Posted on 08/18/2018 10:39:27 AM PDT by libh8er
After spending about $100 on lower-bowl tickets and driving 2½ hours from the Lafayette area, Tracey Hernandez was nervous as she took her seat near midfield of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Friday night.
It wasn’t the preseason game the Saints were about to play against Arizona that worried her — the dance instructor hardly watches football. What mattered to her was how her son, Jesse, would fare in his debut as the first-ever male member of the Saintsations, New Orleans’ NFL dance team.
The crowd in the stadium was the biggest Jesse had performed in front of since his dancing career began 23 years ago, at the age of 2.
The teasing and taunts he braved when he became the first boy to perform on the dance team at North Vermilion High School in his hometown of Maurice still stung Tracey.
But she calmed herself by reciting Jesse’s achievements up to this point — the competitions he’s won, the instructor gigs, his stint coaching the dance team for a minor-league hockey franchise in Lafayette that she herself once danced for.
She remembered how countless people had come up to her after word broke that Jesse had made the Saintsations and told her, “We are proud of him; we support him; give him our congratulations” — even burly men visiting the Harley-Davidson motorcycle shop where she works.
While she admitted being annoyed at online commenters who in recent weeks had insulted her son’s masculinity for becoming a Saintsation, she brushed them aside as kickoff time approached.
“Those people just need to get over it,” said Tracey Hernandez, who attended Friday’s game with three family friends, one of whom had an oversized, cutout picture of her son’s face.
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LSU already does this....this big chubby tinker bell at half time
I was at the gator bowl last year watching LSU whoop some swamp critters and man it was so damn hot....low 90s and sticky
And out prances this chubby cake boy with the drill team.....I thought I was heat hallucinating
I was smothered in gator coeds since I was on the end front row fifty yard line
Poor me right...
Man was it hot
They did the Petty tribute....very emotional....the whole crows sang along
That is f***ing pitiful.
Pass.
My Medical Career as a Surgeon started when I was twelve years old and my Parent’s bought me the Board Game “Operation”.
I gave up my Medical Career ambitions and went into Banking after I started playing Monopoly.
Yes, I realize it was to create “awareness” of a horrible disease.
But, let’s get real. Do they really think there’s a lack of “awareness” out there when it comes to cancer?
Oh, yeah, that’ll bring the lost NFL audiences back. Add more.
How many features will ESPN and even the NFL Network have on this “trailblazer”. Wanna bet he knows nothing about football!
Rush was right about football as he is about most things. The NFL is one of the last vestiges of "maleness" in this country and the Left has long targeted it for destruction. First they encouraged anti Americanism within the ranks and now they were inserting the gay agenda. Enough to drive a huge chunk of fans away.
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Where’s the mini skirt?
Yippy....
The first tranny cheerleader isn’t too far behind! The NFL is a total joke now. They let leftist politics into their domain and now they’re a freaking mess! I love the game of football, but all this crap is making me a bigger baseball fan!
Well he knows how to catch.
no one wants to see that! i guess his mom does. and is he really a gay- or just a dumb kid?
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Guess that team was really (raised to the zillionth power) desperate.
One of the other reasons that the NFL is dead to me.
actually i agree with you. Pink/cancer, blue/autism, i forgot what green was for.... but everybody in the US is aware of these diseases, and playing around with ribbons ect is not going to make them find a cure any faster.
Ditto
I would love to symbolically shut off the NFL
but I already did that several years ago.
As they continue to drift further left I feel as if I should do something ... but when you already don’t watch them, don’t follow them, and don’t give a sh@t about them, there’s not much action available.
Jesse..."I know that rookies start out as tight ends and after awhile they become wide receivers...giggles, how fabulous is that?....more giggles"
That picture should be in the dictionary under ‘twink’.
Sad. The only joy that I am going to get from this sad state of affairs is teasing some of my friends who are rabid football fans and asking “What are they really watching it for, the play, the players, the cheerleaders, or the gay dancers?”
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