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Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, weighed into the conversation around the Minnesota Viking’s male cheerleaders.
Viking ‘team was the subject of conversation since the beginning of the forecast. Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn pulled Ire by NFL fans on social media.
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Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, arrives at a Republican Caucus lunch in the Senate at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on April 2, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Tuberville showed up on Outkick’s “Hot Mic” on Tuesday and put NFL on notice.
“I want to ask the ownership of the NFL and the Commissioner, what the hell are you doing?” he said. “You’ve got # 1 sport on planet Earth with regard to people who see it. Your business is growing, it’s getting better and better. There are some ways you’ve been trying to attack it for the past 10-15 years, but you’ve been able to resist it.
“But if you wake up and you will try to take the men out of men’s sports, which is what you are doing. They are trying to take sex and say, ‘Ok, we will do it more about gender than we are about masculinity.’ Then you will have a huge problem.
Tuberville warned that fans can stop buying tickets for games if male cheerleaders become more widespread.
Minnesota Vikings Cheerleader Blaize Shiek performs before the NFL Preseason 2025 game against 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 do it. They are one of the blue states. We’ve lost them. They’re more about socialism and all the things going on with it, and it’s about 150 gender. At the end of the day, I hope it doesn’t come south to Atlanta or to Texas or to Dallas or to some of our NFL teams because you want to lose it,” he said.
“People will actually stop buying tickets because this is the story they are trying to push. This is not just about a few people who are men cheerleaders. It’s about pushing a story that you want to put sex into sports and let everyone know that we are trying to show, ‘Hi, we will take the masculinity out of it a little.’ And it will not happen in the south.
The Vikings issued a statement to defense of Shiek and Conn last week.
“Male cheerleaders have been a part of previous Viking team and have long been associated with Collegiate and professional cheerleading,” the team told NBC News. “We all support our cheerleaders and are proud of the role they play as ambassadors for the organization.”
Minnesota Vikings Cheerleader Louie Conn sets up with cheerleaders in the first quarter of the NFL 2025 play between New England Patriots and Minnesota Vikings at US Bank Stadium on August 16, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (David Berding/Getty Images)
Shiek and Conn are both in their first seasons as Vikings cheerleaders.
