The NFL under the leadership of Roger Goodell is back to yet another controversy that is causing backlash and a possible boycott. Somewhere, somehow, in yet another apparent closed door meeting some progressive liberals thought it would be a good idea to implement male cheerleaders in the squads of female NFL cheerleaders, but they could not be the traditional males of the past.
This idea would probably be fine if they were the same kind of Eureka College Ronald Reagan (40th President) male cheerleaders who were holders of the female cheerleaders in aerial acts, or shout the cheers in cheer cones so fans could follow along, but this is not who these male cheerleaders are or what they do.
That would be too American, too traditional, too old-fashion. No, somebody decided we had to have the feminine variety of male cheerleaders complete with inappropriate makeup, female body swagger, who can barely lift their equipment bags, added to 12 of the 32 NFL teams to have cheer squads.
NFL Vikings cheerleaders Blaize Sheik and Louie Conn responded on social media, sharing a photo together in their Vikings uniform with the caption: “Wait … did someone say our name?”
“Male NFL cheerleaders respond to social media backlash” – GMA
These two Minnesota Vikings male cheerleaders are openly gay and much of America is livid and promising a boycott until they are gone similar to the Bud Light boycott of two years ago that ended transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
As one poster so succinctly outlined the problem in a post to YouTube “The male cheerleaders in the 50s and 70s and all that didn’t move and talk like women. They didn’t dance like them either. They would pick up the women and throw them in the air and stuff like that. They had a bull horn and would try and get the crowd going. The male cheerleaders back then and today are like night and day.” – @TheGuitaronfire76
Then, whoever is behind this actual conspiracy to trash yet another American tradition seemingly decided it would be funny to further aggravate most Americans by shooting a video where these two male cheerleaders appeared in a women’s bathroom with two female cheerleaders to further stir the pot.
“Vikings male cheerleaders spark outcry dancing in same bathroom as female teammates in viral video” – New York Post
CONCLUSION:
I have some personal knowledge of NFL history with interesting connections to the Chicago Bears, one of the original NFL teams. I once had a job mowing the lawn of Chicago Bear Coach and Owner George “Papa Bear” Halas Junior. I graduated high school with Gary “The Hit Man” Fencik who went on to get a ring as #45 of the 1986 Super Bowl Bears team. I have visited the Ironton Tanks stadium in Ironton, Ohio (built in 1926) where the Chicago Bears once played. Ironton is also where the first Thanksgiving Day football games were played before that tradition moved to Detroit.
Then, some 50 years later I had a relative try out for the Chicago Honey Bears cheerleading squad. The Chicago Honey Bears lasted from 1976 to 1986. She made the squad but turned them down as they paid very little per game. She said even though you had a season pass to every home game, you could not watch the game as your back was always to the field during play. On top of that, she explained details to me how Honey Bears were not paid for practices and the Bears organization was so cheap, they refused to fly the girls around the nation for away games.
The story goes that after a disastrous 1975 season for the Bears, then owner and NFL founder George Halas Senior, decided to bring “dancing girls” to the Bears in 1976. I think George was taking a page from the Dallas Cowboy’s Cowgirls which dated back to 1961. For the record, the first NFL team to have cheerleaders was the Philadelphia Eagles with their squad of the Eaglettes, in 1948.
But then both George Halas Senior and Junior passed away and the way their wills were written the team went to Virginia Halas-McCaskey, sister of George Junior, and the Halas grandchildren got completely left out of team ownership. Resulting lawsuits went to favor Virginia McCaskey.
The Bears won Super Bowl XX in 1986, two seasons after her father “Papa Bear Sr.” (George Senior) died in 1983 and six seasons after her brother “Papa Bear Jr.” died in 1979. Later in 1986, Virginia decided to disband the team’s cheerleading “Honey Bears” stating that their field performances were “sexist and degrading to women”.
A lot of Bears fans were really angry both at how the Halas grandchildren got left out of team ownership and how Virginia retired the Honey Bears. I was one of those fans. Now, at least for the cheerleader decision she made, I feel like I need to go visit her grave at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois and apologize to her.
Thank God my beloved Chicago Bears are one of those 32 teams to have no cheerleaders! This means that we will also be having no LGBTQ+ male cheerleaders, either!
AND, before some insane lefty lib calls me “homophobic”, that is not even a real word. Only the American Psychological Association (APA) is qualified to diagnose phobias, not the LGBTQ+!
This video is an example of another controversial agenda that, once again, includes children:
This video is an example of male cheerleaders in a traditional American role, no children are involved:
Watch these two videos closely and then you tell me which one of the two involves the most talent and has the most entertainment value.
© 2025 by Mark S. Schwendau
