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Badgers Cheerleaders Violently Attacked With Onslaught Of Snowballs From Their Own Fans, Have To Exit Football Field

By Christian Savoy
Published on: 08:46 PST, Nov 22, 2015

In an unprecedented act of violence against cheerleaders, dozens of unruly fans of the Wisconsin Badgers college football team were ejected by police for pelting the Badgers cheerleaders with snowballs. According to Saturday’s report from the New York Daily News, the Badgers cheerleaders were forced to leave the field and hide in a stadium tunnel after being pelted with snowballs thrown by their own fans, multiple news reporters on the scene said.

The region received a record-breaking amount of snow on Friday, and Camp Randall Stadium in Madison was still full of snow as the Badgers took on the Northwestern Wildcats on Saturday afternoon. The first significant snowstorm of the season dumped between a few inches and 20-inches of snow across the upper Midwest, blanketing a swath from South Dakota to Michigan, ABC News reports.

Apparently, the unusually heavy amount of snow was too much for some fans to resist, and dozens of college students started launching snowballs at each other, as well as Badgers cheerleaders and officials on the field.

“Wisconsin’s student section is apparently bored enough by the game that there’s a snowball fight breaking out over there,” Jesse Temple, a Wisconsin Badgers reporter, who gives analysis on football news and updates for ESPN, tweeted.

Just a short while after Temple sent out the above tweet, he followed it up with another tweet saying the fans had started directing their snowball fury at the Badgers cheerleaders and football staff.

“Holy smokes. Students look like they’re now aiming all their snowballs at the UW cheerleaders behind the end zone. What’s wrong with people?” Temple tweeted.

Temple also posted a short video of the chaotic scene and the footage shows Badgers cheerleaders leaving the field as fans continue to unleash their snowball fury upon them.

The incident triggered reporters with local news stations to also tweet about the incident.

“Wisconsin cheerleaders getting pegged with snowballs by their own fans,” Wisconsin TV reporter Elise Menaker tweeted. “Cheerleaders had to go in the tunnel and hideout. #notcool.”

As reported by Sports Illustrated, Badgers fans began throwing snowballs at each other in the second quarter. A short while later, they started directing their onslaught at cheerleaders, who were then forced to exit the field. However, during the second half of the game, they returned but stood on Wisconsin’s sideline instead of behind the endzone.

The snowball fight upset campus police and forced University officials to take action.

“Save the snowballs for Bascom Hill. Anyone caught throwing snow on the field will be cited and ejected by @UWMadisonPolice.”

It was an especially dangerous situation Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department published the number of ejections, along with other information regarding the incident, on social media.

According to police, 110 fans were ejected — including 50 for throwing snow or ice — 24 fans were issued tickets, for a variety of offenses, and 25 calls for first aid were received, including for a number of people who suffered bloody noses or other injuries after being hit by snowballs.

The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal wrote that the department kept fans updated about the situation, via Twitter, and explained that any fans caught throwing snow would be ejected.

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