And usually failing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Alright, you try to get your fat ass up there and do half of what cheerleads do. Its fucking hard.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I care about your opinion.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

??

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You mean you DONT care...right? Geez...did you take fucking happy pills? I thought you fucking hated me..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, I honestly care about your opinion. Say more of them

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If cheer leading is a sport, George Bush was a decent president. Did I just throw in more debate than this post will already receive? Perhaps.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

George Bush was a dumbass. This takes way more skill, planning, effort and practice than football or baseball. Could you do it? Nope. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHvkuVUBKBQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92N-CCrqJXM&feature=related

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Absolutely untrue

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What cheerleaders do is hard, so it must be a sport. Going by this philosophy, other sports include: Being the president, staying up for 72 hours, jumping over a house, flying a plane, and juggling 8 balls.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Amen.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

CALM THE FUCK DOWN.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the definition of "sport" isn't "its hard"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not saying it's easy, but nothing where you are either judged by someone who could be impartial or competing against nobody and just standing on the sidelines of a sport should be considered a sport.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I guess you've never heard of competitive cheerleading where they have competitions all over the fucking country. Lemme see you do fucking flips after someone throws you in the air without breaking your neck. I'm interested in how skilled you obviously are.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sounds pretty fucking crazy, fuck.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you would have made a better point if you didn't use the word "fuck" every other word

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wow... Cheerleaders have short tempers. And I would just like to say, competitive cheerleading isn't just trying to motivate a crowd. I assume OP is talking about what happens most of the time at football games. Don't overreact so much.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Of course cheerleaders have short tempers. They're used to getting whatever they want because they're the most popular people in the school.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Way to stereotype. One of the nicest people I know is a cheerleader. I'm a huge nerd, and my friends were all pushing me to try out (and I would have made the team had I had enough time). Most of the cheerleaders I know are actually incredibly nice.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you are refering to me. Ya, I have a short temper. But really? Do I look like a fucking cheerleader to you?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Why do you think EVERYTHING is referring to you?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, when you, homosexaulpumpkins, or thatonenut i involved, it usally is...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm sorry, but that's just not true. I agree with everyone here that cheerleading isn't a valid sport, but I'm a cheerleader and my friends (on cheer) and I are not popular. Of course there are the girls on the team that get whatever they wantand act like brats and we don't particularly like them, but a lot of girls on the team are just average high school students that aren't slutty hoes and spoiled princesses.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nothing is a sport unless you're competing against someone else. Competitive cheerleadimg is a sport, but regular sideline of a football game is not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Lol, you could make about any sport sound like not a sport this way. They're actually jumping about and doing routines to music, which is practically dancing, while they're also doing jumps like gymnasts. Except this time they're not doing this for an audience but for the reason mentioned in the post. Does this make it not a sport? American Football is just tackling guys while wearing big shoulder pads and hugging a deformed-looking ball. Swimming is just moving your arms and legs in water to impersonate some sort of fish. NASCAR is... well I don't even need an example for this one. Volleyball is just beating a poor little ball so it stays in the air the majority of the time. Wrestling is just two guys hugging violently on the floor (for the majority of the time).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Colorguard... -.-

by Anonymous 12 years ago

NOW THERE"S A SPORT.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Kay so everyone needs to chill. If you're standing in front of a crowd spitting out peppy rhymes and dancing around, no, that is not a sport. But once you put a girl in the air, then shit gets real.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I always hear this especially from guys. $:< What makes cheerleading a sport? A ball? Well, wrestling doesn't have a ball. Sweat? Cheerleaders sweat a lot during there intense practices. & the practices or the audience? Well, we have that. Cheerleaders practice 2 hours a day, 4 days a week 4 weeks a month and 12 months a year. & the audiences often have more people then there are at a ball game. Flyers have to have great flexibility and strength, and bases have to have good strength to lift fliers and throw them ore then 15 feet in the air. We can tumble, jump, scream, cheer, motion, and more. We have to have great strength to tumble. Like backhand springs or a back tucks. If you can't do a backbend kickover, or even just a backbend, good luck doing a handspring. People say a sport needs people competing for something. For cheerleading, you compete for points for yourself. But at competitions there could be 20 teams competing for one thing which is to win.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

cool story

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thanks y0. Want me to continue? I'd love to.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport By definition, it is a sport.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you're a huge idiot. That completely disproves it as a sport. How can a winner be defined by objective means? Tell me that! I hope you read this and realize how much of a fail you're entire argument was...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

By objective means? In competition cheerleading the objective is scoring above your competition. There is a score. That is the objective, to score points. Objective objective objective.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

An objective is a goal of some sort. There has to be a clear way of knowing when someone has gained points.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're right, an objective is a goal. The goal(objective) is to score points. Which makes it a physical competition. Which makes it a sport.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Go ahead and ignore what I just said.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My apologies. You said there has to be a clear way of knowing when someone has gained points? That is actually untrue. It doesn't matter if the points gained are clear to onlookers or not, as long as it is a physical competition somehow, it is a sport.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

...but the scoring isn't objective. In soccer, whoever gets the most goals wins. In cheerleading, scoring is based on objective things (technical skills), but also on choreography and showmanship (http://www.championscupseries.com/cheer/ch_crit.html). That must be somewhat subjective.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I just read that, and the scoring doesn't seem to be subjective. Where did it say that the judge scored the team off of their own personal views? The scoring seems pretty much based off of numbers than personal preference. I might be wrong though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They factor appearance into scores. It's definitely personal preference. My sister is a competitive cheerleader and after every competition she says something about how everyone was shocked with the team's scores.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Based on that link, and I've done a bit of research regarding cheerleading rules, I think it's safe to say that there are a set list of rules in cheerleading competitions. This is the same with diving, gymnastics, and figure skating, which are all Olympic sports. So, a review, the standards for a sport are: Organized: check. Competitive: check. Entertaining: check. Skillful Activity: check. Commitment: check. Strategy: check. Fair Play: check. (By Objective Means) A Winner: check. I think I've more than made my point. If this doesn't convince you cheerleading is a sport, nothing will.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

tl;dr

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Basically it says technically cheerleading is a sport.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not even a cheerleader. Also I like saying fuck. Sue me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Agreed... there's no doubt in my mind that cheerleading is hard, and I give cheerleaders a lot of credit. But the fact that it requires a lot of skill and hard work doesn't make it a sport. Gymnastics is a sport, but cheerleading is not, in my opinion, a sport.

by Anonymous 12 years ago