haven’t, it goes a little something like this:
That in itself is enough for a post on a comedy sports blog (especially if I just type “here’s an cheerleader falling on it’s head RT if you agree” at the top and publish it for massive, Busted Coverage-style traffic), but the reason I’m sharing it now is because of the esoteric, epic troll executed by the person at ABC News put in charge of the “injured cheerleaders” timeline graphic.
It covers a few important talking points — that over 37,000 cheerleaders went to the emergency room in 2011, and how cheerleading ranks #2 behind football on the list of most injury-prone sports — and right there at the beginning is a photo of another famous cheerleader who took a tumble: Laura Palmer, the Twin Peaks, Washington, cheerleader and homecoming queen who was found dead and wrapped in plastic in a river back in 1990. You know, on the TV show ‘Twin Peaks’.
Here’s the original video, in case you think I just got Burnsy to photoshop her in there as a viral promotion for the next Sports On TV column:
I don’t want to say more than I should, but hey Orlando, you should probably keep BOB out of your basketball games. And ABC News? Don’t google “dead cheerleader” and use what you find without checking to see if she’s real.
[h/t to Max Robinson]
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That’s a damn fine piece of journalism, ABC.
One day my log will have something to say about this.
And they didn’t even note that most cheerleaders don’t get seriously hurt, as evidenced by Claire Bennet, Texas high school cheerleader.
+repressed memories coming back
Remember when they had that viral campaign of her jumping of a grain pier? God, I was a sucker back then.
Back and to the left…
Wait, why would cheerleading be on any kind of list of sports. I’m not just conceding that point.
To be fair, who hasn’t imagined every cheerleader as possessed by a demon?
I’ve imagined every cheerleader possessed by me, and I’m often thought to be demonic.
I’d like to think that, since ABC originally aired Twin Peaks that they were giving themselves and their old show that, thanks to Netflix, is having a mild resurgence in popularity. But, that would make them “accidentally” using Laura’s picture even more hilarious and depressing.