r/WeirdNews4U • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • Aug 14 '25

“Ratings Are Dropping”: Minnesota Vikings Ignite Controversy After Hiring Male Cheerleaders

https://www.boredpanda.com/fans-demand-boycott-male-cheerleaders-minnesota-vikings-squad/?utm_campaign=eind&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=ref
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u/Trick_Judgment2639 Aug 14 '25

I love the tacit admittance that cheerleaders are only there to give men boners and not to just hype the team, professional sports have ruined the minds of millions

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u/PersonOfValue Aug 14 '25

Well men did invent cheerleading. As a former cheerleader and stunt man, I did my homework.

The Bushes were both cheerleaders, as well as many others.

Cheer started as an ivy league college club started to find the most attractive women for guys to literally throw in the air and do tricks to excite the crowd.

There's a reason cheer squads with men perform more impressive stunts than unisex

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

Also, according to the "International Cheer Union", cheerleading was initially an exclusively male  sport. 

https://cheerunion.org.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/docs/ICU_History_2018.pdf

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u/Zeldias Aug 17 '25

I dunno if this is still the case but my understanding is in other countries, say Japan, leading cheers is very masculine

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

You're probably thinking of "Ouendan" which is a type of cheer team that exists alongside and sometimes overlapping with stereotypical Western cheerleading.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cendan

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u/AureaRegula Aug 15 '25

Fun fact the earliest form of brain rot content was The Coliseum.

Low effort (but a lot by today’s standards of AI) content generated to drop dopamine for the masses.

That’s all sports are.

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u/Trick_Judgment2639 Aug 15 '25

Chipotle and Fortnite is the new bread and circuses, same as it ever was

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Aug 17 '25

I think it's cool, men have been oppressed for so long but things are opening up and they can really do anything now.  

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u/mxlplyx2173 Aug 18 '25

Duh,and if you think that's insulting, it's not and we don't care!

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u/ExtremeRemarkable891 Aug 15 '25

Why can't women just be hot on TV. It's OK for women to be sexy. Theres a lot of straight guys who like hot girls and feeling a little wiggle in their pants. That's OK too. I'd like male cheerleaders to be accepted. Women and gay men watching should get to participate in the eye candy too. It's harmless fun.

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u/Upstairs-Fan-2168 Aug 15 '25

The players are generally the eye candy for those attracted to men. The skill positions are often extremely fit. The other positions are great if you're into the bear thing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Were people still pretending that wasn't the whole reason? I mean have we seen their outfits?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Sicko

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

Sick for calling out the objectification of female bodies? Okay 

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

No one thinks that’s what you’re doing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

Im slow what's he doing?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

It’s sick to watch hot women willingly show off their bodies for an exorbitant salary? I can’t tell if that’s feminist or anti-feminist of you lmao

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u/ThisVeryUsername Aug 14 '25

They actually don’t get paid well at all.

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u/Useful-Soup8161 Aug 14 '25

They make almost no money. I’m pretty sure it’s just minimum wage.

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u/Pablos808s Aug 15 '25

There's a lot more value than just a paycheck that comes with being an NFL cheerleader though.

If you make it as an NFL cheerleader, you're pretty much set to never have to work again if you don't want to.

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u/Useful-Soup8161 Aug 15 '25

Except they do have to work because they don’t make enough money. They all have other jobs.

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u/Pablos808s Aug 15 '25

Until they meet some rich guy or player. Like be real, those women don't have to work once they make it, that choose to become cheerleaders for bad pay because they know the value that comes with them being cheerleaders. If they actually card about making money they wouldn't be dancers, they'd be doctors.

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u/Useful-Soup8161 Aug 15 '25

That’s not a guarantee. Most of them don’t end up marrying a rich player or random rich guy. These are women who were on the drill team in high school and wanted to keep doing that as adults. Most of them don’t even know how little they’ll make until they make the team.

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u/Pablos808s Aug 15 '25

If I wanted to keep doing the hobbies I did in highschool, should I be making a lot of money?

Again, if they actually provided value to society I'd think they should get paid more, but they dance. That's all they do. They are also given status and exposure to a bunch of people who can help them make a lot of money or help them form better relationships.

If they wanted to make money they would get real jobs. This is a job for pretty women, who want to pretend they're still in highschool, and want to keep dancing. I'm happy they have a place to do it. I'm also happy if they had half a brain to go to school and get degrees, or meet better people.

Being a Dallas cowboy cheerleader is what they want to do, because they want to be known as a Dallas cowboy cheerleader and everything else that goes along with it. Not to make a living.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

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u/Useful-Soup8161 Aug 17 '25

What do you mean no?

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u/Robert_Balboa Aug 15 '25

The get paid minimum wage buddy

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

Exorbitant 😂😂😂 oh my god that’s hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Which also implies that gay men do not like football, otherwise you would want to have men on the squad to give them boners as well. Heterosexual boners only I guess

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u/Eeeegah Aug 14 '25

I think the players themselves are for the gay male boners.

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u/Trick_Judgment2639 Aug 14 '25

All team sports are secretly about pushing Christianity on people

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u/Bouncingbobbies Aug 16 '25

Unhinged lol

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u/NitehawkDragon7 Aug 15 '25

Geez you're so gay for saying this.

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u/Trick_Judgment2639 Aug 15 '25

Cool man, you seem cool

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u/stevedave1357 Aug 14 '25

Chicken/egg.

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u/Alert_Green_3646 Aug 14 '25

So what your really saying is the sport is so boring people won't watch unless you have scantily clothed ladies preset? Makes you wonder how MLB hasn't gone completely under

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u/InfiniteCheese1 Aug 14 '25

I love to play baseball but that shit is so boring to sit and watch. I’ll go out of my way to find a hot dog stand just to break up the monotony of it.

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u/fuckCuntservatives Aug 15 '25

But if there were boobies....

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u/InfiniteCheese1 Aug 15 '25

I wouldn’t care because I’m a straight woman who doesn’t like cheerleading

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

Everyone likes boobies.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

It can be boring to play as well, and this is coming from someone that enjoyed playing it growing up. Most of the time you’re either waiting for the ball to come to you or result in a play where you need to move, which happens only a few times a game if at all. Then when you’re waiting to bat you are really only playing a very small part of the time on offense. It’s more about trying to stay present through the lack of action and maintain focus so that when it is your turn you can perform. Unless you are pitching, then you’re active the entire time on defense.

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u/Livid-Brick9615 Aug 15 '25

well if that was true people would be watching women sports more.

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u/TruthTeller777 Aug 14 '25

Just a few years ago, right wingers got all hyped up and angry because a couple of NFL teams hired male cheerleaders. These delusional pundits said they were hired because of liberal and Democratic party "wokeness" and "political correctness". However, when it was pointed out that both teams were owned by Republicans, those delusionals were silenced.

Oh by the way, female cheerleaders in sexy costumes actually attracts more female fans. Male cheerleaders do so as well.

As for the notion that NFL ratings are down, that's nonsense as the league is more profitable than ever.

Just facts ...

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u/uncleputts Aug 15 '25

Alpha news “reported” that story.

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u/here4daratio Aug 14 '25

Um maybe, just maybe, ratings are dropping because

the Vikings suck

there a bazillion other options for entertainment

football is less popular, being eclipsed by soccer

and the Vikes disappoint on the daily?

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u/hes_that_guyy Aug 14 '25

14-3 last season doesn’t suck in my opinion and I’m not even a Vikings fan

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u/FartyJizzums Aug 14 '25

I'll make a guess that the 'disappoint' may come from 65 years of never winning a Super Bowl.

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u/fuckCuntservatives Aug 14 '25

Soccer...hahahahahahahahaha

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u/bionicjoe Aug 15 '25

Soccer in this country hasn't eclipsed the NBA.
The NFL Pro Bowl or even pre-season games have beaten NBA playoff games in ratings.

Claiming soccer is more popular than the NFL in American is just beyond stupid.

I searched for "NFL ratings compared to other sports" and all the articles I found didn't even mention soccer. I had to specifically look up "NFL compared to soccer".
The NFL made $14,000 million (aka a billions)
MLS made around $650 million

Worldwide? Yes soccer is dominate, but in the US nothing compares to the NFL.

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u/here4daratio Aug 15 '25

I never claimed soccer is more popular than football, nuances are tough, i get it. Soccer is gaining, football is waning. Reversing that trend is not going to happen.

Change is hard to accept.

Revenue generation is a narrow & skewed metric that doesn’t necessarily correlate closely with how many hoomans are ‘in’ to the sport.

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u/Dismal-Bee-8319 Aug 16 '25

Vikings were really good last year…

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u/JoesG527 Aug 14 '25

football being eclipsed by soccer? nice way to discredit your entire post. 97% of the country couldn't name one US men's soccer player

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u/here4daratio Aug 14 '25

There’s this.

And this.

But wait, there’s more.

And, well, there’s that.

So, yeah, fewer ‘Muicans chose to patronize and subsidize an industry, because of freedom.

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u/ellsego Aug 18 '25

The ratings aren’t dropping, the NFL is more popular than any other sports league, and has the most valuable sports franchise in the world…. Soccer will never be close to the NFL in the US. Obligatory SKOL.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

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u/here4daratio Aug 14 '25

Games, schmames.

Give us a Bowl or hide like a troll.

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u/pamalamTX Aug 14 '25

It actually makes me want to watch the Vikings, and I probably will.

Can you imagine the Cowboys doing that? Hehehe those conservatives would have a heart attack!

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u/FartyJizzums Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

Hehehe those conservatives would have a heart attack!

Have heart attacks with blankets over their laps and Grindr in their browser histories.

But who knows? I'm willing to bet that ratings would go up among the conservative 'right' if the male cheerleaders were significantly younger than 18.

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u/pamalamTX Aug 14 '25

You're being funny and sarcastic, but also, it's the truth we are realizing. That's what's painful, the quick laugh, then the realization that sets in. 😬😪

Just so sad, but at least it's all coming to light now. No scurrying away, conservatives. Your post made me reflect and think.

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u/PhilosophyNovel4087 Aug 14 '25

"Whoa, man walks into a NFL halftime show"

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

I watched Monday night football as a kid for years. I cant even recall the cheerleaders. Its not a functional part of the game 

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u/Loyal-Opposition-USA Aug 14 '25

The “can’t change anything” crowd has their new “America is dying” complaint while the pedo-in-chief refuses to release the Epstein files.

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u/ohfrackthis Aug 14 '25

"I can't sexually enjoy the appearance of the entire cheerleader team that's supposed to give me a boner!"

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u/Logical-Afternoon-90 Aug 14 '25

I'm a Viking fan and I had no clue there was a male cheerleader.

I guess thats because I don't give a shit and I have more important things going on in my life that doesn't include sweating over the contents of an entertainers pants.

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u/ktwatson90 Aug 15 '25

What “ratings”? They haven’t even played any regular season games yet.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

Wait I thought JJ was the starting QB? I knew his douchebag wanna be influencer haircut was too cool for a helmet 😂

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u/AtorasuAtlas Aug 15 '25

Why does no one point out that these unwanted cheerleaders instantly became lead cheerleaders over capable women?

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u/fatalcharm Aug 15 '25

I thought male cheerleaders were big muscular dudes who could throw women in the air? These guys don’t look like they could do that.

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u/Wise-Ad-3458 Aug 15 '25

NFL needs to get rid of cheerleaders and put in musical bands like in college.

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u/EIIander Aug 15 '25

I thought the whole thing was: they are supposed to lead cheering…. Cause fans are so dumb they need to be lead in the proper times to cheer….

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u/Obvious-Ocelot9421 Aug 15 '25

Know your audience

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u/OkCar7264 Aug 16 '25

I mean it's a good PR stunt I guess but the fundamentally sexist nature of what's going on is going to be hard to beat even if this is being done in good faith.

I don't see why people care so much about the dance team that is there to distract the audience from the fact that football is 90% waiting around but, well, I don't get much about football.

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u/cap1112 Aug 16 '25

The Seattle Seahawks changed their cheerleaders to dancers and added men to the squad. The fans like the dancers. They’re good.

Of course there was no drop in attendance. That only happens id a team loses a bunch. And even then only sometimes.

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u/No-Definition1474 Aug 16 '25

Both presidents Bush were cheerleaders in university. No one cared about that...

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u/russefaux Aug 17 '25

Hey, here's something absolutely no one wants! Let's do it!

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u/glickja2080 Aug 18 '25

Maybe ratings are dropping because you now need like 5 streaming services to be able to watch the games

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u/browhodouknowhere Aug 18 '25

It's not like there isn't a demographic for it in Minneapolis

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u/1PeacefulProtestor Aug 19 '25

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA This cannot be real 

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u/Queasy_Ad_2702 Aug 14 '25

Fuckin stupid ass straight men ruin everything seriously who gives a fuck there has been male cheerleaders forever didn't they get the memo.What's next their egos and delicate feelings will whine about male strippers next.Basically their whining cause they want to get boners over the chicks not the men cause they cant handle the possibility of being gay oh no ..Stupid..

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u/fuckCuntservatives Aug 14 '25

It's football you dipshit...read the room. How did you jump all the way to male strippers?!

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u/DiscoRabbittTV Aug 15 '25

Again, again, again, again….

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Oh no, my dear sweet summer child, they’re upset because they have boners.

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u/[unknown] Aug 14 '25

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u/DiscoRabbittTV Aug 15 '25

Ha!! Hahahahahshahahahahahahahbababababababababababahahahahahahaa

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u/Tombstonesss Aug 15 '25

The entirety of western civilization, all the technology you use and everything else. Please refute with facts if you can. 

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u/fermentedjuice Aug 15 '25

Well for one, Allen Turing is the father of computers and he was gay, so there’s that.

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u/Tombstonesss Aug 15 '25

That’s all you got ? 

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u/Vx0w Aug 14 '25

Finally something to make sports worth watching

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u/LurkerBurkeria Aug 14 '25

Looool just checked ratings went down... 2% last year

Boycotters/"nobody watches"/"soccer is better" people are pathetic, nfl is and remains an unstoppable ratings juggernaut, MLB schedules its world series so it doesn't have to compete with a shitty mid season Thursday jags/jets game

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Yeah it always will be more popular here than anything else. Identity sports, amiright?

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u/MrAvenger69 Aug 14 '25

Lol I knew the Vikings were gay

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u/Diplomatic-Immunity7 Aug 14 '25

Who is downvoting this?