Wed Mar 3, 2021, 04:48 PM
underpants (169,528 posts)
Washington Football Team replaces cheerleaders with coed dance squad
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30996155/washington-football-team-replaces-cheerleaders-dance-squad
ASHBURN, Va. -- The Washington Football Team has discontinued its cheerleader program after more than 50 years, replacing it with a coed dance squad as part of its rebranding effort. “ As we set out to modernize the Washington Football gameday, it's important that we develop a top-notch entertainment program that keeps our fanbase excited and connected to the game and the team," Wright said. Washington started using cheerleaders in 1962 and they eventually became known as the First Ladies of Football. They represented the franchise at events locally and around the world, especially military bases. Pope said she's not yet sure whether the dance squad would travel. Pope said there are no plans for the dance team to do any calendars.
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underpants | Mar 2021 | OP |
Jilly_in_VA | Mar 2021 | #1 | |
Rustyeye77 | Mar 2021 | #2 | |
soothsayer | Mar 2021 | #3 | |
spooky3 | Mar 2021 | #4 | |
Ruby Zee | Mar 2021 | #5 | |
GopherGal | Mar 2021 | #6 | |
Sgent | Mar 2021 | #7 | |
MagickMuffin | Mar 2021 | #8 |
Response to underpants (Original post)
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 04:50 PM
Jilly_in_VA (5,823 posts)
1. Isn't that great
The WTFs, now with co-ed slave labor.
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Response to underpants (Original post)
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 04:56 PM
Rustyeye77 (2,736 posts)
2. Female cheerleaders is so sexist .
Who wants to see that?
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Response to underpants (Original post)
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 05:04 PM
soothsayer (38,601 posts)
3. They barely pay them, or the band
Blows
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Response to underpants (Original post)
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 05:07 PM
spooky3 (29,527 posts)
4. It's one step in the right direction. Nt
Response to underpants (Original post)
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 06:35 PM
Ruby Zee (120 posts)
5. Finally...
It's time for sports teams to ditch the female cheerleaders in skimpy costumes. I read major league teams pay them minimum wage or similar. It's my second least favorite things about football, with the first being brain injuries.
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Response to underpants (Original post)
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 07:28 PM
GopherGal (1,548 posts)
6. "Keeps our fanbase excited" ... right.
Given the history of really beyond skeevy treatment of the cheerleaders by team execs, this sounds like a pretty typical "Boss harasses women, the women get fired" situation.
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html|] When the Washington Redskins took their cheerleading squad to Costa Rica in 2013 for a calendar photo shoot, the first cause for concern among the cheerleaders came when Redskins officials collected their passports upon arrival at the resort, depriving them of their official identification. [link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/26/redskins-cheerleaders-video-daniel-snyder-washington/?arc404=true|] In “Beauties on the Beach,” the official video chronicling the making of the Washington NFL team’s 2008 cheerleader swimsuit calendar, the women frolic in the sand, rave about their custom bikinis and praise a photographer for putting them at ease in settings where sometimes only a strategically placed prop or tightly framed shot shielded otherwise bare breasts. |
Response to underpants (Original post)
Wed Mar 3, 2021, 07:39 PM
Sgent (5,750 posts)
7. I'm all for coed squads
in fact I'm not sure that cheerleader is necessarily female anyway. My college had male cheerleaders in the 90's, and GWB was a college cheerleader in the 70's.
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