SI.com has posted a large gallery of images of cheerleaders from Week 2 of the regular season. Click here to view the gallery.
Our good friends from the Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders write us that the MVC debuted new uniforms and two new dance routines at last week’s game against the Green Bay Packers. Check them out here.
And here are a couple of photos of their classic “Baby Helga” uniform.
Did I mention that purple is my favorite color?
Tour De Force: \ˌtu̇r-də-ˈfȯrs\ noun – an impressive performance or achievement that has been accomplished or managed with great skill.
This past Sunday, the Jacksonville Jaguars roared into town to play the San Diego Chargers, who were fresh off a disappointing meltdown loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Things would be different this week as the Chargers stormed out to a 35 point lead and never took their foot off the accelerator. Philip Rivers threw four touchdown passes, tying a career high, and Melvin Gordon ran for 102 yards and another score. A strong defensive effort by the home team doomed the hapless Jaguars, who crossed midfield only six times during the game. This game was over at half time.
Final Score: Navy Blues – 38, Teal Blues – 14.
However, the news wasn’t all good. For the second week in a row, the Chargers lost a key player for the year due to injury. Versatile running back Danny Woodhead tore his ACL and joined Keenan Allen on injured reserved. Who’s next? Philip Rivers?
Well…on to the good stuff…the hottest dance team in the NFL, your San Diego Charger Girls!
I play fantasy football (five championships and counting!) and I have never seen a beginning to a season like this, where there have been so many serious injuries to key players…star players. It’s mind boggling. Let’s hope this misfortune doesn’t plague our favorite sideline entertainers, our beloved cheerleaders.
Okay, let’s begin this week’s coverage of the Charger Girls with the Captains: Marissa, Delani, Bridget, and Teran.
The Ladies of Ontario Fury, the premiere dance team in the MASL, have announced their pre-audition workshops, presented by Fresh Peaches Custom Swimwear. Click here for more information and to register.
Workshop #1 (Pro Dancer Workout & Audition Prep)
- Date: Sunday, September 18, 2016
- Time: Registration 12:45pm | Workshop 1pm-3pm
- Location: The Look Fitness (2125 San Joaquin Hills Rd, Newport Beach, CA 92660)
- Receive a full body workout and fitness/nutrition tips from Pro Dance Trainer, Bryan Green from The Look Fitness
- Plus, learn previous choreography and get audition prep!
- Limited Availability – Must pre-register to save your spot!
Workshop #2 (Audition Ready Make-Up/Hair & Audition Prep)
- Date: Sunday, September 25, 2016
- Time: Registration 12:45pm | Workshop 1pm-3pm
- Location: The Talent Factory (13613 12th St #A, Chino, CA 91710)
- Receive overall audition/game-day make-up/hair tips from current dance team member, Brittany with a full make-up tutorial
- Plus, learn previous choreography and get audition prep!
How to Register
You must reserve your spot ahead of time by submitting your information to the right and submitting payment. We will have limited availability for each session to ensure personalized time for each attendee.
Registration Fee
- 1 Workshop = $25 Fee
- 2 Workshops = $40 Fee (Save $10 when signing up for both!)
What To Wear
- Comfortable dance tire. Jazz shoes, athletic shoes or dance sneaker
What To Bring
- Water and towel
- Optional: Audition outfit, Application/Head Shot to pre-register for auditions
What To Expect
- Learn a short routine in the style of dance we perform during the season (different routine taught at each workshop)
- Receive personal feedback after workshop
- Go through a mock-audition, so you know what to expect on the day of auditions
- Workshop #1: Receive fitness and tips from Pro Dance Trainer, Bryan Green from The Look Fitness
- Workshop #2: Receive overall audition/game-day make-up/hair tips from current dance team member, Brittany with a full make-up tutorial
- Different routine will be taught at each workshop
- Receive audition tips from Dance Team Director, Lynae de Leon
- Question & Answer session
- Meet new people and have fun in a comfortable and safe environment!
NFL teams that hosted games during week 1 of the regular season have uploaded photos of their cheerleading squads to their team sites. Click on the links below to go to the team page galleries.
Denver Broncos
Kansas City Chiefs
New Orleans Saints
New York Jets
Philadelphia Eagles
Tennessee Titans
Houston Texans
Baltimore Ravens
Atlanta Falcons
Seattle Seahawks
Dallas Cowboys
Indianapolis Colts
Arizona Cardinals
Washington Redskins
San Francisco 49ers
NFL.com has posted a gallery of cheerleader photos from week 1 of the regular season. Click here to view the gallery.
Si.com has posted a large gallery of cheerleaders from week 1 of the NFL regular season. Click here to view SI.com’s gallery.
The Atlanta Falcons have posted two galleries of cheerleader photos from preseason. To view the week 1 gallery, please click on the photo below.
To view the gallery from week 4 of preseason, click on the image below.
Just checking to see if you are paying attention. Of course the Pittsburgh Steelers don’t have cheerleaders…not anymore. They did at one time and they were called the Steelerettes…in fact they were the first NFL team to have cheerleaders. The group only lasted nine years, due mainly to the owner’s traditional values. By the late ’60’s, other NFL teams were using cheerleaders with skimpy outfits, and this didn’t sit well with the family that owned the Steelers, who subsequently discontinued the squad.
And here’s an Associated Press article from 2006 highlighting the history of the Steelerettes that was originally posted on ESPN.com.
Steelers first to have cheerleaders, but now don’t see the need
Updated: January 31, 2006, 5:50 PM ETAssociated Press
PITTSBURGH — They wore knee-length skirts, bobby sox and hard hats, and couldn’t fraternize with the players. Their pay? One ticket per game.
The Steelerettes were the first females of the gridiron, long before Seattle’s Sea Gals, Oakland’s Raiderettes and the Buffalo Jills. And get this: Pittsburgh had guy cheerleaders, too — the Ingots.
But the NFL’s first rah-rah squad was far from a group of midriff-bearing dancers that root from the sidelines today, make public appearances and — like the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders — star in their own reality TV show.
The Steelerettes of the 1960s also didn’t last long — just nine years.
“Other teams started bringing in cheerleaders and it was very different from the kind of wholesome group that we were,” said Patricia Tanner, 58, of Ohio Township, who was a Steelerette from 1965-68. “It seemed like our era had passed and Pittsburgh’s a very traditional town, so I don’t think we would have gone that direction.”
The Steelerettes were started for the 1961 season, a year after the Pirates won the World Series.
The Steelers were having a hard time giving away tickets at Forbes Field. William V. Day, the Steelers’ entertainment coordinator, thought adding cheerleaders to the sidelines might change that. Day, who at the time was vice president of Robert Morris Junior College, also thought it could help the school, which didn’t have a football team of its own.
So he spoke to his good friend and team owner Dan Rooney.
“I said to him one day, ‘You got a team without cheerleaders and I’ve got a college without a team,” Day said.
Day came up with the name Steelerettes, who were all Robert Morris students.
Dianne Rossini, of Uniontown, cheered for the Steelers in 1963 and maintains a Web site dedicated to the group. She said the women were chosen based on their looks, personality, coordination and gymnastic ability.
They also had to maintain a 2.0 grade-point average and take a football test — mostly showing they knew enough about the game to know when to cheer.
Norreen Modery, 61, of Bethel Park, saw the tryouts advertised in the school newspaper and made the team in 1964.
“There were a lot of empty seats but we were out there having a good ol’ time,” said Modery, who remembers the cheerleaders were always positioned on the visitor’s side and occasionally got run over by players who were knocked out-of-bounds.
She left the squad after a year to get married; only single women were allowed to be Steelerettes.
The women performed to live music, and a baton twirler was added in 1962. The team also briefly added male cheerleaders, called the Ingots in homage to the steel mills that were the lifeblood of the city.
But in the late 1960s, the Steelers started talking about plans to build Three Rivers Stadium and changing the direction of the team. Other NFL teams had started using cheerleaders and the skimpy outfits didn’t fit in with the Rooney family’s traditional values, Day said.
“The thinking … was we wanted the emphasis to be on the team — and that doesn’t sound like a momentous decision, but that was what the idea was for all the times that I was with the Steelers,” said Day, who worked with the team for 25 years.
So the Steelerettes did their last pyramid for the 1969 season. The Steelers went on to win four Super Bowls over the next decade, and have sold out every home game since 1972.
Numbering about 60 in all, the Steelerettes had a reunion in 2001 at Heinz Field, and since then regularly meet every few months. Steelerettes memorabilia, including Tanner’s old uniform, are on display at the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.
Modery said she’s flattered to be a part of NFL history, though that wasn’t her motivation at the time.
“Back then you never thought of anything instead of just enjoying what you were doing,” Modery said.
Tanner said she learned a lot about exercise and discipline from the experience and made lifelong friendships from her days as a Steelerette. She also said she understood why the team scrapped the Steelerettes.
“All you have to do is look at a Steelers pep rally,” Tanner said. “They don’t seem to need any coaching and encouragement.”
The Tennessee Titans have posted a couple of galleries of the Tennessee Titans Cheerleaders from preseason. Click on the image below to see the gallery from week 1.
And to view the Titan’s gallery from week 2 of the preseason, click on the image below.
