I see them as sex workers. OK by me. As long as they don’t have to lecture me on things they know nothing about like the NFL players do.
Pay? My bro-in-laws brother was married to a Redskinette... nice girl, bank manager (all the ladies were career professionals) and back then it was pro-bono, but fund raiser’s and some donations paid for a few trips and other odds and ends.
We would get a calendar every Christmas.
I ran into a few Tennessee Titan cheerleaders at a Walmart in Cooksville once, we had a nice chat and their circumstances were much the same as the redskinettes. So, they were out drumming up some support money.
This article was the first I have ever heard of cheer sections getting paid, Per se. Maybe it’s just a term they use but in days gone by it wasn’t a paid position.