Five Buffalo Bills cheerleaders filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming wage violations, uncompensated costs, and a litany of demeaning work conditions as members of the squad.

As members of the Buffalo Jills organization — which quickly suspended all operations in the wake of the litigation — cheerleaders were subject to a weekly “jiggle test” to assess every inch of their body and given a list of rules including how to wash their “intimate areas,” the suit claims.

And while the team pulls in about $256 million in annual revenue, the five Jills maxed out at $1,800 — and as low as $105 — in a single season, the lawsuit claims.

But soon after joining I realized that it wasn’t what I expected — basically when I first saw the contract.

There were things in there that made you think, “Really?” Do they really think we don’t know this stuff? Just getting down to ridiculous detail about how we needed to act and talk and walk and dress.

For instance, how much bread to eat at a formal dinner, how our nails needed to be clear polish or manicured, our hair done a certain way — this was not only when we were working and in uniform, but in our personal life as well. We were instructed on how to act off the field. And it got pretty gritty too — how to wash intimate areas.

From the Jills’ Etiquette for Formal Dining, for instance, for soup, it states: “Dip the spoon into the soup moving it away from your body until it is about two thirds full, then sip the liquid without slurping from the side of the spoon without inserting the whole spoon in your mouth.” [Laughs] Hearing myself say it just sounds ridiculous.

I was taken back by it all. It’s degrading. It’s embarrassing to even talk about.

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I always find complaints like this annoying. What did you think the role of a cheerleader was? No one gives a shit about your athleticism or skills. You're wearing skimpy clothes on a sideline and dancing around between the action. You're getting paraded around wealthy business people at fancy dinners or other team festivities.

I knew one of the Jaguar's Cheerleaders ...
I questioned back then her having to pay to transport herself to games, and all the other shit behind it ...

Still, they get suckers to do it, and at their personal expense(s) ...

One of my friends was roommates with an Eagles cheerleader or dancer, I forget which. That about summarizes what I heard from her, too. You're paying your own way to be a nameless, faceless sex object.

Well worth the money, eh?