Questions swirl about the link between persistent head trauma, the brain disease C.T.E., and violence the rights of African-American players to kneel in protest of racial injustice (the N.F.L. The Texans cheerleaders’ suits land in an already-embattled N.F.L. cheerleaders speaking out against years of pay and gender discrimination across the league, saying the Texans did not pay her for hours of extra work, and that Gary hurled insults at her and her teammates. In an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair, Davis added her voice to those of her former teammates, and the wave of N.F.L. The plaintiff is looking for the case to be certified as a class-action lawsuit, with two more cheerleaders reportedly ready to be added as plaintiffs. The suit echoed claims made just less than two weeks prior by another former Texans cheerleader, who on May 21 filed a federal suit against the team and its longtime cheerleading director, Altovise Gary she, too, alleged the cheerleaders were underpaid, harassed by fans, and verbally abused by Gary. Last week, five former Houston Texans cheerleaders filed a federal sex discrimination lawsuit against the team, alleging they were paid less than minimum wage and not adequately protected from fans groping them and making suggestive comments. Everything happens for a reason, she believes: Davis made the team. cheerleader, and one of the women she was so dazzled by as a tween. But just as she’d “hung up her pom-poms” in college, she couldn’t shake the urge last spring to drive three hours from Texas State in San Marcos to Houston to try out for the Texans squad to become an N.F.L. It was about more than just beauty to her-a confluence of athletics (there aren’t many other sports whose squads can do a backflip while catching a football on the dismount), discipline, and sisterhood. I can’t wait to do that one day.’”ĭavis cheered in high school, and in the national, competitive All-Star league, and in two years of college at Texas State University. “I’d go to Cowboys games, and I remember just watching the cheerleaders the whole time,” Davis told me recently by phone. Gabriella Davis, 20, first started cheerleading in middle school in Dallas, Texas around the same time, she became infatuated with those high priestesses of spirit fingers, the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
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