This may have already been posted, but it just makes me sick, sick AND tired of the sheer meanness that the internet brings out in some people.
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Trisha (aka Trish)
Jan 5 '10, 13:09
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Blind Boise St. Band Member Object of Internet Ridicule
1/05/2010 12:00 PM ET By Ryan Wilson
Perhaps the biggest story to come out of the Fiesta Bowl between Boise St. and TCU had nothing to do with a crucial play or the final score, but the halftime show. During intermission, the camera panned the field showing the Boise St. dancers before settling on two band members, one going to town on some cymbals, the other appearing very uninterested as she worked the cowbell.
Those few seconds on national television promptly led to the Twitters blowing up and as SB Nation's Sean Keeley wrote early Tuesday, "Boise State Sad Cowbell Girl (BSSCG) launched into Internet History and began the Uninspired Cowbell Twang That Launched A Thousand Animated GIFs."
Funny story (via Keeley's updated post and Buster Sports): Boise State Sad Cowbell Girl? Yeah, she's blind. She had no idea she was on television and was probably making the same face most of us make as we go about our daily banal existence. Just without the camera.
So, right, that makes things extremely awkward, especially for some folks who spend countless hours on Facebook (the irony burns). The lesson: the time-honored tradition of clowning members of the band? Okay. Clowning members of the band who happened to be disabled. Not okay.
*Note: I found a bunch of stories about this situation and felt like this guy did it the right way. Some of the comments on other sites are appalling. I found one where the first comment was: "it makes it funnier when you find out she's BLIND. rotflmao!!" No doubt someone is going to say, "but we didn't know she was blind". So I'd as them this question: What difference does it make? Really?
//rant over, thanks for playing
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