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Senator Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Republican, intervened in the conversation about the male animators of the Minnesota Vikings.
The Vikings team was the topic of conversation since the beginning of the preseason. Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn drawn the wrath of NFL fans on social networks.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, arrives at a lunch of the Senate Republican Caucus in the United States Capitol in Washington, DC on April 2, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu through Getty Images)
Tuberville appeared in Outkick “Hot Mic” on Tuesday and put the NFL into account.
“I would like to ask the property of the NFL and the commissioner, what the hell are you doing?” said. “You have the number 1 sport in Planet Earth in terms of people who see it.
“But if you are going to wake up and try to get the men out of men’s sports, which is what you are doing. They are trying to take the genre and say: ‘Ok, we are going to do more gender than masculinity.’ Then, you will have a big problem.
Tuberville warned that fans can stop buying ticket tickets if male cheerleaders become more frequent.
The Vikings animator of the Minnesota, Blaize Shiek, acts before the NFL 2025 preseason match against the New England patriots at the US Bank stadium on August 16, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty images)
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“You can see Minnesota doing it. They are one of the blue states. We have lost them. It is more about socialism and all the things that continue with that and are about 150 genres. At the end of the day, I hope that God does not come to the south of Atlanta or Texas or Dallas or some of our NFL teams because you will lose it,” he said.
“People will actually stop buying tickets because this is the narrative they are trying to boost. It is not just that a couple of people be the cheerleaders of men. It is about pushing a narrative that you want to put the genre in sports and make everyone know that we are trying to show: ‘Hey, we are going to get the masculinity a little.’ And that will not happen in the south.”
The Vikings released a statement in defense of Shiek and Conn last week.
“The male cheerleaders have been part of previous Vikings teams and for a long time they have associated with university and professionals,” the team told NBC News. “We support all our cheerleaders and we are proud of the role they play as ambassadors of the organization.”
The Vikings cheerleader of the Minnesota, Louie Conn, aligns with the cheerleaders in the first quarter during the NFL Prineation 2025 game between the New England patriots and the Vikings of Minnesota at the USBANK Bank stadium on August 16, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (David Berding/Getty images)
Shiek and Conn are in their first seasons as Vikings cheerleaders.
