{"id":865459,"date":"2026-08-20T22:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865459\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:08:36","slug":"a-look-back-on-decades-of-alouettes-cheerleading-after-team-overhauls-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865459\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back on decades of Alouettes cheerleading after team overhauls program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new group of cheerleaders is entertaining fans on the sidelines of Alouettes games this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After decades of sourcing the in-game performers through an in-house program, the CFL franchise dropped their dance team, replacing it with the stunt cheer team from the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n

Without necessarily questioning the Carabins cheer team’s abilities, some question whether this move does justice to the legacy of the club\u2019s cheer teams that goes back decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was the baton-tossing Majorettes of the 50s, through the pompom-shaking era of the 60s and 70s, to the sporty knee-high sock laden power ballad era of the 80s, continuing through the calendar girls era of the mid-90s and 2000s, right up to modern day.<\/p>\n

In a way, the Alouettes cheerleaders, their style, how they were perceived \u2014 whether they got paid \u2014 all reflected the societal attitudes of Montreal at the time.<\/p>\n

So is this latest change the end to a longtime tradition? Or is it just another step in the evolution?\u00a0<\/p>\n

WATCH | The legacy of Alouettes cheerleading:\"\"<\/p>\n

Loss of legacy or cheer evolution? A look back on Alouettes cheerleading as team overhauls program<\/p>\n

For decades, the Montreal Alouettes have had an in-house dance team perform at their home games. Now, the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al Carabins stunt cheer squad is taking over that role. Some question whether this move does justice to the history of the CFL team\u2019s cheer program.<\/p>\n

The legacy of the football team’s cheerleading program was also the subject of this week’s This is Montreal podcast episode.<\/p>\n

LISTEN | This is Montreal on the Alouettes and the cheerleading program:<\/p>\n

This is Montreal28:15Beyond batons & pom poms: The many eras of the Montreal Alouettes cheerleaders<\/p>\n

And finally, here’s a look at several women who left their mark on the Alouettes cheerleading program over the years.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS | Alouettes cheerleaders, then and now:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-865459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}