Cecil Cecil you so fine, you so fine you blow my mind, heeeeeeeey Cecil!
Well coming from England I didn’t have much idea of what is involved.
I watched the video and have to say I’m bloody exhausted, those gals sure put everything into it.
As Jodi points out there is a hell of a lot more to it than just chanting
Yes. Even tuition plus salary.
I didn’t mean to imply that I thought cheerleading was a bad thing; I don’t. I think it is a good way for the little girl to stay active, although I do worry about injuries from being a “flier”. She is the one being tossed around like a beanbag. I just worry about how much this all costs! Of course my friend’s finances are none of my business, but I do get to listen to her rant about late child support!
Did anyone else’s high school have a “powder-puff” football game? Mine did, it was an annual even where the girls played a game of touch football and boys from the football team served as the cheerleaders. That was the extent of male cheerleading at my school.
I didn’t mean to pick on you or anything. 
But I do feel odd when I hear people complain about what seems to me perfectly normal child expenses. Well, of course the kid is going to cost money, was this a surprise to anyone? I understand some complaining, but some people really seem to resent that they might have to give up some things so the kid can have things. One of the women at my SO’s office constantly whines about her kid’s expenses while at the same time boasting how much she’s “ripping” her ex for child support and how her new cell phone just doesn’t have enouguh bells and whistles and she’ll have to buy more.
Honestly, is it so wrong to be a little frugal so your kids have more? +
I initially read this as “surfing polecats”.
Then I remembered seeing TV footage of a waterskiing squirrel.
-Cem
Growing up in rural Lousiana, we had powder-puff football games. They were a pretty popular event. I think all of the schools around there had them.
The mom doesn’t complain about how much it costs - I am the one kind of worried about it! Of course I would never in a million years say anything to her about it! I just wonder how a single mother of three can come up with all of the money she will need for the out of town trips she’s talking about! I just vent a little bit here and life goes on!
My friend has a good handle on things apparently. Talking to her on the phone the other night, I heard the 5 year old in the background pitching a full blown tantrum. Turns out the cheerleading school had come out with a new t-shirt ($12) and my friend had declined to provide it for her daughter. It was the end of the world as we know it, if you judge by the sounds coming from that child!
And so the childless worrywart goes on about her business…
I guess out of town to merkins means a trip of around 2 million miles, maybe just a bit less, 
In the UK we only gotta travel just a few miles either way and we’re swimmin’ 
" I want someone to get these muthahfuckin’ linemen off of this muthahfuckin’ field !! "
In suburban Philly, cheerleading squad was a verrrrry big deal. At least it was in the late 1970’s. Now my kids are in H.S. and the girls travel with the teams, go to state and regional competitions.
Then again, things have changed in major ways. Over 50 percent of [serious injuries] that occur in female athletes are due to the sport of cheerleading.
Sobering.
Cartooniverse
Doesn’t really matter if you are a “Hero” does it
Injuries? what injuries?
Just wanted to add that the word a few of you are looking for is “clique” (an exclusive group), not “cliché” (a trite expression).
Also, a scrunchie is bigger and “puffier” than a regular hair rubber band. The term “scrunchie” is derived from the way the covering fabric “scrunches up” when the rubber band is relaxed. See here.
Are you asking in general? Modern cheerleading can be quite dangerous and result in paralysis or death.
“Cheerleading is one of the most dangerous sports/activities - The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports nearly 25,000 cheerleading injuries required emergency room care in 2001. This segment focuses on the University of Nebraska cheerleading squad which is no longer allowed to perform aerial maneuvers after one of its cheerleaders was seriously injured six years ago. OTL also speaks with Dale Baldwin, a University of Kentucky cheerleader paralyzed after performing a stunt in 1986, and the sister of Janis Thompson, a North Dakota State University cheerleader killed doing a stunt in 1986”
In my high school in NC, we did, and it was a featured event, played in the main field with nightlights and all. In my Jr year, I played. We were trained and coached by the football players for a month ahead. I was named MVP of the game for a great flying grab of flags (flag rather than touch), landed on the ground with a forward roll out, both flags in each hand. Yay!, for the 5’2" skinny science/art girl! Unfortunately, I had taken down the tallest, biggest, most serious sports jock girl in the class, and she had it out for me from then on. But, hell, it felt good then, and was all speed and determination, my only sports achievement. It did get me more regular cred in the halls though, instead of the brainy image.( ahh, going on here, but when the hell will Powderpuff football come up again???)
Because, it was the South, where football is a religion. In NC, and then, living in MSPI, cheerleaders are high priestesses to that religion. It’s undertaken very seriously, and, having watched some of the collegiate national competion at Ole Miss,
very athletic.
But aren’t most male cheerleaders thought of as little better than eunuchs by their team members?