Don’t spit in their Cheer-ios
It seems that the issue of cheerleaders in the National Football League is a hot topic of conversation this week.
Oh, you didn’t hear about it? Well then, good for you: you must have a life to lead and more important things to worry about.
Spending your tax dollars, CBC radio’s The Current was all over it Friday, with the usual amount of journalistic balance (almost none) among its host and panel of so-called “experts,” and the touchy-feely far-left handwringing, which can be just as wearisome as the ultra-right.
They didn’t pay a lot of mind to how the cheerleaders themselves might feel, because The Current likes to tell people how they should feel about things — it’s what they do these days.
So, this is how you should feel: as far as we can tell, no one is holding a gun to the heads of those women and we can be reasonably sure they enjoy the notoriety and extra perks of being a cheerleader for an NFL team. Ditto for the NBA and to a much lesser extent, the National Hockey League.
They like to dance and cheer and perform for people — so they are probably having fun, doing what they might have done in high school and college.
And if they aren’t having fun, they wouldn’t be doing it in the first place, would they?
NFL cheerleaders work for an extremely rich corporation and aren’t compensated very well, and should be paid much more than they are. But it’s their choice to accept the position as it is offered, it’s not up to the CBC.
Beyond that, if there are put in a situation where they feel like they’re being treated in a demeaning way (such as what reportedly happened when some Washington Redskins cheerleaders were sent to Costa Rica for a promotional event), then the NFL must act quickly to protect them — now and in the future.
I personally don’t care if football teams have cheerleaders; a few NFL teams don’t employ them, one of them being the woeful Cleveland Brown – although Browns fans, it must be said, would welcome anything that distracts them from watching the actual game.
When fans are sitting on the couch watching football, they see the cheerleaders flash on the television for two or three seconds, then it’s back to the game and the dance routines are quickly forgotten.
And besides, if a guy wants to look at beautiful women in skimpy clothes bounce around with absolutely gorgeous smiles on their faces, he doesn’t need football — he can find them on the internet and a thousand TV stations.
It was like what a normal day is for the cops in Brampton….
Tasers at the ready if they found themselves falling too far behind on the scoreboard, New Glasgow Regional Police played a game of floor hockey against Grade 8 students at New Glasgow Academy on Friday.
It was the D.A.R.E Challenge Cup, and the cops, using aggressive tactics that bordered on police brutality (they might get suspended, but with pay of course — and only then because there were multiple witnesses) got a big lead early, then seemed to tire as their stamina wilted. Once the perps got close, though, the police doubled down and ending up winning by a 15-12 final, leaving no doubt as to who was in charge.