Has it really been 32 years since the Honey Bears last danced? |
McCaskey was the woman whose action right after her Bears actually managed to win a Super Bowl (remember 1986?) was to abolish the Honey Bears.
THAT
WAS THE dance team that existed from the mid-1970s until the end of the 1985
season. The Honey Bears’ last performance literally was in New Orleans at the
Superdome while the Bears beat up on New England 46-10.
In
doing away with the Honey Bears, she made comments about how she found the
whole image of hot pants-clad dancers jiggling their curves about to be inappropriate,
and how the Bears would never again have such a dance team so long as she
remained a part of the team’s management.
Some
three decades later, McCaskey remains with us. At 95, who’s to say what will
happen.
Now
I know some people act as though the lack of an official dance team to
entertain the fans (and appease their libido) is somehow a disgrace. I’ve heard
some try to claim that the Bears are cursed because of the demise of the Honey
Bears – and that (rather than lack of athletic talent) is the reason the Bears
are now 32 years, and counting, without another Super Bowl championship.
BUT
COULD VIRGINIA have been on to something in thinking that the old-timers like
her father who created professional football would never have saw the need for
something like the leerleaders (that’s what they really are) whom many teams feel
compelled to have?
If
anything, it was just a matter of time before someone got caught up in the
Redskins’ circumstances.
For
those who haven’t paid attention, the New York Times reported about how the Redskins
basically used their dance squad in ways that hardly differ from those exotic
dancers who work in those seedy nightclubs.
It
seems that during a 2013 trip to Costa Rica, the dancers posed topless during a
photo shoot for a calendar, and it seems the team offered certain male fans the
perk of being present.
THE
LADIES ALSO were required to be escorts at a nightclub – serving as “dates” for
certain men. An act that bears some similarity to what professional escorts do –
and what can get them in trouble with police who consider it one step up from
prostitution.
You’d
think that Washington would feel some desire to maintain a low profile, what
with all the stink they arouse from the fact that they insist on keeping the
team nickname “Redskins.”
Now,
they’re the team that pimps out its dancers.
Which
can’t help but make one wonder if “da Bears” are spared much grief by being one
of the few professional football teams (including such other ‘old school’ teams
like the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants) to do without the sideline
routines.
-30-
No comments:
Post a Comment