Male Cheerleaders Set To Make NFL History in 2018

By Ralph Warner, NFL.com
Published: Aug. 6, 2018 at 07:24 p.m.

The 2018 season is still 31 days away, but it’s already shaping up to be a historic one. For the first time in NFL history, there will be male cheerleaders on the sidelines.

Napoleon Jinnies and Quinton Peron will be cheering on the Rams cheerleading squad. The Saints will have a male cheerleader on their cheer team, too. Jesse Hernandez, a 25-year-old male dancer who made the Saintsations, said he was inspired by Peron and Jinnies.

“My mom had sent me a link about the L.A. Rams cheerleaders that just had made the team a couple weeks ago,” Hernandez told KATC in April. “She told me that it was my time to shine.”

Cheerleading has been a part of the NFL since 1954 when the Baltimore Colts added a cheer squad to their marching band. Today, 26 of the 32 teams in the NFL have official cheerleading squads.

One Reply to “Male Cheerleaders Set To Make NFL History in 2018”

  1. Also noticed that NFL.Com and S.L.Com have dropped showing photos of cheerleaders, infact the new look webpages over at the NFL.Com has changed so much you can’t even save photos anymore, is this the begining of the end for Cheerleaders, as for male cheerleaders in the NFL no thanks!

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