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The new Mennesota Vikings’ male cheerlers joined two of their women’s colleagues in a social media video filmed in a bathroom.
The video, which was originally downloaded on Tiktok by the Vikings cheerleader, Brianna Putney, showed her and her teammate Jenna Kathlyn making a dance with the two men, Blaze Shiek and Louie Conn, with “Truth Hurts” by Lizzo playing in the background.
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The representation of male and female cheerlers in the same bathroom caused a backlash on social networks.
PK Press Club Digital contacted the Vikings for an answer.
Shiek and Conn have been the subject of a fierce debate on social networks after Speak against criticismBecause the team even published a statement to defend the two men of the joy team.
Vikings are not the first team to employ cheerlers. THE Rams of Los Angeles were the first organization to have male cheerleaders in 2018. Baltimore Ravens also presented several men in their cheerleader team.
In the meantime, the Carolina Panthers had the first cheap Girl Transgenre on his team until this year.
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)
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However, the situation of the Vikings has become a source of national debate in the midst of recent publications of social networks of Sheik and Conn.
Former Vikings player Jack Brewer and Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Were expressed against the organization to have male cheerlers.
Brewer, a former Vikings captain, told PK Press Club Digital that he thought that the inclusion of men in the Cheerleading team was an attempt to “manipulate children”.
Jack Brewer, former security of the Vikings of Minnesota, speaks during a round table at the conservative political action conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, United States, Saturday, February 27, 2021. (Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“It is purely an attempt to manipulate young children, to go beyond the minds of young children with this spiritual wickedness,” said Brewer. “The influence on children is to manipulate the minds of children. They teach young boys that it is normal to have pompoms and applause and act as women.”
Tuberville said Outkick’s “hot micro” On Tuesday, he thinks that fans could stop buying tickets on the problem.
“People will actually stop buying tickets because it is the story they are trying to push.” It is a question of pushing a story that you want to put the genre in sport and let everyone know that we are trying to show: “Hey, we will take a little masculinity.” “
Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, sounded on the use by the Vikings of Minnesota of male cheerlers. (Getty Images)
The team supported the two men, saying that the team is “proud” to have them on the sidelines for this next season.
“The male cheerlers are among the previous teams of the Vikings and have long been associated with college and professionals cheerleading,” said the Vikings NBC News. “We support all our cheerlers and are proud of the role they play as an ambassadors of the organization.”
