{"id":71766,"date":"2025-08-16T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71766\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:20:07","slug":"minnesota-vikings-male-cheerleaders-cause-nfl-fan-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/71766\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Vikings&#8217; Male Cheerleaders Cause NFL Fan Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Quit Your Week-Day Job<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are always ready for some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">football<\/a>, but the gig of a lifetime is also not the main event as far as income goes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espnw\/voices\/story\/_\/id\/19454957\/why-nfl-nba-cheerleaders-barely-earning-minimum-wage?irclickid=zUn3m6wI3xyKRuRQfvyZt2xEUkC2ocTvt03tU40&amp;irgwc=1&amp;ex_cid=DSS-Affiliate-Impact--Hearst+Magazines-531511&amp;cid=DSS-Affiliate-Impact--Hearst+Magazines-531511&amp;tgclid=0901003c-341d-4464-9200-1f9a66a323b9&amp;dclid=CjgKEAjw74e1BhCVmqai9_6MrxwSJAAzF1YnzWMi42NPHLlhlNb5YHn4K7z8BFxcafZHbn44FdWhj_D_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ESPN reported<\/a> in 2017 that NFL team cheerleaders made roughly $75 to $150 per game, an eye-opening moment for fans who assumed those glamorous performers were making bank. Or at least a living wage.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in the first season of America&#8217;s Sweethearts, DCC alum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1409158\/dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-kelcey-wetterberg-beauty-hack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kelcey Wetterberg<\/a> is a pediatric registered nurse, while then-newcomer Reece Allman\u00a0(n\u00e9e Weaver), who returned for the 2024 season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@reece_christinee\/video\/7395324114375855403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">worked at a Dallas florist<\/a> to supplement her earnings from cheerleading.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/2024\/06\/28\/on-the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-and-the-risks-and-rewards-of-being-that-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>, cheerleader pay has since risen to closer to $400 per game, plus hourly wages for all the time spent\u00a0preparing\u00a0for games and making appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Still, DCC alum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/katpurr\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kat Puryear<\/a> said on the Netflix show, &#8220;I would say I&#8217;m making, like, a substitute teacher [salary]&#8230;I would say I&#8217;m making, like, Chick-fil-A worker that works full-time&#8221; money.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Quit Your Week-Day Job The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are always ready for some football, but the gig&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-71766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}