WGRZ.com
October 9, 2014
BUFFALO, NY – If you’ve been on Twitter and Facebook lately you may have been seeing a lot of the hashtag “Bring Back the Jills.”
A former Buffalo Jill is rallying to bring back the NFL cheerleading team with a new T-shirt campaign and she’s using that hashtag to help do it.
Gabrielle Farah has created these shirts to bring awareness not only for the fans who are feeling the loss of the Jills on game day but to show that the Jills are missing being out on the field as well.
“It’s pretty much to get our name out there,” she told 2 On Your Side. “People are missing us on the field. We were such a big voice in Buffalo.
We had such a strong leadership role for women in our community.”>
She hopes that under the new ownership of Terry and Kim Pegula that the Jills will be back someday soon.
The shirts come in red and blue with the phrase “Bring Back the Jills” on each side.
There is also a limited edition grey shirt as well.
The proceeds from the shirts will go toward fundraising for their comeback, and a portion will be donated to Hunter’s Hope.
Aaaaand…bringing up the rear, the St. Louis Rams have finally gotten around to updating their cheerleader pages. Still no bios, but they’ve got everyone in uniform. ‘Bout time, y’all!
Week five brings the pinkness. Click here to get your blush on!
Yahoo Sports has been posting extensive galleries of NFL cheerleaders this season. There’s some overlap with NFL.com and Sports Illustrated, but enough different ones to make it worth checking out.
It’s October, and you know what that means? Pink at the beginning of the month, and costumes at the end of the month. Click here to see the NFL teams showing their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month!
I deeply covet those sparkly pink boots.
Hazen grad Errin Williams said the adrenaline was 'crazy' at the Seahawks home opener against Green Bay. — image credit: Tracey Compton, Renton Reporter
Renton Reporter
October 5, 2014
The Renton Reporter caught up with Errin Williams recently, one of the newest Seahawks’ Sea Gals and Hazen High School grad of 2014.
Breezing into Top Pot Doughnuts at The Landing, in a burned-out Seahawks’ tee and jeans, hair perfectly coifed, she told me her experience on the squad thus far has been wonderful.
Her first home game on the field against the Green Bay Packers was an adrenaline rush, she said.
“It was nerve-wracking, but we were really prepared for it,” Williams said. “It was just nerve-wracking to see all the fans for the first time up close because you always see them on TV, but to actually be there was, like, unbelievable.”
Williams tried out for the squad last April for the first time and made the cut, competing against 200 other contestants and veterans. Now she dances at all the Seahawks home games and participates in promotional events for the team.
“When the game starts, we jump right into it, coming out doing our first opener routine, then going straight into the five lines and cheering and dancing,” she said.
Williams is still trying to get used to the idea of someone always watching her on the field, be it TV cameras or 60,000-something fans. She calls the players “co-workers” and said their paths really don’t cross much except for an occasional “hi” in passing.
The cheer squad and the players are in two different worlds, doing their own thing, according to Williams. She’s a fan of all the players, saying each one brings their individual talents to the game, making them a Super Bowl-winning team.
But Williams seems more blown away by the spirit and enthusiasm of all the team’s fans.
“Just meeting the fans and some many new people is just awesome,” she said. “I think that’s the biggest thing for me is meeting all the different kinds of fans we have and just seeing so many different faces.”
The Sea Gals are also required to take part in promotional events and sell their calendars. Promotional events could be signing autographs, performing, cheering on runners at community races, attending charity events, filming commercials or other activities.
Williams is just beginning to balance her time with school work as she just started classes at Bellevue College. There, she is studying organizational communications and hopes to transfer to the University of Washington. Williams has three classes and practice twice a week, a schedule that isn’t as rigorous as her days at Hazen with six classes and being on the drill team, she said.
“It’s still pretty rigorous because I think for drill we just performed and just did the dancing side of it,” she said. “[With] the Sea Gals there are so many other components besides dancing on the field, with practice and promotional events and just managing your schedule and things like that.”
More than anything, it’s still the dancing that Williams likes the most.
“Just getting out there and getting in front of the fans and just knowing that they’re all admiring you and just love watching you – so, I think the biggest thing is just getting out there and performing for me.”
Click here for week 4 photos on NFL.com!
Lots of new pics on Sports Illustrated. Click here for photos from week 4.
Janine, Megan, and Kaila
The Ravens website has finally been updated with individual uniform shots and profiles of the female members of the team. Click here to learn all about the ladies! Also of note: we have two ladies joining our fun lists. Veteran Jaime joins the Decade of Dance club, and rookie Julieanne joins our list of sisters who have cheered professionally. Congrats, ladies!
(Meanwhile, come on Ravens, how you gonna do the fellas like that? Can’t they at least get a group photo?)
