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Friday, April 25, 2008

[vinnomot] Cheerleaders Strike Indigenous India with Mind control Terror

Cheerleaders Strike Indigenous India with Mind control Terror

 

Palash Biswas

 

George Bush and Ronald Reagan have been the Most Successful Cheerleaders. And the success rate never trailed behind War Game Politics of US Weapon Industry Imperialist Manusmriti Apartheid Post Modern Galaxy Order Success! Cheerleaders successful team heritage is traced from Darling Madonna, Hellie Berry, Mariel Streep to Washington Red Sklin of IPL, the money spinning neo revolution of Indian Brahminical Ruling Class.

 

Cheerleaders may also be traced amongst all our Comrador Politicians of different colors who are also involved with XXX Cricket Carnival with a solid Agenda of Brain Washing to destroy the Disadvantaged Indigenous in this divided bleeding sub continent.

 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday met the Left leaders to discuss the price rise crisis and said that the government was taking all necessary steps to deal with the problem and that there was no need for political parties to indulge in scare-mongering.

 

Asking the political parties to avoid the temptation of politicising the misery of the people, Singh warned them against creating an environment of scarcity that would encourage speculators and hoarders.

 

Left as well as the Right belong to the Ruling Hegemony. Though UPA runs the government of India which controls the basic tool of mass destruction, the State Power. GOI is responsible to the Parliament, elected by Majoritorian Electoral system depriving the indigenous untouchable and tribal, rural and agrarian people the much wanted Political representation! Human and civil Rights nullified. nationalities massacred. Indigenous production system destroyed. The flow of Refugee Influx from Inside as well as Outside never stops as it helps the ruling Hegemony to consolidate the favourable vote bank with clubbing minorities and demographic readjustment. They call it power sharing. In fact the Parliamentary Political Power in this so called democracy is shared by ruling and resistant powergroups and Common Men have no participation in the affairs of Nation.Neo Liberal economic policy has made this divided Subcontinent a cluster of Colonies managed by MNCs. Nation withers away and so called Civil society with full fledged purchasing power takes over.

 

All this nonsense goes on the name of Public Interest, Development, Infrastructure, Growth Rate, Welfare State and Revolution , too. Every time ultimate victims have to be the Indigenous People consisting of Eighty Five percent Untouchables, Tribals, OBC and minorities specially Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Anglo Indians plus converted christians!

 

This is the story of Sensex Shining India governed by the three percent caste Hindus politically, socially, culturally, economically and finally, administratively. Any resistance whatsoever is crushed mercilessly. This is the story of all development projects and shemes, foreign relations and collabrations, strategic regrouping, joint venture, SEZ drive, dual citizensship, Chemical Hubs, Nuclear power Plants, modified genetic Seeds, vaccination, privatization, disinvestment, CRS, VRS, Retail chain and so on. The stories climax in Telengana, Dhimri Block, Shrikakulam, NaxalBari, Nandigram, Kaling Nagar, marichjhanpi or anywhere else with the same result and it is Massacre! Genocide Infinite.

 

It is always reciprocal. Centre is run by UPA. States are governed by NDA or Left as well as UPA and UNPA. They defend the interstes of the Ruling Caste Hindu Hegemony collectively and the system of Enslavement continues.

 

They promote technology and English to disarm the disadvantaged unskilled indigenous agarrian communities and reserve all opportunities for the ruling Class.  Constitutional resrvatin is a farce as Privatisation and neolibral policies have closed all doors of Employment. since the Indigenous production system is killed and also they killed the Constitution and Democracy as well, Indigenous People have no way of sustenance.. Now the family Planning happens to be irrelevant as so many people die starving daily. Medical care  and all types of social services are thus privatised and you need reasonable purchasing power to sustain yourself!

 

They never promote knowledge, mother language, indigenous culture, higher education , science and research. Trading is the only way to generate resources. Sales happne to be the only aveneue open for job besides outsourcing! Basic necessities are neglected. Coomodities as food and clothing, medicines and housing are so dearly that ordinary people may not survive. What about the displaced and ejected people from their roots, land, livelihood and life? 

 

Information Technology is the topmost priority as it is the best tool for Mind Control system. Total Brain Washing. Total annihilation. IT happens to be the best Weapon of Mass Detruction. The campaign is led by the Toilet Media, run by MNCs and fed by FDI. Information Explosion transormed into total brain washing.

 

Cricket Carnival happens to be the most entertaing part of the Mind control Game subverting all issues relating to the suffering Indigenous disadvantaged eighty five percnt people of this subcontinent.

 

So, the political parties happen to the best Knight riders of Modern Times accompanied by Cheerleaders! Politicians are never behind this XXX Reality Show Live.

 

What Nautanke is this?

 

A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday .

Ban said the U.N and all members of the international community are very concerned, and immediate action is needed.

He spoke to reporters at U.N. offices in Austria, where he was meeting with the nation's top leaders for talks on how the United Nations and European Union can forge closer ties.

"This steeply rising price of food — it has developed into a real global crisis," Ban said, adding that the World Food Program has made an urgent appeal for additional $755 million.

"The United Nations is very much concerned, as all other members of the international community," Ban said. "We must take immediate action in a concerted way all throughout the international community."

Ban urged leaders of the international community to sit down together on an "urgent basis" to discuss how to improve economic distribution systems and the production of agricultural products.

 

For an alliance that lost to the Congress because of its hype on 'India shining', the unprecedented price rise has come as godsent to expose the government's claim of being pro-aam admi  and keep the issue alive for electoral gains in coming polls, starting with Karnataka.

As a show of unity on the issue, the MPs of the BJP-led NDA formed a human chain around in Parliament complex as Leader of Opposition LK Advani said, "The family budgets of not only the poor but even the middle classes have been badly eroded by the steep rise in the prices of cereals, pulses, vegetables, edible oil, sugar, milk, fruits and meat."

He said, "If you can't stop price rise then you should quit and the country should go to polls. The government's failure is worse compounded by its apathy, insensitivity and lack of accountability."

Calling the inflation a 'silent tsunami', Advani joined other NDA members, including leaders like Rajnath Singh, George Fernandes and Manohar Joshi, in forming the chain.

"I relate that situation to the current one where the common man is being denied the right to food due to price rise. The NDA will continue its agitation against inflation throughout the country in different forms," Advani said. The NDA has already called for a general nationwide strike against inflation on May 2.

The issue figured in both Houses where the agitated Opposition raised slogans seeking to expose the UPA's "aam aadmi" plank. Later both the Houses were adjourned for two hours as proceedings were disrupted.

In the Lok Sabha, the NDA MPs trooped into the well of the House shouting slogans denouncing the government — as the Question Hour was drawing to close.

 

Left leaders on Friday sharply reacted to the Prime Minister's Office statement asking parties not to politicise the price rise issue and said the government should not be "callous" towards people's miseries.

"This equally applies to the PMO because, by saying this, they are themselves politicising the issue. Government must eschew the irresponsibility of being callous towards the hardships of the people," said CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury here.

The CPI(M) leader, who along with other Left leaders met the Prime Minister on the price rise issue, was reacting to the PMO statement asking political parties to eschew the temptation of politicising the misery of the people and not to indulge in "scare mongering".

It also warned against creating an environment of scarcity that would only help speculators and hoarders.

In the same vein, CPI leader D Raja said price rise was not a result of "politicisation but a harsh reality facing the people. The government should take steps to mitigate the people's problems."

Describing the PMO statement as "very unfortunate", Yechury asserted that it was the duty of political parties to raise people's issues.

"If it means not to raise people's issues, we cannot take such an irresponsible step being a political party", he said.

Yechury's party colleague Basudeb Acharia was also critical of the government's approach on the price situation, saying it was "dithering and was reluctant to take any action on the issue also."

Acharia said the PMO statement "proves that the government is not serious enough on the matter. Rather, it is not at all serious with regard to the plight of the people."

Accusing the government of not taking any effective steps to control the prices, he demanded immediate restoration of foodgrains to Kerala where the PDS allocation had been slashed by as much as 86 per cent.

The CPI(M) leader also lashed out at the BJP on grounds that most members of the prime opposition party were absent from Parliament when a discussion was being held on price rise.

"Even the Leader of the Opposition (L K Advani) was not present. He has no time to attend the House", he said.

Referring to the PMO statement which said agriculture sector was "neglected" since 1996, he said the sector had been neglected since the economic reforms began in 1991.

"In the past four years of the UPA government, they have not taken enough steps to increase production and capital formation", the CPI(M) leader said.

"Now the Prime Minister is only hoping that a good monsoon will increase production and the agrarian crisis will be overcome. So, without taking any action, this is the expectation of the government", he said.

Asked to comment on government announcement that it would take a sense of the House on the Indo-US nuclear deal, he said, "they have already witnessed the sense of the House. Majority of the members in both Houses are against the deal".

He said there is no need for taking the House into confidence once again on the matter as the sense of the House is absolutely clear.

 

With the largest indigenous population in the world, India has often done little to protect the rights of these groups that have worked and lived off of communally shared forest lands for thousands of years. The Supreme Court of India has touted Public Interest Litigation -- PIL, also sometimes called Social Action Litigation -- as an effective tool for protecting the rights of the disadvantaged, especially indigenous groups. While this litigation is the judicial equivalent of class action suits in the United States, there are important differences. The Indian Court specifically has focused on the fundamental rights to life and equality. Fundamental rights guaranteed to all Indian citizens include life and equality. The Supreme Court has interpreted these two rights to include the right to work and live with dignity and liberty. Procedurally, the Court's practice of PIL has relaxed the rules of 'standing.' It has effectively allowed persons or groups not personally involved in cases to bring suit on behalf of others, which makes for greater openness of the system.

 

Heere you are! a glimpse of Disadvantaged Indigenous India!

Three million indigenous rat-catching tribals in India suffer from poverty through use of an inefficient and hazardous traditional rat-catching method. New technology/plan is safer and more profitable!

 

There are about 300 million indigenous men, women and children worldwide. They are extremely diverse - more than 5,000 different groups of indigenous peoples live in more than 70 countries. They make up one third of the world's 900 million extremely poor rural people. In many countries, indigenous peoples are the most severely disadvantaged. They are often forced to live on the least productive terrain, denied rights to land, forests and other natural resources that they have managed sustainably for millennia, and marginalized by modern society.

 

Today, there is a growing consensus that accountability is crucial to poverty reduction, human development and human security. The human rights approach to poverty reduction emphasizes the obligations of governments and all partners in the development process and requires that they be held to account for their conduct in relation to international human rights. This has led to greater emphasis on the obligations of governments and UN agencies towards indigenous peoples.

 

And this?

 

Political parties must not politicise the misery of the people, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday after Left leaders met him to voice concern over rising food prices as inflation climbed from last week's 7.14 percent to 7.33 percent.

Manmohan Singh asked the delegation of Left leaders led by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) general secretary Prakash Karat not to create panic about food scarcity.

"Political parties must not politicise the misery of the people and indulge in scare mongering about food scarcity," said a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

"The government will take all steps to curb inflation. We expect normal monsoon to increase food output. Procurement of food grains is expected to go up," it added.

"Agriculture production was rising. It had gone down after 1996. The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government had taken several measures to step up production."

The Congress-led UPA has been hemmed in by criticism from all sides - its own allies as well as the opposition - for not being able to rein in rising food prices.

"We reiterated before the Prime Minister our demands to ban futures trading, slash duties on petroleum products, strengthen the public distribution system and punish hoarders," said Abani Roy, leader of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP).

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had on Thursday formed a human chain outside Parliament and accused the government of failing to bring down prices.

The Left parties last week addressed a public meeting with the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) here on rising prices.

 

 

Randeep Ramesh in Delhi reports for Guardian:

 

In boots and spangled shorts, the cheerleaders for India's premier cricket league have caused a furious debate over money and morality in a country where cricket is a religion and prudence a virtue.

Brought in to heighten the appeal of the new Twenty20 matches, the gyrating young cheerleaders have angered politicians, who say they are an affront to Indian culture, and some conservative players, who wonder why they are needed.

The cheerleaders have complained that lewd comments and ogling from spectators are proving at best a tiring distraction and at worst sexual harassment. "It's been horrendous," Tabitha, a cheerleader from Uzbekistan, told the Hindustan Times. "Wherever we go we do expect people to pass lewd, snide remarks but I'm shocked by the nature and magnitude of the comments people pass here."

There is little doubt of the stir that the cheerleaders have caused in the country where a Muslim female tennis star, Sania Mirza, was criticised for playing in short skirts and where actor Richard Gere caused a storm of protest by publicly kissing Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty.

Politicians in Mumbai have threatened to ban the cheerleaders from games, while teams have beefed up security.

"I think in the Indian context [cheerleaders] are seen as slightly sleazy which is not a reflection on the women but the perception [from Indian men]. So lewd comments, I am sorry to say, do not surprise me at all," said Mukul Kesavan, a cricket writer.

The Indian cricket league's success signals the country's new dominance, with top players earning £100,000 a week during the tournament.

Photos of dancing cheerleaders have made the front pages of Indian newspapers. Charu Sharma, chief executive of Bangalore Royal Challengers, defended importing American-style razzmatazz. "Let us not play this high-handed moral belief game. It is only small maverick groups that are making a noise," Sharma told Reuters.

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Cheerleaders will not be banned during IPL cricket matches in Mumbai but they may have to shed their skimpy outfits with the police on Friday warning of action against the organisers if their shows are found to be vulgar.

As the police cleared the air on whether the scantily-clad cheergirls will be allowed to perform in a Navi Mumbai stadium on April 27 by imposing some conditions, the 'ban cheerleaders' chant grew loud with West Bengal joining Maharashtra in targeting the dancing beauties.

Senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu also joined the chorus of protests saying the dance was a "distraction and nonsense" as a debate raged over whether US-style cheerleaders had a role during cricket matches in the country.

"The girls are merely artistes who perform as per the instructions of organisers," Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Ramrao Wagh said, adding that a performance license has been granted to the organisers of the match between Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers to be held at Nerul's D Y Patil stadium.

In the event of the cheerleaders indulging in obscenity, Wagh said, the "license holders" (the organisers) will be prosecuted under various provisions of the Bombay Police Act for indecency in a public place and breach of license terms.

Wagh said the show should not be vulgar or obscene nor offend the dignity of women. He however said there have been no instructions from the government.

West Bengal Sports Minister Subash Chakravarty said the cheerleaders had no role and were out of context during sporting encounters and there was no need to import Western culture. Chakravarty, who was supported by PWD Minister Kshiti Goswami(RSP and Water Investigation Minister Nandgopal Bhttacharya(CPI), said he will take up the issue with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.

In the midst of controversy over the presence of cheerleaders at IPL matches, police on Friday said they could perform at the stadium in Navi Mumbai on April 27 but action will be taken against organisers if their act is found to be "vulgar" or "indecent".

"The girls are merely artistes who perform as per the instructions of organisers," Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Ramrao Wagh said, adding that a performance license has been granted to the organisers of the match between Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers to be held at Nerul's D Y Patil stadium.

In the event of the cheerleaders indulging in obscenity, Wagh said, the "license holders" (the organisers) will be prosecuted under various provisions of the Bombay Police Act for indecency in a public place and breach of license terms.

Wagh, however said they had not received any directions from the state government on the issue yet.

Maharashtra's Minister of State for Home, Siddhram Mhetre had on Thursday told reporters that the government will not allow the cheerleaders to perform as their acts are "absolutely obscene" and wondered why the organisers required "semi nude" women at cricket matches.

The minister had said strict action will be taken if the cheerleaders violated the norms of decency in their attire.

However, he had not specified if action will be taken against the artistes or the organisers.

 

 

Redskins cheerleaders train local girls
Friday, 25 April , 2008, 12:29
Last Updated: Friday, 25 April , 2008, 17:19
 

Bangalore: The svelte Washington Redskins Cheerleaders, who have created more than a stir with their presence in the Indian Premier League (IPL), will leave behind a bunch of girls trained by them to set up a permanent presence here.

The first ever Pro Cheerleader audition in India got started two days after their arrival here April 13 to create the first ever cheerleading squad in the country for Bangalore Royal Challengers, for their inaugural game April 18.

IPL: Full coverage

The Washington Redskins cheerleaders, known as the "First Ladies of Football" in the United States, have a squad of 12 Cheerleaders and two choreographers in India. They were scheduled to spend 18 days travelling across India with the Royal Challengers owned by Vijay Mallya.

Though the squad will leave India, Entertainment and Cheerleading Director Donald Wells and two-year veteran Sharica will be here for three more weeks, according to the Redskins website.

Are IPL cheerleaders a needless distraction?

Wells will then hand over the new squad to Stephanie Jojokian, Director and Choreographer of the Redskins cheerleaders, in mid-May. She will spend 10 days with the Bangalore cheerleaders. By the time this project is complete, the Redskins Cheerleading department will have spent over 10 weeks creating a new cheerleading world in India.

 

India warns cricket cheerleaders

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7366516.stm

Cheerleaders at an IPL cricket match
Cheerleaders have been brought in from all over the world Pic: Sandipan Chatterjee/Indian Express

 

Indian police say the organisers of the new tournament transforming world cricket could be fined if cheerleaders are deemed to be dressed indecently.

The cheerleaders have been introduced into the Indian Premier League as part of moves to add glamour and entertainment to the game.

Some politicians say the cheerleaders are "vulgar and obscene".

Mumbai police say they will be checking that the cheerleaders' performances do not violate entertainment licences.

The cheerleading girls, wearing short skirts and low-cut tops, have been hired from around the world to perform during the matches which are also being heavily endorsed by leading Bollywood stars.

They include cheerleaders from the Washington Redskins.

'Lines of decency'

Ram Rao Vagh, the police commissioner for New Mumbai, a suburb of Mumbai, where the home team is hosting five matches starting on Sunday, told the BBC that they were not considering any action against the cheerleaders themselves.

Shah Rukh Khan
What's wrong with cheerleaders? I am also a family person, I do not see anything negative in it
Shah Rukh Khan

 

"It is difficult to enforce moral policing, we cannot define vulgarity always. It is difficult to ascertain what is vulgar and obscene," Mr Vagh said.

But he said the organisers could be fined for violating the norms of the entertainment licence they had secured for allowing performances in the stadium.

Senior officers would decide whether the cheerleaders had crossed the "lines of decency".

 

 

A spokesman for the local team, the Mumbai Indians, said they were not worried.

"Our cheerleaders are properly dressed. They are within limits of what our culture permits. So we have no problems," Javed Akhtar told the BBC.

'Routine'

 

However, the junior interior minister of western Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, said the performances of cheerleading girls at the Indian Premier League matches were "absolutely obscene".

 

Crowds at an IPL cricket match
Cheerleaders have complained of sections of the crowd jeering at them Pic: Sandipan Chatterjee/Indian Express

 

"We live in India where womanhood is worshipped. How can anything obscene like this be allowed?," Siddharam Mehetre told the Press Trust of India news agency.

"This thing is meant for foreigners and not for us. Mothers and daughters watch these matches on television. It does not look nice."

Many others find the indignation misplaced, coming from a city, which is home to a thriving industry of Bollywood films where dance sequences featuring women in skimpy dresses are routine.

Bollywood actor, Shah Rukh Khan, who also owns one of the teams in the competition, is one of them.

"What's wrong with cheerleaders? I am also a family person, I do not see anything negative in it," he said..

The head of India's National Commission for Women said there was nothing wrong with the cheerleaders if it "just for adding entertainment to the game"..

"It has to be presented in the right manner keeping Indian values intact," said Girija Vyas.

A former Bollywood actor and a politician belonging to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shatrughan Sinha said the cheerleaders were making a "mockery" of the game.

There have been reports in the Indian newspapers of cheerleaders complaining of sections of the crowd jeering at them and making lewd comments.

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Youth Cheerleaders during a football halftime show. Youth Cheer - high school ages and younger - make up the vast majority of cheerleaders and cheer teams.
Youth Cheerleaders during a football halftime show. Youth Cheer - high school ages and younger - make up the vast majority of cheerleaders and cheer teams.

Cheerleading is a sport[1][2][3][4] that uses organized routines made from elements of some tumbling, dance, jumps and stunting to direct the event's spectators to cheer on sports teams at games and matches and/or compete at cheerleading competitions. The athlete involved is called a cheerleader. With an estimated 1.5 million participants in allstar cheerleading (not including the millions more in high school, college or little league participants) in the United States alone, cheerleading is, according to Newsweek's Arian Campo-Flores, "the most quintessential of American sports."[1] The growing presentation of the sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On. Due in part to this recent exposure, there are now an estimated 100,000 participants scattered around the rest of the world in countries including Australia, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan,[5] the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. [1]

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History

Minnesota Gopher cheerleader Johnny Campbell
Minnesota Gopher cheerleader Johnny Campbell

Cheerleading first appeared in the United States in the late 1880s with the crowd chanting as a way to encourage school spirit at athletic events. The first organized, recorded cheer was yelled "Ray, Ray, Ray! TIGER, TIGER, SIS, SIS, SIS! BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! Aaaaah! PRINCETON, PRINCETON, PRINCETON!" at Princeton University in 1884.[6] A few years later, Princeton graduate, Thomas Peebles introduced the idea of organized crowd cheering at football games to the University of Minnesota. However, it was not until 1898 that University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd in cheering "Rah, Rah, Rah! Sku-u-mar, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!", making Campbell the very first cheerleader and November 2, 1898 the official birth date of organized cheerleading. Soon after, the University of Minnesota organized a "yell leader" squad of 6 male students, who still use Campbell's original cheer today[6] In 1903 the first cheerleading fraternity, Gamma Sigma was founded..[7] Cheerleading started out as an all-male activity, but females began participating in 1923, due to limited availability of female collegiate sports. At this time, gymnastics, tumbling, and megaphones were incorporated into popular cheers.[7] Today it is estimated that 97% of cheerleading participants are female, but males still makeup 50% of collegiate cheering squads. [8]

Cornell University cheerleader on a 1906 postcard
Cornell University cheerleader on a 1906 postcard

In 1948, Lawrence "Herkie" Herkimer, of Dallas, TX and a former cheerleader at Southern Methodist University formed the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) as a way to hold cheerleading clinics. In 1949, The NCA held its first clinic in Huntsville, TX with 52 girls in attendance.[8] "Herkie" contributed many "firsts" to the sport including the founding of Cheerleader & Danz Team uniform supply company, inventing the herkie, (where one leg is bent towards the ground and the other is out to the side as high as it will stretch in the toe touch position)[9] and creating the "Spirit Stick".[7] By the 1960s, college cheerleaders began hosting workshops across the nation, teaching fundamental cheer skills to eager high school age girls. In 1965, Fred Gastoff invented the vinyl pom-pon and it was introduced into competitions by the International Cheerleading Foundation (now the World Cheerleading Association or WCA). Organized cheerleading competitions began to pop up with the first ranking of the "Top Ten College Cheerleading Squads" and "Cheerleader All America" awards given out by the International Cheerleading Foundation in 1967. In 1978, America was introduced to competitive cheerleading by the first broadcast of Collegiate Cheerleading Championships on CBS[6][7]

In the 1960's National Football League (NFL) teams began to organize professional cheerleading teams. The Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis Colts) was the first NFL team to have an organized cheerleading squad.[10] It was the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders who gained the spotlight with their revealing outfits and sophisticated dance moves, which debuted in the 1972-1973 season, but were first seen widely in Super Bowl X (1976). This caused the image of cheerleaders to permanently change, with many other NFL teams emulating them. Most of the professional teams' cheerleading squads would more accurately be described as dance teams by today's standards; as they rarely, if ever, actively encourage crowd noise or perform modern cheerleading moves.

Cheerleaders warming up for competition
Cheerleaders warming up for competition

The 1980s saw the onset of modern cheerleading with more difficult stunt sequences and gymnastics being incorporated into routines. ESPN first broadcasted the National High School Cheerleading Competition nationwide in 1983. Cheerleading organizations such as the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors (AACCA) started applying universal safety standards to decrease the number of injuries and prevent dangerous stunts, pyramids and tumbling passes from being included in routines. [11] In 2003, the National Council for Spirit Safety and Education (NCSSE) was formed to offer safety training for youth, school, all star and college coaches. The NCAA requires college cheer coaches to successfully complete a nationally recognized safety-training program. The NCSSE or AACCA certification programs are both recognized by the NCAA.

Today, cheerleading is most closely associated with American football and basketball. Sports such as soccer, ice hockey, volleyball, baseball, and wrestling sometimes sponsor cheerleading squads. The ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2007 was the first international cricket event to have cheerleaders. The Florida Marlins were the first Major League Baseball team to have cheerleaders. Debuting in 2003, the "Marlin Mermaids" gained national exposure and have influenced other MLB teams to develop their own cheer/dance squads



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