And then it all came back to me. Such a sweet girl, that Jessie. Nice in a completely non-annoying way. She looks all intimidating in this photo. Soooo not her personality. I think she was all of 18 when she made the team. Then she was with the Charger Grls for a season After a season off to focus on school, Jessie got itch to get out there again. She had a little over a year before graduating from college, and decided she wanted to experience dance team at the college level.
So she auditioned for, and was selected to the world famous Song Girls from the University of Southern California. She was on that team last year Jane, Jim, Jessie, Jamie, and Jodie. However, it was not for the Clippers and the Chargers. Jane was a Northern California girl, so her experience centered around that area.
A year later, she became a Golden State Warrior Girl. She performed with that team for two years before spending a year with the San Francisco 49ers Gold Rush. A couple years later, little Jessie was born, and the rest is history. They have 40 instructors, and over students. They teach hundreds of classes each week. You better believe it. But back in the day, it was glam all the way.
I have so many questions for Jane about what it was like back then, but if I sit down to figure them all out, this post will go on the shelf yet again. Sidebar: if you know of any sisters, cousins, moms and daughters, to add to the list. Let me know at sasha at procheerleaderblog. Week 1: Bucs, Chargers, 49ers, Titans, and Falcons. Week 2: Eagles, Saints, Ravens, and Patriots. Another season of NFL football is here with the arrival of week one of the preseason. This is usually where I rant about the absurdity of the NFL charging full price for some crappy football or I complain about being hassled by the security staff aggressively enforcing some new ridiculous NFL policy regarding what a fan can or can not bring in.
And if you have read my prior articles , preseason football has not been kind to me of late. I guess the stadium management has to get into mid season form just like the players do and they must use preseason games to train their new minimum wage earning staff. This year the NFL instituted a new clear plastic bag rule, which I was all set to complain about, but the Chargers sent us complimentary bags and they were okay for bringing in the usual stuff…you know all the miscellaneous photographic equipment that I need to get some great photos of the Charger Girls.
If they were serious about improving public safety at these events, they would banish the sale of alcoholic beverages. This being the second week of training camp, you could expect that the football being played was both mediocre and meaningless, and it was. Oh well, all was not lost. This is preseason for me too and I was trying out some new photographic equipment.
As you can imagine, a night game is quite a challenge to shoot, particularly from the seating area. The lighting is terrible.
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In the film, she described how nervous she was walking into the photo shoot, where she was offered a glass of wine to calm her nerves. Despite the fact that the teams themselves invited Playboy to recruit women for the magazine, the former cheerleaders in the film say there were no team officials present at the photo shoots.
As the film details, the Chargers fired the entire squad before the Playboy issue published. The firing came directly from assistant general manager Paul "Tank" Younger. And I couldn't understand: If it was wrong, why didn't he stop it?
Said film director Summer: "Their biggest response was, 'We don't understand why this happened. We thought we were following the rules. According to Summer, at the time, there weren't explicit rules prohibiting the Chargettes from posing for Playboy. The Cowboys, however, did have such rules, as shown in "Daughters of the Sexual Revolution. In , former Indianapolis Colts cheerleader Malori Wampler sued the team for discrimination after photos emerged of her appearing at a Playboy event in a painted-on swimsuit, which took place before she joined the Colts.
In March, a former New Orleans Saints cheerleader filed a gender discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the team and the league based on the Saintsations' eight-page booklet of rules, saying that they enforced a double standard by requiring different behavior from the women on the squad than the men on the team. For its part, "Sidelined" isn't just a film about the seeming hypocrisy in the way NFL teams use women's sexuality to sell the game -- it's also about sisterhood.
Those who come to the film with preconceived notions about cheerleaders might change their tune after hearing some of these women describe why they joined their squads in the first place.
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