They are athletes, full stop. Cheerleading is a highly skilled sport that requires grace, strength and skill.

Eric Smallwood, senior vice president at Front Row Marketing, has estimated that the TV appearances of cheerleaders on game days alone are worth about $8.25 million to the NFL, or $317,000 per year for each team in the league. Cheerleaders also provide value by promoting ticket sales and promoting the NFL brand.

Well, *of course*! And they shouldn’t expect food share, Medicaid, child care assistance or any of that! They should have kept an aspirin between their knees!

Some of the contracts they sign forbid them from dating the players.

It’s really not. Cheerleading is a highly gymnastic sport with an injury rate far higher than football.

The Cowboys pull a mil+ from their cheerleaders, thanks to endorsements, merch and appearance fees.

If I’m not mistaken, I believe that NFL/NBA cheerleaders are forbidden from dating team members, so they would lose their (already paltry-paid) job for trying that strategy.

I guess they’re supposed to get pregnant and count on child support.

“Waft over” economics. You still don’t get the money, but you can smell it if the wind is blowing in the right direction.

So the cheerleaders, who are also professional athletes, are supposed to make ends meet via ... what, exactly? Fucking the team and hopefully getting a few bills shoved their way in return? How nice and open-minded of these conservative fucksticks to show their support for prostitution.

wait so this editorial board works near some of the richest people in the country in the OC so does this mean that they also can be paid $0.50/hour

This is why whenever I need to get some food, I just go to the supermarket and hang out by the checkout. I get to be in close proximity to people who have food, which is the same as having it, yourself.

Hell, it’s not even trickle down economics anymore. Apparently, you’re supposed to just be happy to be in the physical vicinity of that kind of money.

What. The. Fuck. Tony Spears.

The Academy is out of touch in every aspect that matters. This year is bound to be another disappointment. The best movies I saw this year were ones with zero chance of getting an award. Goddammit, Mad Max: Fury Road deserves all the awards. Is it too late to give the Star Wars The Force Awakens cast nominations? More…

The African Americans who’ve won Oscars, and the role they played.

Hattie McDaniel - a slave

Well the first step is to support more diversity for writers who aren’t white to right about characters who aren’t white.

Isn’t she the reason Nick Jonas’s music suddenly got interesting and he got re-famous?

This has PR written all over it. To reinforce Tebow’s righteousness.

just realized i’ve had more sex than tim tebow and feel newly desirable and adult