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October 09, 2008

Cheerleader Censorship

Posted by Derek

I noticed an unusual referral in my web stats today, so I clicked through and found this interesting story:

The cheerleader squad for the Philadelphia Eagles exercises and practices in my neighborhood gym. The other day a lawyer came in and took a few of them aside. I overhead her instruct them to delete their Facebook and MySpace profiles immediately, explaining that membership in online social networks is a breach of contract... 

The last thing I heard her say is, “If you feel these profiles are important for your modeling career or personal life, then keep them — but then you will relinquish your position on the squad.”

First of all, that's excellent gym selection.

Secondly, how typically heavy-handed is this of the Eagles / NFL?  Rather than just saying the team expects the cheerleaders to project a wholesome image and will remove those who don't, they send in the lawyers to shut down their access to social networking sites that pretty much the entirety of the under-35 population in this country uses.  Because it sure would be terrible if those cheerleaders were out there sticking up basically-naked pictures of themselves

Is this even a calendar?  You can barely see the dates.  (On the left, dude.)

I don't know about you, but those pictures just scream "WHOLESOME" to me. 

Almost makes you want to google around a bit to find what the team was so intent on you not seeing...

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