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What happened to male cheerleaders? And
female ones?

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Posted By: pensom2, 11/27/2023 10:31:05 AM

Back in my day, cheerleaders were hot and gorgeous, at least at the University of Colorado/Boulder where I watched them. They were the best-looking girls on campus, and that was saying a lot at the time in Boulder. After I graduated and left Boulder, they were evidently unable to attract the same quality without me. In fact, they resorted to male cheerleaders. There were sniggers that the male cheerleaders were probably a bit light-footed, if you know what I mean. That was before light-footedness, if you know what I mean, became the Next Big Thing. But male cheerleaders mostly faded

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Reply 1 - Posted by: JackBurton 11/27/2023 10:50:28 AM (No. 1605769)
I was watching football on Saturday (I have no use for the NFL even now that they've stopped their kneeling) and got glimpses of the cheerleaders. I remarked to my wife, "they sure look well fed." She didn't disagree.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley 11/27/2023 11:53:31 AM (No. 1605817)
Cheerleaders. Bah. They are popular only because they were those little short skirts and encourage everyone to look up them. Other than that they are snobs and very often downright mean to each other and those below their social station.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: red1066 11/27/2023 12:39:08 PM (No. 1605848)
I noticed that USC hasn't had a problem recruiting hot cheerleaders. At least judging by the ones that the camera guy focused in on.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rather Read 11/27/2023 1:13:18 PM (No. 1605864)
I began college in 1969. We had male and female cheerleaders. Both of them were more like gymnasts than anything else.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: kono 11/27/2023 1:33:46 PM (No. 1605880)
Typical material from Glenn Beaton is either fun to read and moderately insightful, or insightful and moderately fun to read. This is somewhere between those...
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Maggie2u 11/27/2023 1:37:46 PM (No. 1605881)
Be sure to read the comments at the article.
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