What's interesting is that the way the cheerleaders are trying to win is to argue that the teams exert so much control over their lives, they are so up in their business, that the cheerleaders deserve to be considered employees. Then, cheerleaders with the Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, women from five NFL cheerleaders teams were suing for higher pay.
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Just a few weeks after Lacy, another cheerleader filed a suit, this one against the Cincinnati Bengals. NFL cheerleaders generally make about $1,500 for the entire season, although some make as little as $850 for the entire season. Lacy was a cheerleader for the team, a rookie. In January of this year, a woman who went by the name of Lacy T filed a lawsuit against the Oakland raiders for failing to pay her minimum wage. Well, actually, in these stories, it's big institutions not minding their business and busybodying their way into all kinds of stuff, into what kind of underwear is being worn by cheerleaders, into what is happening in jail hallways in cell blocks.įrom WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life. That is being alive.Īnd today on our program, we have stories of people not minding their own business. We're programmed to make judgments about every situation that we walk into and hear about. Which is to say, it's hard minding your own business. After all, like, sure, what happens in this marriage is nobody's business but their own.īut who among us, I would ask you, who among us hears about a 67-year-old man marrying somebody a third his age without feeling like a little twinge of judginess, right? Like, who doesn't have feelings about that? Who is above that? Here's Studs talking to Mike Royko about that.Ĭan I just say- OK, it's annoying, the self-righteousness that people have in condemning this marriage, right? But it's also kind of harsh, the self-righteousness that Royko has in criticizing them. Douglas, a liberal appointed by FDR who'd been on the bench almost three decades at that point- the news was he had gotten married. I had not heard of this.īasically, a justice on the Supreme Court, William O. There was a story that was national news at the time that I would be very surprised if you heard of.
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There was some news that week about the prize fighter they still called Cassius Clay. Surgeons, he said, should instead eat salted crackers, which would replace the salt that doctors lose when they sweat. The medical director of Cook County hospital, for example, had made headlines when he said that he did not need to air condition the operating rooms in the facility.
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Anyway, on this particular day, they kill two hours very interestingly, I have to say, chatting about stories in the news. And his guest that day is a good friend of his, newspaper columnist Mike Royko, another iconic Chicago figure. It's a Friday in July nearly 50 years ago.