NFL Cheerleaders...Overated?

From pee wee to varsity I've always loved the sport of cheerleading, yes the sport, but as I look towards college and being a cheerleader it seems like the final step is that College cheerleading is "professional." As I watch the football games and see the professional cheerleaders, they look nothing more then "man pleasers." Honestly, they have no purpose to me at the national level and they don't have a purpose being there. Don't get me wrong I love cheerleading, but with the very skimpy outfits they wear and the meaningless dances they do on the sidelines it just doesnt seem like cheerleading to me anymore. In a world where women do work so hard to get where they are it seems like the NFL cheerleaders forget all that (that's without me actually knowing a cheerleader.) But I take that back, my fifth grade teacher was a "Buffalo Jill" and when every boy in my class expected her to be hot, she walked in looking something close to what my grandmother looked like, no "hot" qualities according to the boys. Back when she cheered for the Buffalo Bills, it was much more like actual cheerleading, carrying heavy pom poms and even bringing one in to show us. Now a days though cheerleading seems to be at its peak when you are at the collge level. Doing stunts that are even illegal at the high school level risking serious injury. They cheer for football,soccer and basketball and they also compete. The NFL cheerleaders don't compete and don't do life risking mounts, they're more a pretty face for all the boys in the crowd.

-Missy