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Home Front: Culture Wars
NFL's first male dancers will hit the sidelines this season
2018-08-07
[CNN] NFL fans will see history made this season, and it has nothing to do with what goes on between the goalposts.

The Los Angeles Rams and the New Orleans Saints will have male cheerleaders dancing on their squads for the first time. Dancers Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies have been preparing for the NFL season since they made the Rams cheerleading squad in March.

"Still can't believe I'm one of the first males in history to be a pro NFL cheerleader!" Jinnies tweeted after being selected.

Other teams, like the Indianapolis Colts and the Baltimore Ravens, have stuntmen, USA Today reported, but Peron and Jinnies will be dancing alongside their female teammates and doing the same moves.

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Posted by:Besoeker

#18  Honestly, I'm not seeing the problem. While my eyes will be firmly planted on the female cheerleaders during breaks in the game, what's the big deal?

No problem if you are attending the game. TV, up in the booth, the direction will be 'equal time'. I'll pass.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-08-07 19:48  

#17  The National Fabulous League (decorum prohibited me from using other F words that would work here.)

Or, the NFLGBTQWTF.

And soon, the NAMBLAFL.
Posted by: charger   2018-08-07 18:34  

#16  It's a setup for the History Making® first trans cheerleaderettes. Coming soon to a franchise near you!
Posted by: Fred   2018-08-07 16:39  

#15  Honestly, I'm not seeing the problem. While my eyes will be firmly planted on the female cheerleaders during breaks in the game, what's the big deal?
Posted by: ChrisInFtWorth   2018-08-07 16:16  

#14  They'll fit right in with the tampon commercials.
Posted by: Shusing Johnson9147   2018-08-07 15:18  

#13  T.W. Somehow I don't think Artinus 'Artie' Chindrip
will be quite so athletic.
Posted by: Craick Snusoter1348   2018-08-07 13:26  

#12  I don't know.

"Dallas Cowboy's Cheerguys" just doesn't have the same ring-a-ding-ding.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-08-07 12:54  

#11  There is a robust tradition of co-ed cheerleading squads at the high school and college levels. Having big, strong guys allows for far more challenging gymnastics and pyramid formation, and a lot less s3xy dancing. See this for a recent example.

I can’t imagine that little, effeminate guys will be the standard for long, not with so many experienced male cheerleaders around who will make the girls on the squads much happier.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-08-07 11:32  

#10  male cheerleaders dancing on their squads

These are not the guys with the helmets?
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-08-07 10:53  

#9  No, his 'real' name is Artinus 'Artie' Chindrip. But for obvious reasons......
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-07 10:36  

#8  The NFL isn't doing much draw their old audience back. Kinda pushing it away even farther and making the remaining viewers wonder why they spend so much of their Sundays watching this crap.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-08-07 10:35  

#7  This program was designed as an excuse to call NFL fans homophobes as viewership dies.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-08-07 10:30  

#6  The NFL has come down with a bad case of Napoleon Jinnies.

Is that really that person's name?
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-08-07 10:07  

#5  LGBTQWTF outreach
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-07 09:33  

#4  Just another reason to not watch the NFL
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-08-07 09:29  

#3  Please, puhleeeze dress in drag on the sidelines, 'guys'...
Posted by: Raj   2018-08-07 09:01  

#2  "Faaaaabulous!"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-08-07 08:51  

#1  Not interested in retaining, let alone getting back the old audience. BTW, whom ever you are appealing to, didn't watch in the first place.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-08-07 08:30  

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