You caption the photo

[Belanger, Roger]

Hi Kim,

Assuming your question was directed at me.

Privately, with family & friends I have expressed my opposition and
dismay at the perky ones patrolling the sidelines the last couple of
years. You've probably noticed I don't post messages that often.
However, I really couldn't pass up the opportunity to spew some venom
when presented with the chance to "caption" the photo.

Maybe it's because I have three daughters, and for the most part, I'm
old fashioned (old school as the kids would say). I just know it rubs me
the wrong way. I am no prude by any definition. When I am watching
sports, I want to watch sports. If titillation is the choice for
entertainment, men generally know where to go for that. So anyhow,
probably doesn't make sense to anyone else, but it's just how I feel.
(BTW feel the same about the Laker Girls and the Cowboy Cheerleaders,
but they're not MY teams)

Thanks for the chat, have a good weekend,

roger



-----Original Message-----
From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
Behalf Of Kim Malo
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:35 PM
To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
Subject: RE: You caption the photo

At 10:30 AM 10/13/2006, Belanger, Roger wrote:
>Hi Fred,
>
>Thx for your note and I appreciate & respect your thoughts. I was only 
>trying to vent my frustration at the whole dance squad idea using my 
>admittedly cruel sense of humor.
>
>The reality is that the C's and the women are using s3x to put arses in

>the seats. The entertainment should be quality played hoops. Parading 
>half naked women around to take attention away from an inferior product

>is offensive to me as a fan.
>
>As for the "dancers", there are plenty of other places that they earn 
>their money jiggling their exposed body parts. It is neither 
>appropriate or necessary at the C's game (or any other sporting event 
>for that
>matter) IMHO. Hey I'm human, if there is bumping, grinding and flesh 
>flashing going on, I'll be looking, just don't like them pretending it 
>has anything to do with the games.
>
>Anyhow, looking forward to seeing some more on court action real soon.
>Me and my crude sense of humor will be returning to lurkerville now. 
>:-)

Curiosity question - have you shown similar outrage over the ones
defining the word perky they've had on the sidelines waving their bared
midriffs in the faces of the courtside seats at every opportunity the
past few years, but just refused to call cheerleaders (even though
that's what they really were)? About the only differences I see are that
the old group wasn't chosen quite so much for their chest size (extra
weight/equilibrium shifters causing problems with some of those high
tosses in the air probably), they included some guys to help them with
the lifts (albeit the dorkiest looking ones they could find - clearly
only one group was chosen for
looks) and the Cs never publicized them quite as much away from the
games. In part because they probably expected this sort of outrage from
some of the fandom. And when they didn't get it, or it quickly
dissipated, that's likely part of why they felt it was OK to go ahead
with the real dance team and be more public about it. None of this "game
presentation" stuff amuses me much, as I've told them each year they
sent me a season ticket holder questionnaire about stuff like that.
Strangely they didn't send me one this summer, after announcing the
cheerleaders....

Kim 


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