shame on the nfl


they need to pay these girls. $150 a game ridiculous
they say I have spent my life savings to do this. that is just wrong

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For the girls it's mainly about the experience and not the money. I might be wrong but I don't think it's the NFL's decision on how much to pay the girls. Even though they cheer for the team, the Dallas Cowboys and the DCC are two different businesses. Plus it's not like they are going in blindly as far as spending their life savings to do it. They know the weekly pay isn't much but the experience is.

"I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't"

Kacey Musgraves "Pageant Material"

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Experience for what??
This is an interesting article
https://m.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/4056wb/judge_rules_that_nfl_cheerleaders_are_employees/

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Mainly experience as in it's a once in a lifetime opportunity especially being a DCC since they are the most popular pro cheerleading squad, the only one that even comes close to DCC in popularity is the Lakers Girls and they aren't even half as popular. Plus it does look really good on a resume to say you were a pro cheerleader. There are a lot of professional dancers and singers who once worked as professional cheerleaders. And appearing in the calendar will get your name and face out there for modeling contracts. Like I said before they know how much they are going to get walking into it so if they spend their life savings to do it then that's on them.

"I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't"

Kacey Musgraves "Pageant Material"

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I totally see where you are coming from I am sure they get amazing opportunities from this. However I do believe they are employees of the NFL and if they paid the men players this way and said but your getting all this experience and you'll walk away with this great resume and you'll be on a calendar.... This would never happen and they are only treated this way because they are women. Sadly
The NFL is run by very misogynistic men : (

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I'm not sure if it's a sexist thing but I don't think anyone is going to be paid nearly as much as the players, except the owners of course. But yeah they should be paid more, not the millions the players get but at least more than $150 a week.

"I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't"

Kacey Musgraves "Pageant Material"

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It's long been stated that it's extremely deliberate to keep the cheerleaders of all teams a separate entity to the teams exactly to keep them low paid. if they were a part of the team proper they'd have to be given a proper wage and so the cheerleaders are a separate entitiy so they can pay them a pittance. Its' estimated the cheerleaders can bring in upwards of 5 million dollars a year, and yet get paid 100-150 bucks and thats only for the game. they get nothing for TC, nothing for the near nightly rehearsals. it's all contrived to ensure they don't have to be paid. it's digusting

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