Source: GutterUncensored.com
Yes! more Cheerleaders again. The cheerleaders of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers AKA the Blue Lightning Squad got themselves in trouble, after salacious pictures of them (posing provocatively in various stages of undress, some of them in their cheerleading outfits) found there way on the web earlier last week. In one photo, a cheerleader is mooning the cam on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Winnipeg is small town in Canada, which apparently has its own football team by the name of Blue Bombers. Looks like until recently these girls were in the cheer leading squad. But after the pictures below hit the Internet, they all became “former members of the team”, according to reports. What a surprise…
Blue Bombers spokesman Arash Madani told the Winnipeg Free Press on Monday:
"No current cheerleaders appear in the photos. The pictures were taken in 2005 at the latest."
"Each member puts in countless hours of training, volunteering, mentoring and making a positive impact in the community. A small number of isolated photos, from a member without any affiliation to the organization for quite some time, is not a reflection of what the Blue Lightning team or the franchise is about."
It’s doubtful anyone has ever had the impression that cheerleaders were good girls to begin with. In fact, Miley Cyrus takes more provocative pictures than these girls. FYI, these aren’t even the worst/best of the photos. One cheerleader named Nicole, appears to be in most of the pictures. She is the cheerleader mooning the camera on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. I like Nicole a lot, she seems very fun. Click on pictures to enlarge.
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There are racy photos of Bombers cheerleaders, which were taken at the Grey Cup in Ottawa in 2004, circulating on the Internet. The Bombers are trying to distance themselves from the girls in the pictures, who they say are no longer on the Blue Lightning team. We think they should bring them back for an encore performance, if only to distract the opposing teams by showing off their assets like they did in the pictures. Hey,when you're 0-4, you have to pull out all the stops. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers were scrambling to protect their reputation after racy photos featuring some of the team's former cheerleaders were posted on an Internet sports site.
The women in the photos -- whom the Bombers organization insists are former, and not current, members of the team's Blue Lightning cheerleading squad -- are shown in various states of undress and sexually provocative poses.
In a number of the pictures, the women are posing with their blue, gold and white cheerleading uniforms clearly on display.
Saucy photos of some former Winnipeg Blue Bomber cheerleaders show a major disrespect to what most participants see as an athletic and demanding sport, says a local coach.
One photo shows a woman in a Bomber cheerleading uniform cupping the breasts of another woman also clad in the blue and gold outfit. In another photo, a cheerleader moons the camera with the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in the background.
"It's just a bad image. It's an image we don't need," said Nadia El-Gabalawy, who has coached the University of Manitoba Cheerleading Team since 2006.
"What those athletes did ... was a major disrespect to the sport. But at the same time, it's not the entire team that did that, and it's not necessarily the coach that condoned that."
Some of the pictures appeared on an American website on a posting titled: Oh Canada! CFL Cheerleader Shows More Than Her Patriotic Side. In one photo a cheerleader is mooning the camera with the Peace Tower of Parliament in Ottawa clearly in the background.
Cheerleading coach Dena Clark promotes the Blue Lightning on the team's Web site as a group that leads "young women on a path of positive thinking, healthy living and athletic training ... helping the general public see these women as the multi-talented group they are, instead of a series of body parts on display."
The pictures surfaced at a time when the team is winless after three games and mired in a public debate over whether tax money should be invested in a new stadium.
Arash Madani, spokesman for the Bombers, insisted Monday that the women in the pictures aren't part of this year's squad, adding they were on the Blue Lightning in "2005 at the latest."
He said the squad shouldn't be judged by the actions of a small group of former members.
"Each member puts in countless hours of training, volunteering, mentoring, and making a positive impact in the community," he said. "A small number of isolated photos from a member without any affiliation to the organization for quite some time is not a reflection of what the Blue Lightning team or the franchise is about."
Madani said in an e-mail statement the club was only made aware of the photos Monday morning and "the matter has been addressed with the organization, including the Blue Lightning."
However, he refused to elaborate on what action had been taken, if any.
After the photos were published in local newspapers last week, Blue Lightning dance team coach Dena Clark resigned. Clark joined the volunteer dance group as a cheerleader in 1998, and became its coach in 2003.
The football club downplayed questions Monday about the photos and resignation.
"Many of the photos are dated from no later than 2005, and involve individuals who no longer have a connection with the franchise or have never been affiliated with Blue Lightning at all," Bomber spokesman Arash Madani said in a statement.
Madani confirmed Clark's departure, but declined further comment, saying the team wants to focus on Thursday's home game against the Calgary Stampeders.
Winnipeg is 0-4 this season.
"You know, I've got enough problems of my own," said Bomber head coach Doug Berry when asked about the cheerleading situation after the team's practice Monday in Winnipeg.
Ken Sessan, a Bomber fan who watched the practice from the sidelines, said the whole affair has been "blown out of proportion."
"I don't think it's a big deal at all. It's an isolated incident."
El-Gabalawy says people in the cheerleading community have to be careful every time they are in uniform. For instance, members of the University of Manitoba cheerleading team are required to change into street clothes if they want to smoke a cigarette.
"I hope people will learn from this," she said.
"I think everyone in the cheerleading community is just hoping that if we all work harder ... (and) promote cheerleading as an athletic sport, there will be less likelihood of something like this ever happening again."
Natalie Marmus is a former member of the University of Manitoba Bisons cheerleading team, which won the Sea to Sky International Cheerleading Competition last year. She said the photos will be a major setback for the sport's image.
"Cheerleading is trying hard to be an actual sport and this just degrades it," she said. "This makes it seem that all cheerleaders are is something to look at."
Marmus said cheerleading gave her self-esteem and a place to work out, make friends and learn how to be a part of a team. She said cheerleaders need to be aware that their behaviour affects the community.
"Cheerleaders are in the public eye ... something like that makes the whole city look bad," she said.
The photos scarcely seemed to raise an eyebrow at city hall Monday night, even though the city appoints representatives to the football club's board of directors.
St. Vital Coun. Gord Steeves said: "I'm not one of these people who goes around judging people by what they've done in the past."
North Kildonan Coun. Jeff Browaty's executive assistant is a member of the Bombers' cheerleading squad -- she doesn't appear in the photos. He said he hadn't seen the photos but added "this could be a ridiculous indiscretion from 10 years ago."
"I don't think it's appropriate behaviour." blogywoodbabes.blogspot.com
