The Man In Black is a New England Patriots fan. So, when I heard on the grapevine that some of their cheerleaders were on a short promotional tour over here, I thought I should let him know. He urged me to come along too. So I humoured him. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.I'm not sure how the girls got to be despatched over here when their team are in the middle of the play-offs (and chasing the Dolphins' unique record of a "perfect season"). We speculated that perhaps it was a discipinary measure, a reprimand for unseemly 'party' antics. Ah, fantasy.... No, alas, they were overwhelmingly wholesome and impeccably well-behaved.
After a couple of hours I quit to go and rendezvous with a couple of my Beijing lady friends, who are, I think, really far more attractive (and they don't read this blog, so I'm not just sucking up!). Perfection is overrated, I say. I mean, you could get snowblind looking at those smiles for too long. These are girls who have clearly never known the dirty pleasures of coffee & cigarettes. Or of alcohol either, probably. Their beauty is somehow rather artificial and antiseptic.
Of course, that's not to say I won't be checking out a phone number or two the next time I'm in Boston......
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great week
In case you're interested, the lovely ladies are, from left to right, Sandra Smyly (and what a great cheerleader name that is - alliterative and self-descriptive!), Quinn Kingston, Molly Lang, and Dinna Yap.
I think Molly was my favourite. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the name Molly.
It will be a thing of true beauty when the cheating bastard Patriots fall in the Superbowl to the wholesome, pure, and righteous Packers.
I don't get the "cheating" reference, Cowboy. Maybe that's just vitriolic hypberbole because they're not your team?
I suffer confused loyalties here. Not being American and never having watched a complete season of gridiron football, I can't really claim to be a fan. However, I do like the game; always try to follow the play-offs, at least, if I can; enjoy the SuperBowl as an excuse for a 4hr drinking session. And in general, for most of the last 20 years, the Packers have been the team for which I have felt most sympathy.
But, you know, I'm not a Minnesota boy, and.... the Patriots are a good team too.... and Molly flirted with me the other night.....
Maybe they'll both crash out unexpectedly this weekend and I'll be spared the dilemma.....
The cheating reference is to the game in week 1 vs the Jets. The Patriots were caught video taping the signals of the opposing coaching team, which is expressly forbidden by the League. The coach of the Pats received the highest penalty ever (for coaches) in the league, and the team forfeits its first round draft pick next season.
The Packers hail from Wisconsin, land of healthy, milk fed girls, cheese, and God. The Minnesota team are the Viqueens, who are an abomination against all that is good and righteous.
In reading back in your blog, in the thread that led to the What makes a Great Bar thread, you promised a post about Hogans.
I see you are a big stinky liar, presumably with flaming pantaloons.
TBC, Froog's pantaloons are very much flaming.
Froog, I have no reason to call you a liar liar pants on fire, except that I got a giggle out of TBC's comment.
Yeah, yeah, I know - Minnesota, Wisconsin.... easily confused in my alcohol-fuddled brain. All part of Canada's basement, yah?
I had entirely missed that story about the video naughtiness.... although you do kind of suspect that everyone does it all the time, and the Pats just got clumsy getting caught at it.
I shall root for the Packers out of loyalty to you - and for the joy of antagonizing The Man In Black.
The Hogan's post is "gestating". Patience. It hasn't been 9 months yet.
I had hoped that The Chairman would join us at the event, but he overlooked my messages about it. He was somewhat rueful at missing out, and quizzed me by SMS as to what it had been like.
I replied (equally ruefully):
"I thought I was over 22-yr-olds. But maybe you never get over them."
Also, if you think that all cheerleaders are wholesome and virginal, please google Carolina Panthers Cheerleaders Restroom.
Re the cheating...
Yes everyone does it all the time, but the Pats had shopped someone else for doing it, and it appears they did it to a much greater extent than others.
Also, the league has just announced this year that players caught cheating would not be eligible for awards - the result of last year when Sean Merriman of the Chargers was suspended for steroid use, yet still played well enough in the other games to make the Pro Bowl. It was a tad off, then, when the Pat's coach got awarded coach of the year this season...
Oh, yes, those Panthers' girls - that is naughty. Bit of a one-off incident, though. And quite some time ago. And the allegation of lewd behaviour in the bathroom did seem to be a tenuous rumour (although, if it opened up a whole new career for them in 'adult' modelling, maybe they're not too bothered).
And it seems they had already been sacked from the cheerleading squad quite some time before. So the the stigma of wholesomeness (I never said 'virginal' - that was your fantasy, Cowboy) still clings to the profession as a whole.
Did you remember that story from the time? Or do you regularly Google for 'lesbian+cheerleaders+bathroom'??
I am willing to bet that less than 10% of American males between the ages of 12 and 92 do not remember that story.
Interestingly enough, the mighty Packers are one of the few NFL teams without their own cheerleaders. For home games they borrow girls from the various campuses of the University of Wisconsin.
Well, you're really going for the top of the range in that percentage, Cowboy. Gays, deaf, blind, people with poor memories, members of weird religious sects that don't allow television or acknowledge the erotic appeal of lesbianism.... I think that's got to add up to more than 10%. We can never verify this - but if we could, I think I'd take the bet.
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