I see that the New York team beat the New England team in Sunday’s Superbowl. (That’s about as detailed a technical insight you’ll get from me into American Football, to be frank).
What’s interesting is that the TV news here before the game showed an interview with four delightful cheerleaders drawn from the New England squad. It seems their team was to have the upper hand, since the New Yorkers were one of the few sides not to have their own cheerleadering troupe.
So the defeat must be the cheerleaders’ fault, right? They can’t have whipped up their supporters into enough of a frenzy to encourage the players out on the field.
I can imagine the post-match aftermath. The cheerleaders would have been made to take off their uniforms and shower, then lined up to await the coach. He’d enter the changing room, decidedly unimpressed with the girls’ performance, and would order them forward one-by-one to be paddled. Very soundly – for after all, this was a particularly important match.
And I believe that the position of cheerleader is voluntary and without pay. One even has to audition and attend hours and hours of rehearsals….So this paddling you conjured up….are we to assume it is their fringe benefit?
Rob i think the big football and basketball teams have pro cheerleaders who are paid but maybe it is an additional ‘bonus’…if so do you think they’d spank the girls at their auditions as well as making them cartwheel about?
Rob, I think the cheerleaders for professional football teams do get paid, unlike their counterparts in high schools and colleges (universities). I must admit that I watched most of the game without having noticed which team had them. Now that Abel has enlightened me, I’m doubly glad to have supported the Giants (the winning ‘New York side’).
Abel, can you make England’s recent rugby loss to Wales kinky, too?
Rugby? Did someone mention rugby? Was there a match last weekend?
It’s so cute that you called it a match. You never hear anyone call an American football game that.
I don’t care much about football but I was glad that the Giants won because they were the underdog team and also because I live in New York.
Abel,
It doesn’t fit the norm here, but (if truth be told) the cheerleaders should spank New England’s coach. Without going into detail, there are many who think he is arrogant and stand-offish. A good paddling would do him good.
mitch
Well if they are paid I suppose spanking would be part of the contract then…
But speaking of different sports, perhaps the English could consider a cheer leading squad for games likes cricket. God knows they could do with the help….
Cheerleading for cricket?
Give me a Y….
Give me an A…
Give me a W…
Give me an N…
Bear in mind they’d have to whisper, too!
Still, at least the tea would be good…
Littlenic: That’s funny but very naughty indeed. When a certain supporter of the game reads that comment, he just may have to make an entry into a certain little book of his…
Littlenic, I’ve always taken the tradition of stopping for tea in the middle of a cricket match as a sign that it’s so boring even the players need a jolt of caffeine before they can continue. Perhaps cheerleaders would change that, at least for the players?
Me, I’d rather look at the players. Actually, I rather like watching cricket on television with someone more knowledgeable around to explain the strategy– just not all day long…
Cricket is truly the most boring game in the world- 5 days is just way too long…cheerleaders might help…especially if they ‘accidentally’ knocked over a few wickets whilst bouncing about to end the ordeal more quickly!
Indiana: I may be wrong about this too, but I’m not altogether sure that the cricketers DO drink tea during ‘teatime’. Oh where is Abel when you need him? He could answer such important questions…
Oh! I’m feeling a bit outnumbered here, I don’t find cricket boring at all, I think it’s great…as is rugby. Local cricket teams DO drink tea at teatime… I’ve seen them, but maybe the International players have coffee, or more likely some high energy drink that tastes vile, perhaps if any are reading they could let us know?
Oh crikey. Is Abel a big cricket fan? Bugger bugger bugger bugger bugger….
How can anyone be a big cricket fan? I just thought the game was what you had to endure before they broke out the Pimms.
littlenic: More than a fan. He’s a player. A while back Australia was thrashing England and I happened to ask Abel what he thought of the cricket score. As I recall his response was “Cricket bats have other uses, Rob.” Poor littlenic!
I’ve always thought that cricket it just a pretend game for those who want to appear manly by ‘liking sport’ but actually are too afraid to get hurt. They’re all on the same side, really. Why else would they all wear the same colour kit?
Hahah Smudge just totally summed up my view on cricket.
Aren’t these comments ‘un-English’. Can’t you get arrested for this kind of heresy in England? Shouldn’t somebody DO something…..