The Inland Empire 66ers, the Los Angeles Angels affiliate, are looking for a few good girls…for their dance team.
Saturday, January 15, 2011 at Arrowhead Credit Union Park.
All interested persons 18 years and older, should arrive at the facility by 10:00 a.m. for registration. Please bring a resume, head shot, and a swimsuit photograph. Please wear two piece dance attire, game day ready hair and make up.
Arrowhead Credit Union Park
280 South E Street, San Bernardino, CA 92401
This audition is closed to the public. For more information, please contact Amber Cash at ambercash66@yahoo.com.
Fall weather returned to Southern California just in time for the playoff run. The San Francisco 49ers flew into town to battle their in state rival, the San Diego Chargers, in a game that would determine their playoff fate. A loss this late in the season would inevitably doom the loser to post season oblivion,
On paper, this game seemed to be an even match between two inconsistent, but talented teams in the midst of their division races. But in reality, the Chargers showed that the 49ers have a way to go to be considered worthy of such an honor. Philip Rivers threw three touchdown passes to Vincent Jackson and the Chargers defense stifled the 49ers, giving up only one meaningless touchdown in the last three minutes of the game. The Chargers soundly defeated the 49ers, 34 – 7.
In the Battle for California…advantage San Diego.
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And now, we begin the stream of consciousness portion of our article. I have often wondered if people read my articles or if they just look at the photographs. We shall see, but I am getting ahead of myself.
Last Sunday in Qualcomm stadium, it was announced that the rock band Foreigner would be playing in the Bud Light Power Party at the final home game of the season. I found it a little curious that they would play a pregame party, but I was up to hear them play. I am more of a The Clash kind of guy, but a free concert is nice. I would later find out that they were promoting a new album and during the game, their songs would be played while the Charger Girls danced.
While in the power party, CG Maria informed me that she and a few of the other Charger Girls would be performing along with Foreigner on the stage. Now that’s cool. Unfortunately they were scheduled to perform around 4:15 PM and I would already be inside the stadium. I like to get in early to avoid any potential hassles and being that this was the last game, I was going to try to bring in my long telephoto lens. If you have read my prior article, Odysseus and the Charger Girls, you may remember my difficulty in doing so. Other ticket holders have reported to me that they had no issue bringing in and using such equipment recently, so I wanted to see if I could too for this special game.
Fortunately, I was able to bring it in and was able to get some decent shots of the Charger Girls in their famous Blue Velvet Christmas Uniforms.
Okay let’s begin this week’s coverage of the Charger Girls with the Line Captains: Tiffany, Katie, Giselle and Ashlie.
While in the Bud Light Power Party, I met several friends and family of the Charger Girls. I met Giselle’s parents and her boyfriend. I ran into Brianna’s mother. And I had the opportunity to meet Kylie’s grandmother and her father, who knew of me from my personal website, thehottestdanceteam.wordpress.com. It was nice meeting them and getting to chance to chat with them.
I visit the Power Party often, usually to get a calendar or photo autographed. But I also hang out there to chat with the Charger Girls and garner a tidbit of information or two. For example, I discovered Amy is 28 years old (she looks a lot younger, if you ask me!) and has a beautiful daughter. I usually don’t include photos of children, but I had her permission, so I snapped one with my iPhone 4.
And in talking to the girls, I sometimes answer their questions about the blog or my articles. Courtney asked me if I was still recognizing a Charger Girl of the Day. Apparently, she missed out on last week’s honoree and wondered if I discontinued the practice. I assured her that I still recognize the CGOTD and will continue to do so in the future.
Well I hope she catches this week’s Charger Girl of the Day.
Introducing Courtney, this year’s final Charger Girl of the Day.
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I just came back from the Chargers game against the 49ers and Director Lisa Simmons has announced that the 2010 Charger Girl Pro Bowl Representative is Natalie.
Congratulations to Natalie for an honor well deserved.
It was an unseasonably warm day in San Diego. 83 degrees to be precise. While most of the country was busy shoveling snow and wearing multiple layers of warm clothes, I was putting on sun block and wearing shorts as I strolled into the friendly confines of Qualcomm stadium. I was there to watch a pivotal game between two powerhouses of AFC West football.
The Kansas City Chiefs were in town to play the Chargers in a game that had post season implications. With a win, the Chiefs could essentially claim the AFC West title and slam the door shut on the on again, off again Chargers. But a funny thing happened along the way to the division title. Chiefs starting quarterback Matt Cassel had an emergency appendectomy on Wednesday leaving journeyman Brodie Croyle at the helm.
Now let us take this opportunity to recap Brodie Croyle’s record as a starting quarterback. It’s 0-9. That’s zero wins and nine losses.
Make that 0-10.
One week after getting their butts kicked by the Oakland Raiders, the Chargers played one of their most complete games in franchise history. They thoroughly dominated the Chiefs in all facets of the game. After four quarters of play, the Chiefs had a paltry 67 yards of total offense while giving up 426 yards to the Chargers. Equally startling was the time of possession, which favored the Chargers, 40:10 minutes to only 19:50 minutes for the Chiefs. As a consequence, the Chargers defeated the Chiefs, 31 – 0. With the win, the Chargers keep their slim playoff hopes alive.
Perhaps it was the heat that did in the Chiefs. Oh, I’m not talking about weather. I’m talking about this kind of heat.
I got into a little bit of trouble the last time I mentioned the Charger Girls in such cheeky fashion. Last year during preseason, I entitled an article, “Hot Sweaty Charger Girls”, but I had to mollify my editor who thought the title was too provocative and I changed the title to “Hotter than a California Wildfire”. But the tongue and cheek reference to the sizzling hot look of the Charger Girls is genuine. This is a good looking squad and they are talented dancers as well.
So let us start this week’s coverage of the sizzling hot Charger Girls with the Line Captains: Tiffany, Katie, Giselle, and Ashlie.
I do want to say that Katie is one of my favorite Charger Girls to photograph because she always gives me some interesting looks.
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Halloween was two months ago, but when the Raiders come to town it always looks a little bit like a horror show. I saw a guy in the parking lot dressed up as a 10 foot tall grim reaper and a Raider fan sitting behind me wore a skull mask. Now I know the Raiders wear black and are supposed to be pirates or something, but what’s with all the skulls and death imagery? For God’s sake…its just football!
Qualcomm became a house of horrors as the Raiders took the football and smashed the Chargers in the mouth…again and again. It was perhaps the most pathetic game I’ve seen the Chargers play against the Raiders. The Men in Black rushed for over 250 yards and their defense thoroughly dominated the Chargers offense. And their fans came out in force to support their team, turning Qualcomm stadium into a home game for the Raiders. It was a house of horrors, indeed.
The Raiders ghost ride the whip in celebration of defeating the Chargers, 28 – 13.
It was alumni day at Qualcomm and several old time Charger players were introduced to the fans before the game. And in what must have been a first, former Chargettes (60s – 70s), Chargerettes (80’s) and Charger Girls (90’s onward) were on hand for the player introductions. The Charger Girls were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of their organization and wore throw back uniforms to commemorate the event.
Now last year, I mentioned that I didn’t think that the Charger Girls ever wore such a uniform, but I was incorrect. I found a photo of the Chargettes who cheered in the 60’s and 70’s.
Love the white gloves and the saddle shoes. Stay classy San Diego!
Well let’s begin our special throw back uniform coverage of the Absolutely Fabulous Charger Girls with the Line Captains: Tiffany, Katie, Giselle and Ashlie.
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The San Diego Chargers have a rivalry of sorts with the Denver Broncos. There’s a lot of history between the two clubs and the past few years, the Broncos were the Chargers main competition for an AFC West Division title. And to make matters worse, there was bad blood between the two team’s signal callers, until Jay Cutler whined his way out of Denver last year.
One week ago, the Broncos defeated the AFC West leading Kansas City Chiefs in convincing fashion, so on paper this week’s game looked like a good one…an important one if you have aspirations for the post season. It has been typical of the Chargers to start the season out slowly, losing to teams that they should have easily beaten. So this game was a must win. And with a Monday Night Football audience, it was a chance to prove the Chargers belonged on the list of contenders for post season honors.
So on a cold California evening, the Broncos took the opening kickoff and drove the length of the field to score a touchdown and then they promptly gave up the next 35 points to the Chargers before scoring a meaningless touchdown in the fourth quarter. The Chargers bucked the Broncos, 35 – 14.
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Late Fall is vacation time for me and one of the places that I love to visit is San Francisco. Arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the world, it is even more spectacular when the weather is nice. And it was very nice this past weekend.
With temperatures in the high 70’s and beautiful clear blue skies, San Francisco was the place to be last Sunday…and I am not speaking only of the weather. The St. Louis Rams were in town to play the 49ers in a clash of NFC West powers. In a game that that ebbed and flowed, the 49ers and Rams fought each other to a tie at the end of regulation. In overtime, a Joe Nedney field goal sealed the victory for the 49ers.
And while the game was good, the San Francisco Gold Rush cheerleaders were spectacular.
Candlestick Park is not in one of the more scenic parts of San Francisco, but as a football venue it has its own unique charm. The patina of rust and grit make for a nice blue collar atmosphere. Football is a blue collar sport and that was one of the criticisms I had of the Rams back in their Anaheim days…that Rams football became too much of a wine and cheese type crowd event. So, it was refreshing to come back to the Bay Area and see some blue collar, rough and tumble football. And the fans…they look like they’d just been released from a methadone clinic, but they were hard core fans and that’s good enough for me.
I arrived early to meet up with Rex, our Bay Area correspondent. We were there to photograph a performance of the Gold Rush in the Bud Light Goldmine. That’s one of the great things about going to a game a Candlestick Park.
After their performance, the Gold Rush signed autographs and posed for photographs with the fans. I took the opportunity to take a few posed photographs for our readers.
Rex informed me that it was Junior Gold Rush day, so I made my way to my seats to await the Gold Rush’s pregame performance.
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In a titanic struggle between two NFL powers, the Chargers fought through an inconsistent first half of play to come from behind and defeat the AFC South leading Tennessee Titans. Things did not bode well for the Chargers when the Titans blocked a punt for a safety on the first series of the game, continuing a trend of poor special teams play. But Philip Rivers and his rag tag band of receivers fought valiantly to overcome the Titans, who were buoyed by the return of quarterback Vince Young. In the end, the Chargers found enough courage and consistent play to score two touchdowns and two field goals in the second half to defeat the Titans, 33 – 25.
And if that wasn’t enough excitement for the 59,260 fans in attendance, it was also Halloween! And you know that means…the Charger Girls dressed in their Halloween finest!
For readers of this blog, the Halloween game is one of the most anticipated of the year and the articles that are derived from this special date are amongst the most viewed on our site. And I can understand why. Not only do you have all this Charger Girl goodness, but you have them all gussied up in some of the sexiest and most alluring attire in the NFL.
Enough hyperbole. Let’s begin our special Halloween coverage of the Charger Girls by introducing the Line Captains: Tiffany, Katie, Giselle, and Ashlie.
Giselle suffered an injury last week and wasn’t able to perform, but she was back this week with her shoulder all taped up, toughing it out. Welcome back, Giselle!
We have a lot of awards to give out this week, so let me introduce this week’s Charger Girl of the day…second year Charger Girl Natalie as the alluring Cleopatra.
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The Chargers and the New England Patriots have a rivalry of sorts…if you consider consistently losing to the Patriots a rivalry. This week was no different. The Chargers fumbled, bumbled and stumbled their way to a loss and perhaps a losing season.
It wasn’t that the Patriots were moving the ball consistently against the Chargers…they weren’t. It wasn’t that the Chargers offense couldn’t move the ball against the Patriots…they did. But when the game mattered the most, the Chargers played sloppy and turned the ball over while the Patriots executed. The Patriots took advantage of four first half turnovers to take a 10 point lead at half time. That lead was pushed to a 20 – 3 advantage in the fourth quarter before a furious Charger comeback effort fell short. Final score, Clam Chowders – 23, Chargers – 20.
If the Chargers don’t find some answers soon, things will start to look bleak. Well, at least the Charger Girls sizzled in their pink breast cancer awareness tops.
Let’s begin this week’s coverage with the Line Captains: Tiffany, Lauren O., Katie, and Ashlie. Line Captain Giselle was injured and not in uniform today, so second year veteran Lauren O. took over for her.
When I was in the Bud Light Power Party, I overheard part of a conversation Katie was having with two Patriot fans, who also happened to be Boston Celtic fans. I had to point out to them that she was also a former Laker Girl and to even the most die hard New England fan, that was impressive. It’s all good in the Power Party.
This week’s Charger Girl of the Day hails from Highland, California and was an Inland Empire 66ers Spirit Girl…introducing the statuesque Brianna.
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For the past several years, the Phoenix Suns have held a preseason game in the city of Indian Wells, California, which is just a stone’s throw from Palm Springs. One interesting aspect of this game is that it is played in the outdoors at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, better known as the home of the BNP Paribas Open. So, I was interested in covering this event since it would be played in a unique setting and would feature the Phoenix Suns Dancers, one of the hottest dance teams in the NBA.
Kari Herrick, the Manager of the Suns Dancers, allowed me exclusive access to the squad as they prepared for their Indian Wells visit. In this article, we will give our readers a glimpse into all that is involved in preparing for game day from the perspective of a Suns Dancer. What is it all like? Long hours, hard work and being an ambassador of the organization from the moment you arrive. So, please enjoy our article on a day in the life of a Suns Dancer.
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