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The male cheerleaders of the Vikings of Minnesota sparked a debate among the fans of the NFL in the pre-season even if the franchise was far from being the first to have them on their sidelines.
Napoleon Jinnies, which was the first male male cheerle of NFL when he performed for the Rams of Los Angeles in 2018, was released to defend Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn.
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The cheerleader Girl Napoleon Jinnies in a pre-season match in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Harry How / Getty Images)
Jinnies told people in a recent interview that indignation around male cheerlers was not new.
“I ride my eyes,” he told the magazine. “They say nothing new.”
Jinnies remembers her own trip to the university’s competitive cheerful cheerfulness to try to make a profession of her passion. He was not the only men’s male cheerleader on the team.
He said the criticisms sent unpleasant messages on social networks and timed them during the games. He said comments and criticisms did not bother him because they did not attack his capacities of encouragement or dance.
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The Minnesota Vikings Girl Girl, Blaize Shiek, occurs before the NFL 2025 pre-season match against the New England Patriots at US Bank Stadium on August 16, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images)
“Comments from people who were from my childhood to the pre-adolescent at the college were exactly the same comments from these random adults,” he said. “And they say nothing about what I put as an artist.”
He added that he had received a ton of support that overshadowed hatred and applauded the skills of Shiek and Conn.
“Maybe I could see their point if they were bad cheerreaux,” he said about detractors. “But they are beaten for the step and step by step the killing with the girls. I look at them as a dance judge, like” well, they shine. Sorry if it changed your feathers. “”
Shiek and Conn continued to play for the Vikings despite the indignation of social media.
The Vikings of the Vikings of Minnesota lead the crowd during the third quarter against the New England Patriots at the US Bank Stadium on August 16, 2025. (Images Jeffrey Becker / Imagn)
The Minnesota started season 2-1 despite the loss of the quarter-Arrière JJ McCarthy for a few weeks with an injury.
