Don’t forget the Real Cheerleaders/dancers/models!

Discussion in 'Real Salt Lake' started by Arelius, Nov 16, 2004.

  1. blitzzfc

    blitzzfc New Member

    Nov 9, 2004
    Salt Lake City
    No, through the annals of time, cheerleaders have been known to provide a boost to teams who may be struggling. Ask them whether or not their presence cheapens the game. :confused:
     
  2. blitzzfc

    blitzzfc New Member

    Nov 9, 2004
    Salt Lake City
    Re: pix, let them think that. Then, when a bottle is smacked upside somebody's head, they'll know it's untrue. :D
     
  3. blitzzfc

    blitzzfc New Member

    Nov 9, 2004
    Salt Lake City
     
  4. 79United

    79United Member

    Apr 10, 2000
    SW DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Turkey's done!

    TS.
     
  5. prk166

    prk166 BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 8, 2000
    Med City
    Just to be clear, I don't think teams need cheerleaders. But never underestimate the subliminal power of a few scantly clad women can have on young men. The game can be boring, they can lose a leg or both and still leave with a smirk on their face and want to come back again and not quite know why.
     
  6. MiamiAce

    MiamiAce New Member

    Jan 12, 2004
    Miami, USA
    I'm glad to read that so far, most people in this thread agree that cheerleaders are not needed in MLS. As much as I love women, I too recognize we don't need to subvert the league or sport just to give it a bit more attention. Besides, that's the beauty of our MLS, it's not trying to imitate the other big leagues.

    I just hope next we won't be debating on whether DJs playing popular music should be installed to "hype the crowds" like they do in the NBA and NFL.
     
  7. prk166

    prk166 BigSoccer Supporter

    Aug 8, 2000
    Med City
    Oh, I don't know about that... ;)
     
  8. dasoccerplayafosho

    Jun 30, 2003
    Utah USA
    hopefully a springville person that goes to church and goes to church (with a dream of playing for BYU) won't have his message disregaurded.

    This is the dumbest thing that I've ever heard of. We are already forced to play on sloppy seconds to american football fields, using the yellow lines instead of the white ones, we don't need "pointy footballs" bouncy, giggly, fake smiliey accessories. I would much rather have the entire stadium singing after kreis scores than the sad entertainment of a bouncy pyramid of giggling flesh. Cheerleaders will destroy a lot of the pride that i have in being a soccer player, especially coming from a high school in which a cheerleader is a fake wanna-be popularity stunt, and they are just as likely to cheer "sack that quarterback" when their team has the ball, because they don't care. they just want to walk around in "scantilyi clad" clothing, and have dreams of dating the quarterback, who after they meat they hate because he is the biggest moron and jerk that they have ever met.
    Cheerleaders/dancers/models are a NO in my book
     
  9. Czar Pazzo

    Czar Pazzo Member

    Jul 25, 2003
    The Darjeeling Ltd
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Just as long as they don't play that @#$%@ song they play at the USA games after goals. The longer the USSF plays that songs at US games, the more likely I am to start cheering for our opponents.

    Ok not really, but I REALLY HATE THAT SONG.

    And I vote no for jock rock too. Sorry I did in fact discuss it.
     
  10. Bryan Gividen

    Bryan Gividen New Member

    Mar 8, 2003
    Provo, UT (BYU)
    Alright, so MoTab aside, what should be played on the speakers?

    Maybe Queen? Nat King Cole? Prince?
     
  11. sokol

    sokol Member

    Aug 4, 2004
    If the neighbors get their way, nothing will be coming out of those speakers. The neighbors around Rice-Eccles have started complaining about UofU football games being too loud, particularly the speakers. And they've made enough complaints that some kind of action is being made. If they are strong enough to get their way against Ute football, they're gonna easily get their way with RSL. But would that be a bad thing if RSL were forced to not play loud obnoxious music at odd points in the game?
     
  12. dasoccerplayafosho

    Jun 30, 2003
    Utah USA
    so what, they expect a stadium of 45 thousand to be quiet? I can hear people chearing for the HS football games and I"m a 2 minute drive to my HS stadium (seating a whole lot less than 45 thousand)
     
  13. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    Not at all. In fact, you folks would be the envy of many.
     
  14. sokol

    sokol Member

    Aug 4, 2004
    It's not the cheering, it's the music over the loudspeakers. I agree they are being ridiculous because even when you're at the stadium it's not unbearably loud. Maybe people who live by fire stations should get a coalition together and say "no sirens by my house!"
     
  15. Deuce

    Deuce Member

    Nov 16, 2004
    Utah
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    What did they expect when they bought houses next to a huge football stadium...?
    Even if some of them had houses there before the stadium was built they would have to be really old and have bad hearing. So the complaints must be from all the people that bought houses after the stadium was built... there can only be one other plausible explaination, and that is the people complaining must be disgruntled fans of that "team down south". In that case, they are just being bad sports .... nothin' new there, of course :D
     
  16. fordfjord

    fordfjord Member

    Mar 4, 2004
    Houston, Texas
    Club:
    Corinthians Sao Paulo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Really. The only music heard at a soccer game should be pseudo-drunken fan renditions of popular tunes, not the popular tunes themselves.
     
  17. Jim Umber

    Jim Umber New Member

    Sep 6, 2004
    I don't know, you make it sound rather intriquing ;) ...but no, there is no place for cheer leaders, etc. in soccer. Like the Jock Rock some have mentioned, it is only distracting in a sport that goes on continuously without built in breaks. :eek: Besides, it conflicts with and overpowers what the supporter section is doing. But part of the solution for that is to get more supporters joining in with us. :D
     
  18. theblondsoccerstar

    theblondsoccerstar New Member

    Nov 12, 2004
    UT, USA
    The last thing I want is cheerleaders waving fistfulls of pom poms in faces at a MLS game. Geez, thats why soccer is soccer and NOT american football.
     
  19. Lizzie Bee

    Lizzie Bee Member+

    Jul 27, 2004
    Utah
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think most people are ignoring the obvious: the supporter's section people ARE the cheerleaders in soccer. Or maybe someone mentioned that. The posts above were implying it, anyway.

    I understand that male hormones are less energized by a bunch of middle-aged, balding men (and big pregnant ladies) waving banners around than by.. umm.. the other alternative. But we're trying to energize the TEAM, not the audience, if you really think about it, and the supporter's group can fulfill that responsibility fine!

    (P.S. No, of course I'm not implying that any of the Loyalists fit the category of "balding, middle-aged men." It just seemed to apply to.... ummm.... OTHER supporter's groups. Our group is all young, handsome, etc.) :rolleyes:

    (Now taking the foot out of the mouth... Love ya' all, Loyalists!)
     
  20. Scottt1115

    Scottt1115 Member

    Sep 14, 2003
    SLC, UT
    I agree that there isn't really a need for cheerleaders during the game. As was said before, there really isn't time for people to be watching them. Regardless of each individual's opinions of cheerleaders and dancers, the common denominator is that to have an affect, they need to be seen. With the nonstop nature of soccer, they won't be, at least not by the fans actually watching the game.

    Now if they want to have a dance group come out and dance at halftime. By all means do it. In fact, do anything that will keep my interest during halftime! If that is dancers, so be it. If it involves pulling the drunkest guy in the stadium onto the field to run windsprints with our bench warmers, so be it. Halftime is a time when I don't have a problem with the...what was it...the "bouncing pyramid of giggling flesh"?

    I feel though that I should say that I don't think cheerleaders or dancers "cheapen the game". In fact my girlfriend, who is a dancer and has auditioned for sports team's dance groups, would be somewhat surprised and insulted to hear this. She went to school and studied, harder than most us would think, to learn a lot about her field. She considers what she does a talent to be shared with others, and she is in no way an airheaded bubbly idiot as dancers/cheerleaders are implied to be by SOME of the people on this board. There is a difference between those adolescent girls in HS trying to snake their way into a jockstrap and those that go on in their lives and choose to pursue a career in this field. I just think that should be clarified.

    Thanks for your time.
     
  21. Czar Pazzo

    Czar Pazzo Member

    Jul 25, 2003
    The Darjeeling Ltd
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Yeah it's a tough line to tread when talking about cheerleaders. I have a close friend who is a cheerleader too so I have a hard time reconciling the fact that I hate having cheerleaders at games. I don't hate the girls themselves... But I can't help but not enjoy their presence at baseball or soccer games. I still think it cheapens the game because it's a gimmick to get people there instead of the sport itself being the attraction. Again, I have a hard time with this because I know and like a UVSC cheerleader.

    There is a separation though. I can be anti-war and still love our troops (same concept). Many people have a hard time with that one too.
     
  22. Jim Umber

    Jim Umber New Member

    Sep 6, 2004


    Okay, boys, now that the girlfriends aren't looking...What do you really think?
     

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