The NFL team refuses to go back after facing a violent reaction for hiring 2 male cheerleaders
Some football fans are overturning through the cheerleaders.
The Vikings of Minnesota received a reaction attack on social networks after it hired two male animators, Louie Conn and Blaize Shiek.
Earlier this month, the NFL team gently announced on Instagram that your Cheer team had some new additions.
“The next generation of joy has arrived!” A legend reads next to a video that presented Conn making a setback.
Numerous fans immediately called on the decision of the team to hire two men who seem to be very qualified For work.
“I just lost all my respect for the Vikings,” said an Instagram user in response to the publication of the team that included Conn.
“I am no longer a Viking fan,” he echoed.
“Just trying to anger fans with this huh?” Another user complained.
The publication of the Vikings is not the only one that receives heat. TO Shiek Video Tiktok Dancing with a colleague has been making the rounds on the now highly conservative platform of Elon Musk, X. In the middle of the innumerable homophobic comments aimed at Shiek in X, a user clearly declared clearly: “I have no problem with male cheerleaders, but I have a problem with the male cheerleaders that act as women.”
However, it seems that the Vikings are firm in their decision to hire Conn and Shiek.
“The male cheerleaders have been part of previous Vikings teams and for a long time they have associated with university and professionals,” the team said in a statement to NBC News last week. “We support all our cheerleaders and we are proud of the role they play as ambassadors of the organization.”
The team told NBC that no fanatic has canceled their seasonal tickets due to the decision.
Brooks Kraft through Getty Images
And since the reaction seems to come from the most conservative internet corners, it should also be taken into account that former Republican presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Regan and Dwight Eisenhower They were also cheerleaders in their youth.
Conn and Shiek have also responded to Hullabaloo on social networks.
Conn simply set a selfie of himself and Shiek dressed in his Vikings uniforms to his Instagram account.
The title says: “Wait … Does anyone say our name?”
Shiek set the same publication to his Instagram account, but the bet has increased a little more than Conn.
On Monday, Shiek published an Instagram story that shows the musician Lizzo singing the lyrics, “New Man on the Minnesota Vikings” of his 2019 success, “The truth hurts” on one side, and on the other, Conn and Shiek shaking his pom poms with two cheerleaders.
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Screen capture @blaize_shiek through Instagram
Shiek published another Tiktok during the weekend who presents him to him already acting as Audio by Nicki Minaj saying: “Um, if you don’t like it, it’s fine. But, you know, look at your mouth,” he plays in the background.