Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Feature – Part 4

The Girls of Paradise … Sydney
By Mickey Spagnola
Dallas Cowboys Star Magazine
(by way of DallasCowboysCheerleaders.com)
June 27, 2011

Sydney Durso didn’t spend Christmas with her family last year for the first time. She was in Seoul, South Korea, one of 12 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders going overseas for a 10-day USO Tour, riding to different bases and detachments on Chinooks to visit the troops.

A unique experience, especially visiting the few soldiers manning those secluded detachments where “they see other people like once or twice a year,” Sydney says.

Well, the experience for Sydney and five of her teammates became even more unique this past Christmas season, the North Korean border within eyesight. Remember, the Cowboys played Christmas night at Arizona, so there they were, six Cowboys Cheerleaders watching the Cowboys-Cardinals game with the soldiers based at the detachment on Christmas.

“We went in and put the game on, and it was so cute, we were in the tiniest room ever,” Sydney says. “There was a huge American flag hanging, like one sofa, two dogs running around this room, and the TV was on. We’re watching the Cowboys game and playing Jenga with the soldiers, and it was so cool because we weren’t at the game, obviously, but we were still cheering on the Cowboys and the soldiers were cheering with us.

“It was a different experience but a really cool way to watch our Cowboys play.”

And to spend Christmas, if not with your family.