I think cheerleaders are fine of they're treat well. Yes, they're going to be sexualized, but so will the players whose asses get gawped at by women and gay men alike. At the very least they shouldn't have to be living trading cards passed around friends and investors or whatever.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Of course it's antiquated, and as a result, beloved by people with antiquated social sensibilities.
An NFL player kneeled for the national anthem and it resulted in snowflakes destroying their Nike gear. You think they will just roll over and let you take their eye candy?
People snooty about observing the anthem during a game and whining about kneeling, like Trump, are probably unfamiliar with the history of it. In a sense, their view isn't antiquated. It's ignorant. The anthem is barely over a century adopted. Baseball and football only started playing it in the 40s (and kept on with it out of some sense of rememberance). And players outside of the Super Bowl wouldn't even be on the field for the anthem until after 9/11.
IMO, I don't think the anthem needs to be played at a game outside of an event that specifically calls for fellowship and unity. Every single time otherwise just cheapens it. But the "patriots" bought into it so that's that, I guess.
Pentagon Paid Up To $6.8 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Pro Sports Teams For Military Tributes 2015/11
Honors shouldn’t be “taxpayer-funded marketing gimmicks,” senators say in new report.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/defense- … 1d306eda5e
Don't like paid patriotism? Bunch of RINOs!WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense doled out as much as $6.8 million in taxpayer money to professional sports teams to honor the military at games and events over the past four years, an amount it has “downplayed” amid scrutiny, a report unveiled by two Senate Republicans on Wednesday found.
Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake began looking into the Defense Department’s spending of taxpayer dollars on military tributes in June after they discovered the New Jersey Army National Guard paid the New York Jets $115,000 to recognize soldiers at home games.
The 145-page report released Wednesday dives deeper, revealing that 72 of the 122 professional sports contracts analyzed contained items deemed “paid patriotism” — the payment of taxpayer or Defense funds to teams in exchange for tributes like NFL’s “Salute to Service.” Honors paid for by the DOD were found not only in the NFL, but also the NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS. They included on-field color guard ceremonies, performances of the national anthem, and ceremonial first pitches and puck drops.
“Given the immense sacrifices made by our service members, it seems more appropriate that any organization with a genuine interest in honoring them, and deriving public credit as a result, should do so at its own expense and not at that of the American taxpayer,” the report states.
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