Question about cheerleaders!?!?

Question

What do you think about cheerleaders? I absolutely hate it when people say that cheerleading is not a sport! I AM a cheerleader and I think we deserve a lot more props than people are giving us. I mean we have long practices too. We work out(hard) and we do a lot of things for a lot of people. We do a lot for football and basketball! We actually do so much and people don't even noticed. So please, just say what you want to say. And maybe you could get best answer!

Answer 1

Okay, I'm from the old school (48 yrs old) and I was a cheerleader in high school (you know, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth!).  I was not a snob, far from it, but I was a soccer cheerleader, not basketball and they were the snobs (we didn't have football in our small school).  I know we worked out hard, and back then, we did back handsprings, backflips, no spotters.. during pep rallys on the gymnasium's wooden floor!  Yes, I believe its a sport, we did get a letter for particpating...

HOWEVER, I DO NOT believe that women should be playing the sports that are traditionally for men and that's where I believe cheerleading comes in to play.  Men should be the only s*x that plays football.  I don't and didn't like ANY of the girls sports.  Maybe field hockey but that was about it.  And why are women so darn interested in joining the men's team?  You don't see the reverse, do you?  I don't remember ANY guy in high school trying to get on the girl's hockey team!!!

There you go...

Answer 2

Professional aren't the same as college or high school cheerleaders. They're dancers. They do have to work their butts off training and they don't get paid as much as you'd think they would.

Answer 3

Cheerleaders are amazing and nice to look at

Answer 4

nobody likes cheerleaders for their dancing and flipping and waving their pom-poms! we just like staring at their b*****s and short skirts!

Answer 5

If you go to cheerleading competitions then it is definately a sport, however if you don't do that it isn't a sport (my highschool never went to competitions they just cheered.) If you compete it's a sport (of some form or another), if no competition no sport.

Answer 6

I was very good friends with the majority of the cheerleaders in my high school. I think the sport is very physically demanding, but they do get obnoxious fro time to time... Something about cheering at a soccer game just doesn't make sense at all.

Answer 7

I knew a lot of cheerleaders when I was in college and they were in the gym everyday , always running and working on routines, I swear they did as much running as we did on the Football team , I would have to say it is defineately a sport .

Answer 8

I don't know anything about sports, except that school is obsessed with sports for some reason.

I have nothing against cheerleaders. I envy their stamina and agility.

Cheerleading is a lot of work and practice, but if you are not competing , how is it a sport?

I mean, there's indirect competition for the other team's cheerleaders, but not a..."dance-off,"  if you would.

Calling it a sport would mean that the guy who lettered the helmets for the team is also involved in some kind of "competition" in need of recognition. Maybe he is........I think you've touched on something!

As for snobs, I think that depends on the town. I mean, in my school, we had fat annoying bigmouth chix that nobody liked. I think there's a type of non-racial affirmative action that goes on in sports these days, including cheerleading. Some overdone PC.

Aside from Fatty Arbuckle, we had some good drug-addicts wiggling around on that human tower.  I only saw the pics, since I had no interest in being at the school at hours other than school hours. But I guess that's what the bigger chix were for, anchoring the wasted junkies on the top of the tower, or pyramid, whatever you call it.

Those chix had free reign in school, never got in trouble for anything. They used to go to parties out of the school district, and s***w strangers of questionable backgrounds.Old men, even. But it never got back to the school crowd, cuz nobody knew kids in that town. Except me,lol.

Answer 9

cheerleaders r hott, but they dont giv a **** bout the sport, dont kno whats goin on, and dont do ****...

Answer 10

Cheerleaders are a big part of sports tradition. I understand that cheerleaders work very hard at what they do; so I don't really think it matters if somebody considers it a sport or not. It's really a unique thing; and good arguments can be made for either side.

But I know you work hard, and you and your fellow cheerleaders know it, too. Don't get caught up in peoples' opinions.

Answer 11

Look cheerleading is not a sport.

#1 - Long practices don't make an activity a sport.  If I spend hours practicing walking up and down stairs down stairs that make it a sport?

#2 - "We work out(hard)"  

My mom works out hard and the gym all the time... does that make going to a gym a sport?

#3 - "we do a lot of things for a lot of people"

I volunteer at a homeless shelter every Sunday... does that make it a sport?

#4 - "We do a lot for football and basketball"

So does the team manager... is giving people water bottles a sport?

Now comes the argument for competitive cheerleading... I think that all those crazy jumps and flips do quantify as something that can be classified as a sport, but still competitive cheerleading is not a sport.  Gymnastics IS a sport.  Dancing is not a sport...  It can be a competition though.  Like ballet, other types of dancing is more closely related to art and other forms of expression.

Saying all this, I give props to cheerleaders for putting in hard work and I am a big believer in school spirit. But you can't really look at me with a straight face and put cheerleading on the same level as football, basketball, baseball, or hockey?  

Answer 12

i think some cheerleaders can be mean and some could be nice. Kind of jealous of them too because they can do all those spins and stuff. but they can sometimes be conceited though. sorry.  but i would love to learn how to do all those spins and backflips. it looks hard. my mom was   a cheerleader so i don't hate them.   :P

Answer 13

I knew a couple of cheerleaders when I was in high school (this was 20 years ago!) and they were very serious about it as athletic.  They also weren't snobs, which I think can be a common misconception.

I still am friendly with one of them.  She's got three kids, runs marathons and is still in fantastic shape.

Answer 14

I am sorry. But I always though that cheerleaders were snobs and all they cared about was being popular and stuff. I have been told to become a cheerleader and i just think I wouldn't fit it to that. My name is Brittney, I am 16 years old  and 5'5 or 5'6...something in that range. So what would you say and I am a blond...

Answer 15

I love having cheerleaders at the games. It is tradition, and it would not be the same without them.