<p>^Not a sport and you hate 95% of the people you do it with…or whatever you do.</p>
<p>^ I may be fervidly opposed to the bratty, slutty demeanor of a vast majority of the wretched monsters that I have had to endure during my tenure as a cheerleader, but my love for the sport itself will always prevail.</p>
<p>Cheerleading is not a sport.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure we’ve had this argument before.</p>
<p>C-O-Y-O-T-E-S, At 0-10, our football team isn’t the best.
I can do what you do Leila…:]</p>
<p>I say hillshire, you say farm!
Hillshire! Farm!</p>
<p>GO MEAT! lol i like that commercial :)</p>
<p>cheerleading is what it is, you lead cheers-not very sportish
im not saying that its bad, it just isnt an actual sport</p>
<p>You could make an argument for competitive cheerleading being a sport. But regular cheerleading? No way.</p>
<p>^ I agree with Harvey</p>
<p>I agree the the sideline cheers aren’t all that impressive. However, the competitive side of cheerleading, which is quickly garnering more well-deserved attention, is a sport if I ever did see one. It coalesces athletic elements of tumbling, stunting, and jumping with dancing, cheering, and high-energy performance, all within a 2:30 time frame.</p>
<p>Random, but I have always wondered where the word “varsity” came from.</p>
<p>^If your varsity is good enough, it gets to travel to faraway cities to compete. Far city.</p>
<p>Cheerleading is not a sport. You are basically just there for guys to look at. It’s funny that the only people who think cheerleading is a sport are cheerleaders, and even then, some of the smart ones (wait, there are smart cheerleaders?) say it’s not a sport.</p>
<p>I golf and sail (recreationally, no team at school).</p>
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<p>My 1600 time doesn’t even fall in the top 10. That’s just how we do here.</p>
<p>are you gonna run in college pioneerjones?</p>
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<p>I don’t know yet. I don’t think my times are quite good enough for the schools I’m looking at, since they’re all DI. As junior who’s barely broken 4:40 once, I don’t stand much of a chance. If it helps me get into a school (HPYSM, Ivy League, etc.) then I might.</p>
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<p>This is honestly one of the most ignorant statements I’ve ever read regarding cheerleading. You are just feeding off dated stereotypes, most of which have grown obsolete by now.</p>
<p>Are you talking about my “such thing as a smart cheerleader” comment? I was joking about that (See: MIT cheerleading squad), but that would be the general stereotype. Hell, many of the cheerleaders I know are dumbasses and sluts, so that’s where the stereotype holds true for me.</p>
<p>Seriously though - nobody supports your argument except fellow cheerleaders. If an umpire calls a runner safe, but ONLY the fielding team and its fans think the runner was out, does their opinion mean the was runner was, indeed, out? No, of course not. You are just biased because you don’t want the rest of the world to look down on you.</p>
<p>cheerleading is not a sport. they just stand and clap and vote on which gets to sleep with the quarterback that night.</p>
<p>that was so cruel, my b</p>
<p>Honestly, I thought cheerleading was not a sport, either. Yet, that is the complete opposite it is a lot of hard work! Everyday we ran 2 miles, then did 90 pushups, 90 crunches, 90 leg lefts, did 30 jumps (I mean toe touches, etc) THEN you have to hold up a 90+ lb girl for about 5 minutes (a total of about an hour!). Yes, what you see does not appear to be that hard, but it is! It was a lot of work and I got in good shape from cheer. I also got my middle split from all the stretching you do (which I also got from guard too). So yes, cheerleading is definitely a sport but I did not enjoy it… It was too preppy and a lot of drama.</p>