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“We were never engaged in it,” said Kelly McGonagill Finglass, Cowboys Cheerleader in 1980 and director since 1991.
But Super Bowl XLV itself is an unusual accident in related worlds of football and cheerleading. In a state known for Friday Night Lights and fans to Dallas Cowboys, where Lawrence Herkimer practically invented the modern fan (and made a pompon patent), there will be fans in the biggest football game of all.
Packers and Steelers two of the six NFL teams without the professional support group teams. game on Sunday is believed to be the first time in more than 40 years that neither team fans will be on the sidelines of Super Bowl.
It will probably be first and last time that no fans will be on the sideline at a football match at the stadium Cowboys, too, if not anywhere else in Texas.
This is the place where he has often said that parents want their boys have become the defenders and their daughters to become fans. This fan-less Super Bowl is played in Texas, the home fans Dallas Cowboys, considered here as the ultimate irony.
“In Texas, if you have players on the field, and you do not have cheerleaders on the sidelines?” Denise Martin, founder of the Texas Cheerleader magazine, asked rhetorically. “Where is football in Texas, there are the fans.”
Not this time.
Both the Packers and Steelers were cheerleading squads in the past. Packers, in fact, say that they have the NFL, first, in 1931. But the franchise now believe that modern professional cheerleaders – dance squads, really – not a good fit for their team or their markets.
New York Giants, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns also have professional teams fan.
They all stand in sharp contrast with the Dallas Cowboys and their famous fans, arrived on the Internet for the franchise (the team will not show numbers), thanks to sales, appearance fees and millions of clicks that bring fans to the web site team. It is almost impossible to imagine without the Cowboys fans.
“We have too much company together,” said Finglass.
Doing without the fans, however, Steelers and Packers to send a message hush about how they see themselves and want to see more.
Packers dismantled the last professional team to cheer and dance in 1988, after a fan poll found strong opposition and indifference. Team came to see the dancers as absurd to focus on football franchise history, from the founder Curly Lambeau coach Vince Lombardi and beyond.
Over the past 20 years, were the fans at Lambeau Field – co-ed squads drawn from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the nearby St. Norbert College. Packers do not invite them to the Super Bowl.
“We think our tribute to the tradition and the collective feel the game is likely to add to our brand value – for the opposite reason, having the fans can add to that of the cowboys,” said Jason Wied, vice president of Green Bay for the administration.
Dressed in a Packers regalia, cheerleading megaphones men rise and wave the flags of the giant. Women wear the traditional sweaters and skirts. They start chanting, build pyramids and hold signs as they do for their college teams in the other days of the week.
“Most of the other teams more dancers, not cheerleaders,” said Ann Rodrian, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay cheerleading coach whose team worked the Packers’ home games for 20 years. “They usually do not show us, because my girls all my clothes.”
Steelerettes welcomed in Pittsburgh from 1961 to 1969. They were the women from Robert Morris College (now Robert Morris University) brought to help combat franchise sell tickets and attract attention.
“We knew from the beginning that the chief did not want us on the field,” said Dianne Feazell Rossini Steelerette, referring to the late founder of the Steelers Art Rooney. “Mr. Rooney was not crazy about him, but he seems to tolerate it for a while.”
She remembers a game against the Bears at Forbes Field after the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy. Given the gloomy mood, Steelerettes asked to sit on the sideline, rather than joy. To combat the cold, Rooney ordered that they be given a Steelers jacket, Rossini said. She currently resides in Pittsburgh museum, with its uniform Steelerettes.
Steelers make little mention of Steelerettes. The team this week declined to discuss the reasons for not having the fans.
“It’s just an organizational decision,” team representative Dave Lockett wrote in an email.
But it was at least 40 years, however, since the Super Bowl was played without fans. Accurate game is difficult to determine because of the NFL and the Pro Football Hall of Fame is no record of that cheerleading squads accompanied the team in various Super Bowls.
But one man chronicles the game like no other. Steve Sabol is the president of NFL Films, founded in 1964 by his father, Ed. (Ed Sabol was a finalist in this year’s Hall of Fame, whose 2011 class will be announced on Saturday.) Steve Sabol was appointed in the film out of action on the sideline in the first Super Bowl in January 1967, between Green Bay and Kansas City.
“I do not remember ever seeing the Packers fans or fans of the leaders on the sidelines,” Sabol said. “That’s not to say they were not there, but it was my job to shoot something like that. And I’ve never seen before.”
Sabol vaguely reminiscent of fans at Super Bowl II between Green Bay and Oakland, possibly from the Raiders or the local team from Miami, where the game was done, not affiliated with one of the teams.
“Super Bowl III, between the jets and the colts, I know the Colts have been alerted,” Sabol said. And as Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings on their Super Bowl IV, “he said. Every Super Bowl has been at least once a team ever since.
This band will end on Sunday.
“This is strange on this site should not be cheerleaders,” Sabol said. “Because the Dallas fans the most famous fans in the NFL”
Their studio Cowboys “headquarters is about 100 feet long and 40 feet wide, with a hardwood floor and mirrors lining both sides. Another wall has a life-size posters of the fans, in their familiar shape of cowboy boots, short white shorts, blue blouse and neck vests with fringe.
A large banner hanging as a sort of credo of fans, “” The promise to look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true, “one reads the making. Scale is at the door. Allied office filled with posters of fans in bikini shots used for the popular calendar group.
On Thursday afternoon, 15 fans of the team “show group”, an elite part of the 34-member team practiced the program with the troupe of hip-hop. They will perform together at a party on Saturday night at House of Blues.
On Sunday, Dallas Cowboys fans will make several appearances outside the stadium Cowboys, performing for fans and sponsors before the game.
But inside their homes, something unusual is happening. Gaumont side Super Bowl will not include fans.
In Texas, of all places.
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