Let’s be real. Sunday night’s Super Bowl game was a total snooze fest. Many predicted the outcome, and after the grueling quarters, the New England Patriots (as expected) came out as the victors. Although the Los Angeles Rams didn’t win, they still proved to be winners. You may ask, “Why?” Because after 99 years of the NFL, there were finally male cheerleaders who performed during the Super Bowl game!
Napoleon Jinnies and Quinton Peron are the names of the two deserving men who performed for the Los Angeles Rams this year. History was already made at the beginning of the season when they became the first male cheerleaders in the NFL alongside Jesse Hernandez of the New Orleans Saints.
There have been men in the past who performed for NFL teams, but they were described as “stuntmen” and didn’t perform the same moves as the female cheerleaders. Jinnies and Peron are the first to dance alongside female cheerleaders throughout the season as well the Super Bowl.
So with that, times are changing, and barriers continue to be broken. We’ll just have to see what’s next! Maybe one day we will have merged teams of men and women on popular platforms such as football!