More and more female sports writers are finding themselves in the newsprint sports pages and this is a good thing. They are questioning shit that your Rick Morrissey, Rick Telander's and Rick Reilly's ignore all of the time in print sports media being males and one of this is the need for women cheerleaders. Shannon Ryan is a new breed of sports writers and recently she wrote sports article shaming the NFL for still having the sexiest tradition of scantly clad young women on the sideline at games. Six NFL teams refuse to have this role that for so long was the NFLs only suitable role for women but this is slowly changing as women become more officials, trainers, sideline personal, and like Shannon sports writers.
The misogyny game of the NFL is slowly breaking down but a stubborn resistance will be that all but six teams still insisting paying shapely women thirty bucks a game to dance around like strippers warrants an NFL game day experience. An article like this likely fumed a few males reading this who long back and advocate sexy stuff being a normal part of the Sunday game action but this is really a bad tradition and signal to the growing legions of female NFL fans who don't need to be reminded that their self-worth is often represented and decided through body imaging. The men running the NFL have long been clueless about the image they are giving by only having sexy women be cheerleaders and the objectification this portrays of women to the twisted gratifications to men especially in a place where it don't belong which is the sporting field. 
The pornification of cheerleaders in recent years as been increasing as the outfits get skimpier and skimpier for some organizations every year and perhaps none other example was as sick as the Philadelphia eagles cheerleaders some years back where they basically were next to naked. The days of females only being eye candy on NFL sidelines is history and women involved with these organizations need to press for change of these belly dancers.
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