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The Bud Light Daredevils (BLD) were an American acrobatic basketball show that performed during the halftime of college and NBA basketball games from 1983 to 1998. The BLD's show combined gymnastics, trampoline, acrobatics, and basketball. The team was started by University of Mississippi Cheerleaders Ty Cobb, Sam Martin, Jeff Hubbard, John White, and Ty Cobb's younger brother Guy Cobb. ==Ole Miss and the inception of acrobatic basketball (1979–83)== In 1980 Ty Cobb, along with fellow cheerleaders Sam Martin, John White, and Ole Miss "Johnny Reb" Mascot Jeff Hubbard began performing ball handling skits and acrobatics which incorporated a mini-trampoline during the time-outs and half-time of Ole Miss basketball games. Using his previous trampoline and diving skills and the cheerleader's mini-trampoline, Ty Cobb, on a dare performed the first successful acrobatic "flip dunk" at the Ole Miss vs. Alabama basketball game in 1980 and received a standing ovation by Alabama fans. Ole Miss Head Basketball Coach Bob Weltlich, recognizing the group's potential to soften up an opposing team's crowd, began flying the foursome with the Ole Miss Basketball team to away games. In 1980 Ty Cobb's fraternity brother and fellow Ole Miss Cheerleader Walt Shinault was practicing stunts using a mini-trampoline in the yard of his apartment complex in Oxford when he fell and broke his neck. The fall left him a quadriplegic. After the accident the South East Conference (SEC) banned the use of mini-trampolines by all cheerleaders at SEC games. With the banning of the use of mini-trampolines by cheerleaders throughout the Southeast Conference, Ty Cobb began looking for other ways for the group to continue performing their developing halftime show. Working on a marketing class project which had asked that students create their own company, Ty Cobb created a company called "The Ole Miss Cheerleaders Half Time Show". He designed marketing brochures and advertising materials that he then sent to National Basketball Association (NBA) promotional directors as part of a direct marketing campaign. The concept worked as the promotional directors at many of the NBA teams were looking for new ways to increase attendance and contacted Ty to schedule the "Ole Miss Cheerleaders" to perform during the time outs and halftime of their home games. The first professional NBA performance by The Ole Miss Cheerleaders was for the San Antonio Spurs in 1980, followed by shows for the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks. Still in high school in 1981, Ty Cobb's younger brother Guy Cobb joined the show for performances at NBA games. With the addition of Guy, the team began experimenting with different ways to acrobatically pass the basketball. These passes were mixed and matched with each other to not only allow for more complex acrobatic dunks to be performed but also to provide a way for the team to incorporate more passes into the dunk sequences without having to stop the show. One example was the "flip-pass" off the basketball backboard. This pass could be followed by another flip-pass and another and then a dunk ("Congo Dunk" 1987). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bud Light Daredevils」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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