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Host Sarah Hepola counts down her favorite moments from our series on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
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Host Sarah Hepola counts down her favorite moments from our series on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Read NowThe Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have navigated scandals and cultural shifts in the last few years. What is their future in this new world?
Listen NowDana Presley Killmer joined the squad at the peak of its popularity, but the $15 game rate hadn't changed, and wouldn't for many years.
Read NowFrom honey shots to swimsuit calendars, sex has long been part of the cheerleaders’ brand. But is the provocative tease a relic of another era?
Listen NowIt’s not just about being the right weight. It’s about having the right hair, the right skin, the right boobs, the right legs. Only a very particular kind of beautiful woman gets to wear that uniform.
Listen NowOne former Cowboys cheerleader tells the story behind her epic encounter with Danny White, in a picture that was quashed for 25 years.
Read NowBeing a Cowboys cheerleader has always meant living by a long list of rules. But do those rules help protect the cheerleaders or control them?
Listen NowA dynamic professor, a feisty seamstress, a firebrand dancer, and the other underappreciated architects of the phenomenon that transformed the NFL.
Read NowThe Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders uniform is iconic, a symbol of Texas culture for half a century. But its origin story remains remarkably unsettled.
Listen NowTami Barber became a sweetheart of the seventies-era cheerleaders. But she also had—and still has—a rebel streak.
Read NowThey were at the center of a scandal that rocked the NFL. More than forty years later, would they finally tell their side?
Read NowA group of former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders pose topless in Playboy, and the Cowboys go to court to protect their brand.
Listen NowShannon Baker Werthmann got more fan mail than any woman on the seventies squad. We talk sexiness, fair pay, encounters with Roger Staubach, and getting fired by Kelli Finglass.
Read NowVonciel Baker still holds the record for most years on the squad.
Read NowThe cheerleaders enjoy the glamour of sudden fame, while grappling with low pay and the dangers that celebrity brings.
Listen NowThe modern Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders launch in 1972 and rocket to national fame.
Listen NowInside the wild, glamorous, and complicated saga of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, an institution that changed sports, entertainment, and countless childhoods of boys and girls like me.
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