Posted on 01/31/2015 11:04:34 AM PST by C19fan
A new bill introduced Thursday in the California Assembly would provide cheerleaders of professional sports franchises with employee benefits and a minimum wage guarantee.
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) introduced AB 202 on Thursday in “a move that will better protect cheer athletes in the state from workplace abuses and bring equity to the multi-billion dollar professional sports landscape.”
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When you think about it, there's something idiotic about having cheerleaders on an NFL team that plays many of its home games outside in some pretty cold weather.
No! We must have cheerleaders, good looking chicks & lots of them! They make the entire enterprise worth it.
Otherwise, why pay hundreds of dollars for a seat just to watch some millionaire kick a football?
I”m with you there.
Joe Piscarcik
A lot of conservatives are left-brained literal analytical thinkers. Even a post dripping with as much sarcasm as yours can benefit from the helpful <sarc> tag.
Thank you.
I hear that they won a Super Bowl a long time ago
The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American sports history.
J-E-T-S ! ! !
Well, if there are no cheerleaders, Jets fans would get to enjoy the spectacle of their last decent quarterback hitting on female sideline reporters in a drunken stupor.
Helped, in no small part, by Broadway Joe’s mob connections. Those were the days.
Do they draw fans? Do they improve the business value? Are they required to provide a service for the business?
Then they should be paid appropriately.
They did have the smarts to ditch this hideous idea, and haven't had a squad since 1969. I attribute their 70's success, rather than Chuck Noll's draft choices, to the move.
Not all of them. Some are teachers and other professionals with a cheerleading background. The NFL would be more likely to get excellent, qualified females who are talented cheerleaders, capable goodwill ambassadors, and strong voices for attractive and successful women if the salary were an expression of their worth.
I am not being sarcastic. Attractive, accomplished and intelligent women have a shortage of role models.
Just one more reason that football should be watched from the superior vantage point of the couch.
Actually, I was afraid you weren’t.
What do you object to?
Broadway Joe’s mob connections
Yep. So do strippers.
Do they improve the business value?
Dubious. If they do, it's for reasons that have nothing to do with football.
Are they required to provide a service for the business?
Required? Hell no. They're shake-and-shimmy decorations, nothing more.
There are plenty of exhibitionist women who would -- and DO -- work for free.
The rest of your post is inane. Pay them as much as the practice squad? Please be serious. Do you know how much work the guys on the practice squad do? They are talented athletes who simply [for the most part] can't compete at an elite level. As for the NFL taking the opinions of professional gyraters seriously in their quality of employment and marketing decisions, that is an idea beneath the intelligence of any life-form more complicated than a mollusk to even consider, let alone propose.
If you’re going to football games for the skin show, you’d be better off spending your money at a strip club. At least you’d be indoors and probably have a better view.
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