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[โ€“] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I always wondered why there were so few male cheerleaders in the pros, when they're in every other level. In high school, many of the football players were also cheerleaders. They did crazy acrobatic stuff, helped support the big pyramids, catch the girls, throw them around, etc... As I understood it, that stuff continued into college with competitions, etc... It was a whole sport. Then professional cheerleading mostly seems to just be girls shaking their boobies very modestly for 15 seconds before the Bud Light commercial.

[โ€“] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Because the pros are and always have been a watered down money grab of a sport compared to the pagentry and history of gridiron football's true roots at the college and amatuer level.

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