Redskins Cheerleaders Continue to Dominate

The Post has already written the full story of the Redskins cheerleaders' invasion of Indian cricket, but the Indian press keeps this story churning. As the Indo-Asian News Service put it,

The svelte Washington Redskin Cheerleaders, who have created more than a stir with their presence in the Indian Premier League (IPL), will leave behind a bunch of girls trained by them to set up a permanent presence here.

Please, let's make the official name "The Svelte Washington Redskin Cheerleaders." Happily, cricket fans have treated all the new cheerleaders, not just those from D.C., with respect befitting their stature.

"It's been horrendous," Tabitha, a cheerleader from Uzbekistan, told the Hindustan Times.

"Wherever we go we do expect people to pass lewd, snide remarks but I'm shocked by the nature and magnitude of the comments people pass here."

Actually, I didn't realize Tabitha was a common Uzbeki name. The country's leaders, meanwhile, have embraced the concept of scantily clad on-field entertainment.

"What the cheerleaders are doing during cricket matches is ten times more vulgar than what used to happen in dance bars of Mumbai," Nitin Gadkari, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra, home to the Mumbai Indians.

The BJP is India's main opposition party, which was part of a coalition which banned popular bars in Mumbai where girls would dance on stage to Bollywood tunes.

"If we could ban dance bars, how can we allow such vulgar dance in a cricket field. I am getting huge complaints and cheerleaders must be banned immediately from entering a cricket field," Gadkari said.

Bah. Next thing you know they'll want to ban beer, lewd chants, fistfights, players who spend the entire offseason in strip clubs and Mel Kiper.

Useless without video of Redskins cheerleaders dancing to Indian-style music? Here ya go.

By Dan Steinberg | April 24, 2008; 11:06 AM ET | Category: Redskins
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My lord, look how vulgar they are in that video. I've never seen such a lewd display in all my cricket-watching.

Uhhh... Memo to Indian opposition party:
If this is ten times more vulgar than the "Dance Bars" that you banned in Mumbai, than I could reasonably conclude that the average dance class taken by a 7-year-old girl in the United States would be more vulgar than the "Dance Bars" as well. Maybe it wouldn't be so vulgar if the Redskins Cheerleaders had brought with them a few cows and a chicken as a sort of dowry.
No, but seriously, your country is quickly becoming a modern, commercialized, consumerist nation, modeled off of the US and some European countries. It may be tough, but you'll go through a process sooner or later where your traditional values no longer apply. It happens everywhere. Sorry.

Posted by: Mike | April 24, 2008 12:20 PM

IPL is incredible, by the way.

Posted by: Eric G | April 24, 2008 1:29 PM

Cow jokes + India = Blog trouble. (Rein 'em in, Dan; rein 'em in!)
Note to Bharatiya Janata Party: This is NOT the issue with which to take offense (this is a VERY good thing to be enjoyed, in my opinion--anyway). The time for refusal was when McDonald's showed up in India.
Suggestion: Ditch the bad burgers, keep the cheerleaders.

Posted by: Arlington Pimp | April 24, 2008 4:37 PM

I hope that wasn't the entire pom-pom routine they took over there. Huh? I wasn't supposed to be watching the routine?

Posted by: sitruc | April 25, 2008 10:20 AM

Redskins Cheerleaders Continue to Dominate

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