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Because the pros are and always have been a watered down money grab of a sport compared to the pagentry and history of gridiron football's true roots at the college and amatuer level.

Cheerleading of the type you're talking about where they do big tricks is unsurprisingly quite dangerous. Often more dangerous than the sport that they're cheering for.

I suspect that there is an aspect of financial liability involved in the decision.

The women on the NFL cheerleader squads usually do a few choreographed dance routines that don’t often get shown on TV (it’s usually during a commercial break) but I haven’t seen them do much of the more acrobatic feats you typically see at the college games. If this were something new I’d assume it was for liability reasons because it’s not worth budgeting as much for potential injuries the way they do for the football players, but it seems like it’s always been that way at the NFL and I doubt that was much of a concern in the ’50s or ’60s. Most teams also don’t have marching bands or even spirit bands either, so maybe it really is mostly cost-cutting.

I think the Packers usually have male cheerleaders, but that is likely because they don't have any professional cheerleaders and instead invite cheer squads from local colleges to cheer at home games.

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Au contraire! I’m a hetero guy that hung out with my GF + 20 other chicks. I’d say it was a brilliant move for an 18 y/o.

200 IQ move

A guy I knew in highschool did that with the cheerleading squad specifically to meet girls. I thought it was quite the big brain move. What susses me out now is that same dude now runs a cheerleading camp. I should hope his motivation has changed over time.

An 18yo comfortably breaking gender norms, your single life never had a chance.

Color guard GF was the best back in high school!

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