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supafreak84 · Yesterday, 11:11 AM

Anybody else catch this? The Vikings now have male cheerleaders that will be flip flopping around with the female cheerleaders this year. I'm already getting my balls busted over it at work. "Vi-queens" living up their names and all kinds of things. I'm sure I'm not the only one..

I know the Wilfs are the most progressive of progressive owners and use the teams platform to support any and every one of their social causes, but dudes....do you not have a read on who your audience is and who makes up a majority of your fanbase? This is akin to the Bud Light debacle, in that a majority of the fanbase (safe assumption) does not want to see male cheerleaders flopping around and twerking with their pompoms during the games. I've heard some rumor that their are season ticket holders threatening to cancel their tickets over this. Anybody else heard anything similar? It sure would be nice if the league and owners would just focus on football and stop trying to cram social narratives that most don't agree with down the throats of their fanbases. Just a thought

MaroonBells · Yesterday, 11:28 AM

Right? I’m canceling my trip to Minneapolis this fall and selling my tickets. I don’t care that the Vikings have had male cheerleaders in the past. I don’t care that several other NFL teams have male cheerleaders. I don’t even care that most major college programs have male cheerleaders. This is the god damn Minnesota Vikings and I share your concern. I mean, what if we find them attractive? What if they make us gay?

supafreak84 · Yesterday, 11:34 AM

(Yesterday, 11:28 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: Right? I’m canceling my trip to Minneapolis this fall and selling my tickets. I don’t care that the Vikings have had male cheerleaders in the past. I don’t care that several other NFL teams have male cheerleaders. I don’t even care that most major college programs have male cheerleaders. This is the god damn Minnesota Vikings and I share your concern. I mean, what if we find them attractive? What if they make us gay?

Not sure if you've seen, but these aren't your standard male cheerleaders hoisting and tossing the females into the air. These are short shorts wearing, booty shaking, pompom waving type. Have we had those before?

MaroonBells · Yesterday, 11:36 AM

(Yesterday, 11:34 AM)supafreak84 Wrote: Not sure if you've seen, but these aren't your standard male cheerleaders hoisting and tossing the females into the air. These are short shorts wearing, booty shaking, pompom waving type. Have we had those before?

LOL

supafreak84 · Yesterday, 11:40 AM

(Yesterday, 11:36 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: LOL

Coming to a jumbotron near you...enjoy

purplefaithful · Yesterday, 12:05 PM

Male cheerleaders have been around forever...I guess I dont see this as a big deal

MaroonBells · Yesterday, 12:12 PM

DeepFreeze05 · (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 12:18 PM by DeepFreeze05.)

purplefaithful · (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 12:31 PM by purplefaithful.)

I think there's a way to include male cheerleaders that I would consider tasteful and that wont send woke meters off the charts...

Whether the Vikings decide to be a bit more conservative with it (or not) remains to be seen. It's hard not to offend anyone, but its not impossible.

Hell, Bama does it well imo:

supafreak84 · (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 01:01 PM by supafreak84.)

(Yesterday, 12:28 PM)purplefaithful Wrote: I think there's a way to include male cheerleaders that I would consider tasteful and that wont send woke meters off the charts...

Whether the Vikings decide to be a bit more conservative with it (or not) remains to be seen. It's hard not to offend anyone, but its not impossible.

Hell, Bama does it well imo:

See the above post by deepfreeze to see the direction the Wilfs decided to take it. Whats next? I suppose the drag queens will be greasing the goal posts at US Bank before we know it.