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- algaeturd, on 10/04/2008, -11/+61Not to mention they risk their boobies falling out.
- inactive, on 10/04/2008, -1/+36A risk well worth taking
- hoofhockey, on 10/04/2008, -19/+49buried as inaccurate.... cheerleading isn't a sport...
- Mononuclear, on 10/05/2008, -2/+31as American as blueberry pie? I thought the saying was as American as apple pie.
Oh this is from a UK newspaper.. no wonder they have no ***** clue what is American. - ChromaVita, on 10/05/2008, -5/+32In other news: Football players risk serious injury and death to support teams.
- threemagic, on 10/05/2008, -0/+18nope.. and it still doesn't stop me from wanting to see boobs pop out.
- inactive, on 10/05/2008, -0/+16I like boobs too.
- blitzkriegpunk, on 10/05/2008, -1/+16Blueberry pie? Drive ins?
I'm originally from Germany, but spent most of my life in the States. Drive ins are all but gone and I can't say I've ever had a blueberry pie.
Now, apple pie, yeah. But, then again, that's French.
***** island monkeys! lol - divinediva, on 10/04/2008, -3/+17"Cheerleaders risk serious injury and death to support teams"
Nothing to CHEER about... - drewpost, on 10/05/2008, -5/+16Competitive cheer leading is intense. People need to move on past the mental image of girls with poms poms. The amount of gymnastic talent involved is impressive. It's also QUITE painful. In one year in high school I got two concussions a fractured eye socket from girls' elbows coming down from basket tosses. I also have two vertebrea fused together because I kept having flyers falling on my head. There is so much technique on the parts of the bases and they flyers that if one thing goes wrong, it's awfully tough to save the stunt.
- algaeturd, on 10/04/2008, -0/+9amen.
- biggerapple3am, on 10/05/2008, -0/+9Your Bio teacher is a cheerleader for the NFL? Jesus Christ, I wish I'd have gone to your school.
- ligyron, on 10/05/2008, -0/+9No. Any fool can have a girlfriend/boyfriend. You don't "get" one. Two human beings are attracted to each other therefore they're together. Are you failing at something every life form on Earth is instinctively capable of--reproduction?
- drewpost, on 10/05/2008, -1/+10"Don't you find it degrading that all this is done nominally in support of another sport?"
Well inthe case of our school there were two squads. One was the group that just cheers at games which is fine, jsut part of the normal high school experience that no one gets hurt in (save for some freak pom pom accident or not paying attention and having a football player fly into you from the field which is hilarious for the rest of us who didn't get hit)
The other squad is the comp squad that does all the crazy gymnastic stunting. It's got elements not present in normal gymnastics which is why to roll it up in favour of a gymnastics team is not a realistic idea. You do not have the team element in gymnastics that you do in cheer in that you can put together a 3 minute routine involving the tossing lifting and tumbling that all, if it goes off as practised, can result in a really impressive show. - Stavrosian, on 10/05/2008, -4/+12Don't you find it degrading that all this is done nominally in support of another sport? In principle it seems like casting yourself as subservient to the boys or something, even if in reality what you are doing could be equally as demanding and impressive, or even moreso.
Maybe I just don't get it, different culture and all. I know it isn't just pom-poms and "go team" but it's even defined in the name of the sport that what you exist for is to cheer on somebody else while they play the 'real' sport. Seems like an outmoded idea which should just be replaced with gymnastics squads to me. - drewpost, on 10/05/2008, -2/+10Oh I'm a guy also. So I don't know if it was that or that fact we didn't cheer at games but I never felt subservient. In fact on our 5 person homecoming court, 3 of the us were on the cheer squad and the homecoming king was on the squad so there wasn't this we're better than you type thing at all.
The coach at our school wanted a co-ed team because it made for crazier stunts and practically bribed us by paying for all our uniforms and fees and our trip to Florida when we made the nationals competition. We didn't do the game rah rah crap but we did do the tumbling and throwing of the girls and lifting them in the air. And to stop the obvious come back, no I'm not gay. I used to laugh when football players or wrestlers called us gay. Dude, you grapple with sweaty men in spandex. We get to grab and throw hot girls (and our team was exceptionally attractive) and go on trips with them. Plus there were 5 guys and 25 girls. You do the math. Which one of us is gay now? - misterloot, on 10/05/2008, -2/+10Like, whatevar!
- cloudyskies41, on 10/05/2008, -2/+10I thought this was an Onion article based on the title.
- Tweets, on 10/05/2008, -2/+10 Cheerleading is more of a sport than golf is.
- cyberdash, on 10/05/2008, -3/+10Buried as inaccurate. Everybody knows that cheerleaders have regenerative abilities.
- NFLClassifieds, on 10/05/2008, -1/+7That's the problem, @hoofhockey. Cheerleading "isn't" seen as a sport. It isn't even considered a talent by most. And by some, it matters not that 30,000 are hospitalized each year. Nor that many are paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of their lives. In deed some, would rather bury a story of pain and anguish, suffering and even death, ...on a technicality.
- MasterThief117, on 10/05/2008, -2/+8The funny thing is, professional cheerleaders do not make that much money per game. My bio teacher is a cheerleader for the Redskins and she says she only makes like 75 bucks or so per game.
- inactive, on 10/05/2008, -1/+7You can't put a price on lust.
- admiral101, on 10/05/2008, -5/+10School sports = waste of money badly needed for actual education costs.
Cheerleaders for school sports = bigger waste of money badly needed for actual education costs.
Clapping and cheering as hot jailbait prance around in short skirts for your enjoyment = priceless. - algaeturd, on 10/04/2008, -6/+11But titty watching is a sport and one that I really enjoy.
- Mononuclear, on 10/05/2008, -0/+4I am well aware of the history of the apple pie and blueberries. It doesn't change the fact that the saying is "as American as apple pie". It doesn't matter who invented it or where the ingredients come from. There could be a common saying "as American as Sony". It would be retarded like claiming that apple pie is American but it wouldn't change the saying and what it represents.
It is a stupid saying and I am not claiming that the apple pie is more American than blueberry pie. I am just pointing out how the popular saying goes and that the author of the article is wrong. - cuevas4711, on 10/05/2008, -2/+6Im with this guy!
http://www.usasoftball.com/images.asp?uid=4252 - MasterThief117, on 10/05/2008, -0/+4I don't mean 'ha ha' funny, but more of a 'hey, that is kinda interesting' funny.
- dopplerdog, on 10/05/2008, -0/+4they belong to bimbo?
- Attol, on 10/05/2008, -0/+4I think cheerleaders should just start stripping instead of doing backflips. Its better this way.
- bobbi21, on 10/05/2008, -1/+3"Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively."
" an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sport
Definition of sport is very general. You're free to provide a dictionary source for your definition but if the majority say it's a sport, I'll tend to agree (at least in layman's terms it's a sport). - LaceKing, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2I know you weren't asking me, but that's exactly how I see it. :(
- thegrantman, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2At least forbid them from wearing underwear.
- crossmr, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2and I'd love to see the cheerleaders play football.
Just because one person is better at something than another person because they don't practice it doesn't make it better or just as good as it.
There are such things as male gymnastics, where they perform similar routines to the girls, so guys are just as capable. - impedance101, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2dugg for the crotch picture
- BilliD, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2Dear Diary ... JACKPOT!!
- MasterThief117, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2It's Blair High School, lol.
- decadent87, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2Competitive cheerleading isn't cheering for another sport. Competitions are just for cheerleading squads, and they're cheering for their school pretty much. I never felt like sideline cheering was subservient, though. Yeah, it's cheering on another team, but that's what fans do. Cheerleaders are a group of fans, just more organized and wearing skirts.
And cheerleading does include gymnastics but it also involves a lot of dancing and stunting, too. There's a reason cheering is around. There are a lot of elements involved that you wouldn't get just doing gymnastics or dancing. - Khanvalescent, on 10/05/2008, -4/+6Someone has to write it...
Save the cheerleader, save the world. - dopplerdog, on 10/05/2008, -2/+4Trust the brits to know more about america than americans....
- garmarfr, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2LOL. I was going to write the same
- MicrosoftBob, on 10/05/2008, -0/+2I don't know. You tell us.
- inactive, on 10/05/2008, -0/+1Save the Cheerleader, Save the TnA
- valleyman86, on 10/06/2008, -0/+1Yes.
- doubl3d, on 10/05/2008, -0/+1Here is a idea, why dont they just stop doing it.
- rebeccasuzanne, on 10/06/2008, -0/+1I don't cheer but my boyfriend's Little sister does. I used to think that cheer leading wasn't a sport and that it was a bunch of pretty girls jumping around in short skirts and yelling. Until I went to an actual cheer leading competition and wow that was crazy. She does school and All-Star cheer and if those kids aren't athletes I don't know who is. The other day she was flying (being tossed in the air) and ended up landing on her head because they tossed her too far back - now most people are saying "stop doing it and you'll stop getting hurt". That's stupid it doesn't apply to other sports (like football, soccer, baseball etc) so why tell them to stop. Never mind the fact that half the people out there saying this isn't a sport can't run for a minute straight without feeling the urge to throw up, how about you try and do flips - hoisting and throwing 105-120lb girls into the air then using your own momentum to shoot your body across the floor and straight up in the air nonstop for a 4 minute routine (not to mention the daily training) - then you can tell me it's not a sport.
- inactive, on 10/05/2008, -1/+2I have to support the dignity of cheerleaders and admit that it's a legitimate sport. I have a friend who broke a bone for every year she was in high school, two of which she was a major player on our cheer leading squad. I mean, guaranteed she was a flyer, and the rest of the squad was endearingly called the Two-Ton-Tilly Brigade, but still, that many injuries should have earned her the public school equivalent of a Purple Heart.
- inactive, on 10/05/2008, -1/+2I was a gymnast. It's athletic, but it's not a sport.
- erciesielski, on 10/05/2008, -0/+1I'd love to see cheerleaders tackling each other fighting over balls. hehe
- kilt42, on 10/05/2008, -0/+1i play Varsity football and am also a male Varsity cheerleader for basketball at my high school. Our cheerleading team is a good team, placing either first or second in our division at states for almost a decade. Personally i believe that football is much tougher than cheerleading. All of the bumps and bruises you suffer from such a high contact sport beat out the one chance injury that you'll get from cheerleading. Plus football demands more fitness in order to do well.
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