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Question: Why do Cheerleaders and Pom Squads Sing?

Answer: The Only Time did happened is one NFL Team, The San Francisco 49ers at Kezar Stadium the cheerleaders were called The Niner Nuggets. They were known at the time as the only singing cheerleading squad in the NFL.

Now Let's Do A What If, Let's See How Cheerleaders (in Pro Sports) and Pom Squads Sing?

Well it all started back in 1928 when School drill teams were started by Gusie Neil Davis, she created the first drill team, then called a pep squad, at Greenville High School in Greenville, TX. They were called the Flaming Flashes and performed at halftime, then she created the World Famous Kilgore Rangerettes in 1940, after something had Changed, Gussie Neil Davis started making their first-ever Singing Routine for the Kilgore Rangerettes and so they did after World War II, In 1945 Davis created their first Song and Dance Routine for the Kilgore College Rangerettes and made it successful, the first song and dance high school drill team was started in 1946, later on in the 1960s Professional Cheerleading Teams were popular that the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders soon gained the spotlight with their revealing outfits and sophisticated dance moves, which debuted in the 1972–1973 season by performing their first ever song and dance routine.

Only for Pageants Broadway Style Production with Song and Dance Routines are popular today, for instance the Miss Universe Organization made popular by having the Opening Number in the 2011 Miss USA Pageant in which all 51 Girls performed to a song J.Lo called on the Floor (including Kaylin Reque who is one of the final members of the Blue Crew of the Atlanta Thrashers before hedding to Winnipeg and became the Jets and Kia Hampton who would later become a Pussycat Doll), State Pageants are still doing good too for example Miss Texas USA led the Pageant Music Business in Merchandising as the Miss Texas USA Pageant is run by the Crystal Group (directed by Al & Gail Clark and is still being televised today), and another powerhouse K2 Productions is still going strong with the Televised Miss California USA Pageant which the 2011 Pageant was a successful soundtrack (with some solo songs by Brittany McGowan, Allie Ibarra and others), today several Pageant Music and Vocal Drill Team Music (a.k.a. Vocal Dance Team Music) are going strong today.
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