More Bad News Cheerleaders piling on

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More Bad News Cheerleaders piling on
Started by oldecapecod 11, Sep 15 2014 08:59 PM

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#1 oldecapecod 11
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Posted 15 September 2014 - 08:59 PM
More Bad News: Cheerleaders "piling on" following $1.25 million settlement made by Raiders.
The NFL is having its own version of "Black September" as more women's issues expand.
(Although violence is not a women's issue, we all know women are far more often the victim in domestic violence matters.)

"... As the plaintiffs pile on, fans are learning that the most powerful sports league in the U.S., with $9.7 billion in annual revenue, pays its sideline performers worse than the average birthday clown or barista. “It’s giving the league a black eye,” says Paul Secunda, a professor of labor law at Marquette University. “There’s no need for them to act this way.” The self-inflicted damage comes at a time when the league’s handling of a domestic violence case involving former Baltimore Raven Ray Rice isn’t helping its credibility with women..."

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#2 lastcat3
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Posted 16 September 2014 - 07:40 PM
They say they don't get paid any better than the girls working at a bar serving beer. Well are they worth anymore than those girls at the bar serving beer??

Getting a 125 dollars per game to suit up in a pretty outfit and shake your hips sounds pretty generous in my opinion. Not like there aren't millions upon millions of young girls who couldn't do the exact same thing.

#3 Rupert Patrick
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Posted 16 September 2014 - 07:46 PM
Nobody goes to the football game specifically to see the cheerleaders, and nobody would stop going to the games if they stopped having cheerleaders. You don't become an NFL cheerleader to become rich, it's not a full time job, it's a nice bullet point on your resume if you want to do local modeling or acting.

#4 oldecapecod 11
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Posted 16 September 2014 - 09:19 PM
Truth is: I have never seen an NFL "cheerleader" actually lead a cheer. But, it has been part of the scene for a long time and Dallas has certainly played their group for all they can get.
Supposedly, there were NO cheerleaders on the sidelines for the Buffalo Bills home opener? Can anyone confirm this?
The article mentioned a "copy cat" law suit and, if so, it might not be the last of them.
Anything to advance a personal agenda when public opinion might be very anti one of the "big guys."

#5 Mark L. Ford
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Posted 17 September 2014 - 09:39 AM
I'm not impressed with the cheerleaders' complaints either. Granted, their $125 means that they have to do practicing sessions in addition to their appearance, but it's still $125 more per game than a college cheerleader would make. Becoming a pro cheerleader is a choice, often by women who have other careers and who are gaining a lot of recognition for a part-time job. They're the most expendable of jobs associated with an NFL game. On the eve of the 2011 Super Bowl, when the Packers met the Steelers, the first time that neither team had a cheerleading squad, Seth Myers commented on the Weekend Update newscast, something like "Nobody will be there to tell the Packers or the Steelers 'GO!!'"

#6 Todd Pence
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Posted 17 September 2014 - 05:04 PM
And here this thread title led me to believe it was going to involve video of cheerleaders jumping on top of each other. Damn you, oldecapecod.

#7 oldecapecod 11
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Posted 17 September 2014 - 06:55 PM
That was the first link - censored by the conclave police. Probably rightfully so or you might never get your bleeding to stop.