Rah! Rah! Sis Boom Bah! By Alysa Offman Metro Times September 3, 2014 When they got their start five years ago, the Detroit Pride Cheerleaders were kind of a joke. Actually, that’s literally how they started. Andrea Wilamowski was catching a game with her husband and a Lions executive when the idea crossed her mind. […]
James, East Coast Correspondent|Published on May 14, 2014
By John Froelich Detroit Free Press The NFL draft weekend provided the perfect backdrop for football starved fans from all over Metro Detroit to celebrate the upcoming season when the Detroit Pride – the unofficial cheerleaders of Detroit’s professional football team – selected their new squad during the Detroit Pride Cheerleader Finals Showcase at the […]
David Tyau, National Correspondent|Published on Feb 26, 2014
Over the years, I have photographed many professional cheerleaders and as luck would have it, three of them were cast on current television shows. Morgan, a former 49ers Gold Rush member, is currently on the latest edition of Survivor, Survivor: Cagayan, and is featured on the premiere episode entitled, Hot Girl With A Grudge. And […]
Dave, Midwest Correspondent|Published on Oct 6, 2013
You know, it really was an unfair challenge. After all, it has been almost 30 years since the Bears fans had their own Honey Bears on the sidelines. They are a vulnerable species when it comes to cheerleaders. So when the Detroit Pride Cheerleaders and their Directors, Andrea Wilamowski and Megan Agrusa, came up with […]
Dave, Midwest Correspondent|Published on Sep 29, 2013
Saturday night, the Detroit Pride Cheerleaders held their calendar release party, which showed their continued growth and prominence in Detroit’s sports scene. The unofficial cheerleaders that cheer on the Detroit Lions presented a Caribbean theme for the party. Most of the calendar was shot during a cruise to the Bahamas, St Maarten, and St Thomas, […]
Metromix Detroit has a collection of photos from this year’s auditions for the Detroit Pride cheerleaders, now going into their fourth season. Good for them! Too bad the Lions organization is being a bunch of buttheads about it. From what I hear, they won’t even show the cheerleaders on the jumbotron during a game. Any […]
By Carlos Monarrez Sports Writer Detroit Free Press April 13, 2013 Can 26 of 32 NFL teams be wrong about having cheerleaders? How about 34 of 47 Super Bowl winners? During a town-hall meeting Tuesday at Ford Field, Lions president Tom Lewand reiterated the team’s opposition to cheerleaders. “I’m a traditionalist,” he said. “… The […]
James, East Coast Correspondent|Published on Apr 3, 2013
By Gina Joseph Macomb Daily Detroit Pride cheerleaders have been invited to perform during Sony Max TV’s international broadcast of the 2013 Pepsi Indian Premiere League Cricket Championship, April 3-May 26. Yes, cricket. “When I first got the call I was kind of surprised, too,” said Andrea Wolmowski. As director of operations for Woodward Entertainment […]
David Tyau, National Correspondent|Published on Jul 9, 2012
The Detroit Pride Cheerleaders are a relatively new squad that is trying very hard to become the official cheerleaders of the Detroit Lions. Recently, the squad purchased new Angela King designed uniforms to look more like their fellow NFL cheerleaders and I must say that they look terrific. Although the Pride brought many girls to […]