Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:14 pm EST
Every
November, this happens. Fans in NFL stadiums are robbed of part of the
game-going experience, television broadcasts become less appealing, and
imaginations everywhere are forced to shift into overdrive. The NFL has a
serious problem, and that problem, friends, is bundled-up cheerleaders.
Just look at those words themselves. Bundled-up cheerleader. It's like non-alcoholic beer. The purpose is completely defeated.
The weather drops into the 20s and 30s, and the poor cheerleaders take the field wearing something akin to a parka. I don't know about you, but I won't even consider taking orders on when to cheer from someone who doesn't even care enough to show some belly-button.
So here's my proposed solution: heated plexiglass enclosures.
I don't want to call them "cages," really, because that makes it seem dirty, and what I'm talking about here is something clean and wholesome. All I want is for these women to be warm and able to perform their art in a comfortable, very lightly-clothed atmosphere.
And I think we could accomplish this, even in a place like Denver, with a plexiglass enclosure and a couple of space heaters. I want you to be able to lose that big fringed leather coat, ma'am. That has to restrict your range of motion. How are you supposed to let me know that you've got spirit, yes you do, when your arms are weighed down like that, and there is no accompanying jiggle?
Plexiglass. Hockey uses it to keep pucks from killing spectators, and the NFL can use it to keep fully-covered torsos and legs from killing the spirit of fans. Give these women some shelter, pump some heat in, and let them cheer with roughly 4% of their skin covered. That's how the founding fathers would have wanted it.
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Let's face facts these bimbos are nothing more than washed up gymnasts looking to hook-up w/a footballer& will go to any means to get themselves one. THEY LEND ABSOLUTELY ZERO TO THE GAME
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some teams dont even have any.
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And what's the deal with the Lions..are we the only(??) NFL team that doesn't have their own cheerleaders?? They use high school girls who are not nice to look at at all.
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I'm a Giants fan...what's a cheerleader?
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Darkness is Spreading!
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Now for the folks in the stands, I understand. They've paid good money, and about 40 of them are actually close enough to see the cheerleaders...
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with turning your binocks on the cheer leaders? You gotta get some thrills for that
$100 ticket.
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Yes. That makes you gay.
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so we all agree calgonman is gay?
And yes- Kimbo was ridiculously over-rated. I said check out mma- the sport; not the Kimbo cash machine.
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