Posted on 08/18/2018 10:39:27 AM PDT by libh8er
After spending about $100 on lower-bowl tickets and driving 2½ hours from the Lafayette area, Tracey Hernandez was nervous as she took her seat near midfield of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Friday night.
It wasn’t the preseason game the Saints were about to play against Arizona that worried her — the dance instructor hardly watches football. What mattered to her was how her son, Jesse, would fare in his debut as the first-ever male member of the Saintsations, New Orleans’ NFL dance team.
The crowd in the stadium was the biggest Jesse had performed in front of since his dancing career began 23 years ago, at the age of 2.
The teasing and taunts he braved when he became the first boy to perform on the dance team at North Vermilion High School in his hometown of Maurice still stung Tracey.
But she calmed herself by reciting Jesse’s achievements up to this point — the competitions he’s won, the instructor gigs, his stint coaching the dance team for a minor-league hockey franchise in Lafayette that she herself once danced for.
She remembered how countless people had come up to her after word broke that Jesse had made the Saintsations and told her, “We are proud of him; we support him; give him our congratulations” — even burly men visiting the Harley-Davidson motorcycle shop where she works.
While she admitted being annoyed at online commenters who in recent weeks had insulted her son’s masculinity for becoming a Saintsation, she brushed them aside as kickoff time approached.
“Those people just need to get over it,” said Tracey Hernandez, who attended Friday’s game with three family friends, one of whom had an oversized, cutout picture of her son’s face.
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That one busted every gain filter in my Gaydar. Now down for repairs. Thanks a lot.
Why does ‘She’ have a different outfit?
They are cramming it down our throats on all media and in the schools.
One more f*cking reason to boycott the NFL. What a frigging faggot! Makes me want to puke just looking at him. Probably get HIV just standing next to the pervert. Ewww!
He’s really a “man” he just plays a “woman” in real life.
his dancing career began 23 years ago, at the age of 2.
Oh for Gods sakes
Thath’s tho nith
If I wasn’t already boycotting the NFL, I sure would be now.
You know, it would have been nice to go the rest of my life without seeing that sh!t.
A face only another gay man could want.
Good thing they can’t reproduce. Which is why they MUST secularize, MUST recruit new converts.
wait. His mom ( of COURSE!) is offended that people are calling out his lack of masculinity? Has she seen him? at least he doesn’t have a man bun. On his head.
you want to see that in a skirt?
From America hating protests to this faggotry. The NFL is finished. Not that I ever gave a sh-t about football, anyway.
I believe he is a cis-male gay so he is still identifies as male and wears male clothing. That may change though, I don't know. I don't think he has fully found himself yet.
The NFL is stupid. This will not appeal to the NFL’s audience. This will increase the number of people who boycott the NFL.
Then he should dress the part.
Sure isn't going to help.
I would love to see it on national tv
The Gay and commie loving NFL owners are suicidal re their teams.
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