NFL bans cheerleaders from distracting players from opposing teams
On Friday’s episode of the podcast PFW In Progress Fred Kirsch reported that the National Football League sent out a memo on Thursday that in strict terms prohibit teams from having their cheerleaders warm up and stretch outside the visiting team locker room.
The tactic is “distracting and inappropriate and to be stopped immediately and teams will be monitored” according to Kirsch (I think he was more or less quoting the memo). Patriots Football Weekly scribe Tom Casale instantly recalled an anecdote about former Patriots wide receiver David Givens telling him how Redskins cheerleaders had been stretching in front of him and distracted him to the point where he couldn’t concentrate on what he was supposed to do last time Patriots played Washington down there. Patriots lost.
Kirsch denied that Patriots use their cheerleaders in that fashion.
Speaking of New England Patriots cheerleaders…
