The Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who was hit in the head by a football Sunday shared the note Dallas Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey gave her to apologize.
“Michelle, so sorry about hitting you on KO! Hope you are doing well! Love watching y’all,” Aubrey wrote to Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Michelle Siemienowski.
During a second-quarter kickoff, Aubrey kicked the ball out of bounds, where it hit Siemienowski, who was cheering on the sidelines, in the head and knocked her to her knees. As she was recovering, a camera caught her smiling with tears in her eyes.
A Cowboys rep told HuffPost on Sunday that Siemienowski was checked out by a doctor and was “doing fine.” Siemienowski confirmed on her Instagram later that she was all right.
Siemienowski shared the note Aubrey gave her on her Instagram stories Monday. Siemienowski wrote that she heard Aubrey wanted to deliver the note to her personally, but he couldn’t find her.
“He was so kind to write me a note anyways,” Siemienowski added. “No hard feelings here! And now I have a souvenir for my last game of my rookie season!”
The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders were the subject of a Netflix docuseries in 2024 that documented the audition process and the cheerleaders’ season. Viewers were critical of the cheerleaders’ pay after Charlotte Jones, Cowboys chief brand officer, said in the docuseries that there is a lot of “cynicism” around their pay.
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“They’re not paid a lot,” Jones, the daughter of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, said on the docuseries. “But the facts are that they actually don’t come here for the money. They come here for something that’s actually bigger than that to them.”
She continued: “There are not a lot of opportunities in the field of dance to get to perform at an elite level. It is about being a part of something bigger than themselves.”
A former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who joined the squad in 2021 told HuffPost that the cheerleaders were paid $12.50 per hour and $400 per home game day.