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Third Down: Cheerleader-gate

This past week the NFL issued a memo to all 32 teams which instructed home teams not to allow their cheerleaders to warm up, stretch or perform in front of the opposing team during the pre-game.  While I don't think that teams intentionally use this ploy to gain an advantage, I can say from experience that cheerleader distraction during games is real. 

While starting for the New York Giants in week 16 versus the Dallas Cowboys in 2005, I found out just how distracting cheerleaders can be.  In that game we started several drives inside our own 20-yard line, with each drive following a TV timeout.  With my back to the end zone in the huddle, I became frustrated because I couldn't make eye contact with any of my 10 teammates as I was trying to call our plays; they were all staring right at the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders who were performing in the end zone. 

I remember our offensive linemen shaking their heads in utter amazement, but the classic line came from our tight end, Visanthe Shiancoe, who interrupted me in the middle of a play call and said, "Jesse you really need to turn around and see this..."

Piss on team sports in general.  Buncha millionaires drafted by a corporate t-shirt marketing syndicate, rooted for by a buncha dumbfucks who don't care about anything except which division of said t-shirt syndicate is branded with the name of their home city.  Give me a prizefight of any stripe (boxing, martial arts, whatever) any day.

I love baseball, so I get a little irritated that football has taken over as America's sport of choice.

Edit: It still blows my mind that I see cheerleaders whenever I go to Marlins games. I'm from New England and there's no telling what would happen if we had cheerleaders at a Red Sox game.

There is no professional sport I enjoy watching. I ride my bike too much for my own good, but watching others do it is boring as hell. I think I could like baseball, but they don't do that around here much and I had the opportunity to see it on TV once in 33 years.

They didn't show Cheerleaders in that game, though.

Making A Football entertaining would be eliminating much of the game delays.

IMO.

I like it when the band of wealthy mercenaries drafted by the division of Major League Baseball(tm) based in the major city closest to my location wins a game.  It's like I'M winning.

I like it when the band of wealthy mercenaries drafted by the division of Major League Baseball(tm) based in the major city closest to my location wins a game.  It's like I'M winning.

I played either baseball, football, soccer, basketball or whatever pretty much every day of my life from 7 through 15 or so and then only 2 or three times a week for the next 10.  I think many other people had very close to the same experience growing up.  I find it entirely unsurprising that people like to watch those games played at a very high level.

I'm a big baseball fan myself (never seen any cheerleaders at a baseball game before...).  Any particular reason you are interested in it?  I know its only popular in select regions outside the united states, so it kind of interests me to listen to Europeans who actually have an interest in it. 

Sky, let me take time out and tell you you fucking rule.

Is half of your hard drive SW pics that are organized by relevance to different topics?  c:\my pictures\SW\Stormtrooper\football\1.jpg?

:)