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Male Cheerleaders · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Dear mama's, should
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  Speaker 1: men be NFL cheerleaders?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask Merrick and mama's Alma Mama, she said.
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  Speaker 1: And Jonie's now are American mama's turning Outville and Kimberly Burlason.
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  Speaker 1: So apparently the Minnesota Vikings have added two men to
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  Speaker 1: their cheerleader roster in addition to the women, and apparently
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fans just not happy about all this.
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  Speaker 1: Should men be NFL cheerleaders?
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  Speaker 3: This was funny because people are really mad about it.
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  Speaker 3: And I guess these two guys are going to be
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  Speaker 3: the new head cheerleaders. So they're doing a lot of
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  Speaker 3: tiktoks or doing.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of wales. The men are the head cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 3: They're the head cheerleaders for the Minnesota what's funny.
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  Speaker 4: Real quick? Are they going to man splain cheerleading? Now?
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  Speaker 4: Is that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but they're like they got the hair
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  Speaker 3: flip down. They're doing that a lot of hair flips.
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  Speaker 3: But when I saw that were upset about it. I
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  Speaker 3: did not realize that there's like twelve. I think this
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  Speaker 3: might be the thirteenth NFL team to have male cheerleaders right,
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  Speaker 3: which I had no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it started several years I think like Atlanta Falcons
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  Speaker 1: or Tampa Bay Buck was one of those.
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  Speaker 4: As one of the teams in the South. I believed
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  Speaker 4: that I had no idea I had already had some
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  Speaker 4: male cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 3: What I couldn't what I couldn't believe is Minnesota, of
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  Speaker 3: all places, the fans are mad.
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  Speaker 4: Same place at voted for Tim Mooles.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, what you're mad? Like, That's what blew me away.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about cheerleading, I mean, this is not a
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  Speaker 3: male taking a woman. This is not sports. It's a
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  Speaker 3: totally different thing. The cheerleaders have been both male and female.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I think they started as male, right.
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  Speaker 4: And so well at west Point.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, my father was a cheerleader in high school and
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  Speaker 1: his roommate he may have been the cheerleader at West
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  Speaker 1: Point as well. But at west Point initially they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have female cadets. Yeah, so the cheerleaders, the yell leader
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  Speaker 1: as they were called, were men, and you still have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of especially in college, you have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of yet, yeah, yeng leaders at Texas anem you still
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of men that are doing that are
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  Speaker 1: in the cheer squads at all universities that I can
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  Speaker 1: think of, you've got male cheerleaders mixed in with the
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  Speaker 1: female squads. But in the NFL it wasn't. It was
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  Speaker 1: all female for so long.
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  Speaker 3: It was all female and it was dancing. It's not
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  Speaker 3: you know, a lot of the male cheerleaders. It's the strength.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they can throw girls up, hold pyramids, that
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing, whereas this is just dance and very
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  Speaker 3: feminine dancing. And but I don't care, you don't. I
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  Speaker 3: don't care. No, I don't care, just because I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a space that has always been men and women.
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  Speaker 3: Yet it's a dance team. But it's one of those
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  Speaker 3: places that doesn't bother me because it's entertainment.
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  Speaker 5: I think I know what the deal is, though, I'll
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  Speaker 5: be honest, I think that what the people who are frustrated.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I didn't know they were the head cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 5: So that's just two more places that normally would be
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  Speaker 5: probably held by women. And we're talking about two different
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  Speaker 5: kinds like the yell leaders, the cheerleaders of pass that
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  Speaker 5: hold and the ones that are still in college that
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  Speaker 5: hold the girls up. And they do all the they do,
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  Speaker 5: all the strength strength work. When you have these two
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  Speaker 5: guys when they're on TikTok, they're doing the flamboyant hair
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  Speaker 5: flip and it looks like they've gotten glamorized their face.
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  Speaker 5: And some men probably are uncomfortable watching them shake their
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  Speaker 5: rear end in such a seductive way. And so there's
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  Speaker 5: probably that element to it that makes people uncomfortable, is
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  Speaker 5: my guess. I can only surmise that, but I think
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  Speaker 5: most people probably don't care, but the all eyes will
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  Speaker 5: be it's still kind of a drag queen type thing
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  Speaker 5: where people are fascinated.
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  Speaker 1: That's where That's where I'm like, is this how are
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  Speaker 1: you doing it? Are you doing it like the college
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  Speaker 1: cheerleaders where there's still as a masculinity to it. The
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  Speaker 1: male cheerleaders aren't necessarily doing the kicks up to the
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  Speaker 1: head and they're not shaking their butts, and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a string thing and it's a cheer thing
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  Speaker 1: and there's still a masculine way to do it. Or
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  Speaker 1: is this drag?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And and yeah, as a football fan, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to see drag. I did not want
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  Speaker 1: to spend all that money or watch on TV to
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  Speaker 1: watch drag when I'm trying to watch football. I want
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  Speaker 1: to watch football.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's interesting because we're we so believe
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  Speaker 5: the people they have the right to live their life
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  Speaker 5: the way they want to. And this this is clearly
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  Speaker 5: a passion of theirs. When you look on TikTok or reels,
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  Speaker 5: the ones that make the their reels go viral are
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  Speaker 5: those whether it's in the marching band or it's on
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  Speaker 5: a girl's drill team. Are the flamboyant ones who are
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  Speaker 5: like doing the the whole z snap and they you know,
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  Speaker 5: they flick their hairdla molvny style that I think that
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  Speaker 5: makes some people uncomfortable. Like Kimberly said, She's she's fine
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  Speaker 5: with it, she says, not uncomfortable. I'm not uncomfortable, but
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  Speaker 5: I would beat my attention would be watching. That's the
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  Speaker 5: one that my eyes would go to just out of fascination.
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  Speaker 5: So the men that are going to these NFL games,
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  Speaker 5: especially the Minnesota Vikings, you know, to see these these
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  Speaker 5: men out there that you almost wish you had their face.
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  Speaker 5: They're beautiful people, and I think that maybe some of
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  Speaker 5: the men are just like no, I don't want this
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  Speaker 5: in my face like I want to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, well, they can turn away, absolutely, we're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: That's the danger. Yeah, that's the danger. They will.
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  Speaker 5: And the point is is, y'all are saying that this
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  Speaker 5: is there's been a backlash. So I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 5: I'm just trying to surmise why. And that's the only
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  Speaker 5: thing that can come up with for me.
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  Speaker 1: It would be are these men doing masculine things? Or
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  Speaker 1: are these men pretending to be women? Because I am
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  Speaker 1: tired of men pretending to be women and having that
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  Speaker 1: shoved in my face. Yeah, I'm not okay with that.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Brothers, and thank you so much