Do We Need The LSU Cheerleaders?
Jun 7th, 2008 by gtull1
We’re not going to make many friends with this post, but can anyone please explain why we need the LSU cheerleaders? Alec says that they are an important part of tradition. George says that they don’t add anything to the game (unless he has binoculars- joking! lol). We came up with a little list to try to figure out if we need the cheerleaders at the LSU football games.
Reason to keep the LSU cheerleaders:
1- They help get the crowd into the cheers. Alec says that this is their most important function. He says that the crowd wouldn’t be half as exciting without the cheerleaders.
2- It’s a tradition. It’s hard to argue with tradition. I don’t know how long the LSU cheerleaders have been performing, but they have been doing it since before I was born.
3- They do some cool acrobatics. Watching those guys flip them girls around in the air is kind of neat I guess.
4- The LSU cheerleaders give the television cameras something to focus on between the plays. Who wants to watch football all the time anyways I guess?
5- If they didn’t have their jobs as cheerleaders, what else would they do? We may be helping them girls stay off the streets by letting them flip around on the sidelines.
Reasons to dump the LSU cheerleaders:
1- They are annoying. I know all you 30 and 40 somethings may find this hard to believe, but everyone doesn’t go to Tiger Stadium just to see if some skirts will fly up at the wrong time (or right time, as the case may be).
2- We could take the money spent on clothing, feeding, training, and transporting the LSU cheerleaders and spend it on something useful like cool new stickers to place on all the helmets.
3- They get in the way of my view of the field. If you have ever sat near the bottom section of Tiger Stadium, you know that you are like 100 feet below the level of the field. You just might be able to catch a view of the ball when it’s thrown 50 feet into the air, as long as those pesky LSU cheerleaders stay out your way.
4- What’s up with the guy cheerleaders? Yeah, yeah. I guess someone has to flip the girls around, but can’t we find some Russian women that could take care of that for us? Do we really need guys dressed in their little prissy outfits running around and telling us to shout with them?
5- Sure, they may be the best jumpers and flippers in the world, but have you ever tried to have a conversation with an LSU cheerleader? If you’re expecting any words to come out of their mouth with more than two syllables, you can forget about it.
What do you think? Should we keep them or dump them?
1. I think the primary idea about having cheerleaders was stated correctly.
In circumstances where the team is losing, they can help organize the crowd, when they are bummed out.
2. I like seeing the girls with their beauty and lusciousness. It makes my hormones do a happy dance.
I perk up just seeing them. I presume it does the same thing for the football players, some on a personal level. I am sure that the recruits hope so, so it is a kind of recruiting tool, whether they ever meet them or not.
3. Guy cheerleaders are a tradition. In the Ivy league the first cheerleaders were guys, with good voices, with megaphones.
Nowadays the guys’ primary function is to flip girls and hold them up for view by a camera conveniently located under their pubic bone.
4. The northern teams have started an apparently evil (to we testosterone driven men), but reasonable and civilized dress code. The cheerleaders actually dress for the weather, so the Big Ten cheerleaders are dressed in thick pants and warm hats and gloves, like normal, sane people would do, when it is snowing or below zero.
After my innocent years in Louisiana, I went to grad school in the north, and the new dress code is a sane move. I was stunned the first few times I had to walk to class in the snow. If I could change one thing I ever did, it would be to go to grad school in the deep south.
The first time I heard a weather forecast that said, “high tomorrow 5 above, low tonight 5 below” I should have just packed up my golf clubs and transferred back home to south Louisiana.
Happy day.
Keep them! Cheerleaders are an institution; every high school and every college in the country has them. It would be practically un-American to get rid of them.
The picture you have at the top of the page is of the Golden Girls, not the cheerleaders. In my humble opinion, our Golden Girls are the prettiest, most testosterone-riling women in the country and a source of serious pride to LSU fans for that fact. As far as keeping the cheerleaderw, thats a no-brainer! Gawd knows we need em from time to time!
No problem with having cheerleaders,, but is there a chance at getting a girl that does not look like she is on the 6th grade track team. If we could get some girls with some curves and mountians it sure would be NICE seeing them jump around and PUMPING up the crowd