Former New England Patriots cheerleader Caitlin Davis, who was recently booted off the Gillette Stadium squad after pictures of her with a passed-out man covered in offensive drawings surfaced on her Facebook account, blamed the fiasco on the guy's Halloween costume.

The 18-year-old, who lost her job due to several pictures showing her alongside a drunk, unconscious man covered in offensive markings including two swastikas and words describing male genitalia, refused to take responsibility for any of the images on the man's body saying that was just his Halloween costume which she and her friends found interesting.

"The kid in the picture was a 'drunk guy who passed out and was written on,' as his costume for the night," Davis told celebrity gossip website TMZ.com in a statement, explaining she was unaware of the signs at the time she jumped in the picture with the "kid." However, the former Foxboro High cheerleader said considers herself fully responsible for not being more alert.

"Me and my girls left the dorm and went to another house and came back to the kid passed out on the futon we were suppose to sleep on," Davis recalled. "The guys ended up drawing more on him due to the fact that he was the first one to pass out on Halloween night ... At the time I had jumped in the picture with the kid, I didn't realize what had been drawn on him, which I take responsibility for not being alert."  

As a result of her blunder, the ex-youngest cheerleader on the New Patriots squad since the spring of 2008, is no longer with the team, Patriots spokesman Stacey James told the Boston Herald. Although she was removed from the squad, her pictures were still on the Patriots' website, including some from the team's Oct. 26 game against the Rams when she dressed up as an angel.

An upbeat Davis said on her audition tape to become a Patriots cheerleader that the most important reason she wanted to become part of the pompom squad was to spread "a good image" for the team. "In addition to spreading a good image for the Patriots, you do some good things for others," she said