It’s more than a sideline, featuring Raiderette Tracy

Today, we feature photos of wonderful Raiderette Tracy, along with a few fun facts meant to illuminate the mind and dazzle the senses:

• Tracy is a Raiderette rookie, but also danced next door to O.co Coliseum at Oracle Arena as a Warrior Girl
• The Raiders had another Tracy on their roster, cornerback Tracy Porter
• names.whitepages.com reports that 462,496 Americans are named Tracy, and 82% are women
• MC Hammer currently lives in the city of Tracy, California
• During the early 1970’s, young Hammer would sell stray baseballs and dance accompanied by a beatboxer in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot. A’s team owner Charlie Finley saw the eleven-year-old doing splits and hired him as a clubhouse assistant as a result of his energy and flair
• When she isn’t dancing at the Coliseum with energy and flair, Tracy is a devoted stay-at-home mom
• Written as a book “for children and those who love children,” Heidi is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather’s care, in the Swiss Alps. Heidi was written in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri and is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature
• The “Heidi Game” was played on November 17, 1968, and the Raiders defeated the Jets, 43–32. The game is remembered for its exciting finish, as Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to overcome a 32–29 New York lead. It came to be known as the Heidi Game because NBC controversially broke away from the game, with the Jets still winning, to air the television film of Heidi
• Weeks later, the Jets hosted the Raiders on December 29th to determine who would play in Super Bowl III. The Jets defeated the Raiders, 27–23, and two weeks later, Joe Namath and the Jets defeated the Colts in the big Super Bowl upset
• The Heidi movie starred actress Jennifer Edwards in the title role, and she is stepdaughter of singing star Julie Andrews
• Raiderette Tracy’s first music purchase was singer Toni Braxton’s “Unbreak My Heart” when Tracy was eight years old
• Regarding broken hearts, Bess Myerson once wrote that “to fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful”
• US News’s “8 Steps to Mend a Broken Heart” include “#3. Turn up the radio. Science suggests that music has a therapeutic effect. Blare some of your favorite, feel-good tunes: Listening to them can trigger the release of endorphins, lifting your spirits and combating stress”
• “Turn Up the Radio” is a song by Madonna from her twelfth studio album MDNA (2012), and also a different song by American glam metal band Autograph and the lead single from their 1984 debut album, Sign in Please
• The hobby of collecting autographs is known as philography
• Six-time Grammy Award-winner Toni Braxton and her sisters, Traci, Towanda, Trina and Tamar appeared on Dr. Phil
• Toni Braxton was discovered by William E. Pettaway Jr., who heard her singing to herself while pumping gas
• That would not have happened in Oregon and New Jersey; attendants are required to pump gas because customers are barred by statutes in both states from pumping their own gas
• In the Simpson’s episode “Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield,” Mr. Burns pulls into a gas station in his Ford Quadricycle, and says to Marge, “You there! Fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post haste!”
• Mr. Burns’ heart is shrunken to the size of a cherry
• Beyonce’s I am…Sasha Fierce album contains the song “Broken-Hearted Girl” which was co-written by Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds
• Raiderette Tracy would LOVE to be a dancer for Beyonce, although I think it should be vice versa
• Word on the street is that Beyonce is scheduled to perform tonight at the First Lady’s 50th birthday party at the White House
• President Obama memorably spent his 48th birthday using the ten-pin lane at Camp David, where he reportedly bowled a 144 with three strikes and a nine in the last four throws
• Tracy’s favorite moment as a new Raiderette was their mini-camp when they all went bowling and spent time together. Tracy liked bonding with the her new teammates, laughing, being silly, and forming friendships
• We hope those friendships and fun influence Tracy to be back for season two in the Raiderette sisterhood!

More Tracy photos in the gallery below and a few more at this link