This week, SI.com is featuring Christine Conley, Cheerleader, UGA as their Cheerleader of the Week. The problem I have is not so much that Christine comes off as a bit, well, stereotypical. It’s just that SI.com actually creates this “content.” And that’s a bit creepy considering that the large majority of college football fans are probably quite a bit older than Christine Conley, and a feature about the young lass allowing old, creepy guys to get to know her better seems a little off. Sure, we tend to obsess over 18-22 year old male football players 24/7/365, and we might happen to know that Brady Quinn shaves his entire body a lot about them, but that’s all because of a perfectly healthy love of sports and competition. A totally rational love-affair with the chess-match that is a college football game.
A few highlights from Christine’s profile:
3. Movies I can’t live without: Finding Nemo and Steel Magnolias – Me neither, Christine. I just love that animated little cowboy and his toy-spaceman buddy. And Jet Li is awesome in Steel Magnolias.
6. One misconception about cheerleaders: We are smart! The average GPA for my squad is a 3.04. – Wow! That’s like Einstein or something!
10. Strange and unusual fact about me: I love mayonnaise! I will eat it on anything. – I have no joke here. I love mayo too. I just wanted to point it out to our readers thatmy love of mayo sandwichesappreciation for mayo as a condimenton hotdogsis quite normal.
12. If I had more time, I would … Spend it with my family. Living 2½ hours away from them, I don’t get to see my parents and sisters very often. – TWO AND A HALF HOURS! GOLLY GEE! THAT’S, LIKE, A 150 MILES AWAY! OH GOSH!
14. Five people I’d like to have dinner with (living or dead): My grandfather who died when I was 8, Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Simpson, President Bush, and Kenny Chesney. – Christine, I’m sure your grandfather was quite nice, but if you ever put those other 4 people together at a table, it would create a vacuum-effect like a black-hole and swallow up the whole universe. And as I’m sure you’re aware, the universe is really, really important and big.
17. Every woman should have … A hair tie around her wrist. – That’s right. Because you never know when you’ll need to pull your hair out of your face for, um… an impromptu cheer!
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haha. cheerleaders are dum. hahaha.
If I weren’t dead, the conversation at that dinner table would have killed me.