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[cajunhawk]

I find nothing wrong with what these men are doing. The people who think it's stupid or gay, are jealous they aren't a part of the crew. And by the way I would rather watch the Roosta dance on ESPN than anything associated with that purple and ____ yellow mess on the wrong side of the river. Pick your battles eh fellas.

[SMD7636]

Crew de Chew does an excellent job with food and hospitality. I sure hope ESPN shows the great cooking, delicious food, and fine folks from Louisiana. This would be an accurate representation of the cajun culture. It's time to let our intelligence, music, and fun loving spirit show on national television.

[SMD7636]

I can also say I don't think the roosta is "gay". As I personally know what it's like to be gay and wouldn't be caught sober doing the dance, but, of course, to each his own.

[alexm]

This is straight off the AP news wire.

[Turbine]

_ This is straight off the AP news wire. _

LOL

[TheFan]

Well said!

Wow pages and pages of disagreement. Look, I understand people are having fun and that's what it's all about, but you have to look outside the box. I guarantee that over half of the tailgating population (60-75%) think that this dance is over-the-top ridiculous and we're only talking about our localized tailgating, not ESPN's audience. I know you guys in the Krewe love to cook. Why not do it big with lots of cajun cooking and have the cameras focus in on these positives for our community and team instead of ESPN making a mockery of the weirdest looking roosta dance accompanied with an extremely weird and overly done thriller dance. We tailgate about 4 spots away and we notice that everyone around us thinks and feels the same way. Do it every tailgate if it's the absolute funnest thing you guys do each week. Long story short, it doesn't have to be Nationally Televised. Continue feeding everyone, playing the 30,000 song playlist, etc etc. I love tailgating just like everyone else, maybe do some zydeco cajun dancing (just leave the silly costumes out of it).

PS......

I know NFL teams have weird people dressing up weird ("Whistle Man" for the Saints, "Dawgs in the Dog Pound" for the Browns, etc, etc....) That's the NFL, these teams are established and not looked at on a small scale. We already get laughed at for the dumbest crap. Don't add one more.

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT!

igeaux.mobi

[cajun tom]

My mama always said "Doing the Rooster Dance is of the Devil"

[tetragrammaton]

Well, it's nice to see this discussion remained civil.

How dare people have fun, indeed.

Again, I ask you, how is it any different from a "Second Line"? Or any other line dance? If anything, the great thing about this dance is that anyone can do it. This ain't "So you think you can dance?" (More like: 'So you think you can Roosta?')

Seriously? WHAT is offensive or embarrassing about it? I fail to see what is so bad about it. Again, is it the fact that it looks "country" or something like that? Is it that it involves cajun or zydeco music?

I'm trying to picture myself watching grown men and women act like chickens on national TV, claiming to represent me and my family, and not weep for humanity, the Cajun Nation, and my alma mater.

Who claimed that the Krewe "represents" you? They just represent the Krewe.

It wouldn't be so bad if you people could actually dance. I saw the video. It just looks like a group of people who do this "dance" because they don't really know how to dance.

That's the beauty of it. Even the kids can join in. Seriously? Are we getting elitist about our dancing at a frickin' field full of tailgaters? This ain't opera. It's football.

You say "by all means don't come by" I tail right in front of that embarrassment so I can't help but see it every week. O and by the way I was their many years before the Krewe moved in. To put that on ESPN would be a very selfish on your part since every Cajun fan who comes to my spot and their has been hundreds over the years think its gay. The only people who thinks it is cool is the people under the krewes tent. By the way I am over forty.

That embarrasses you? Seriously? Why? I really don't understand what is "embarrassing" about it.

Seriously....? It's "gay"? You're talking about a sport where over twenty players dress up in tights and regularly pat each other on the @$$, but someone dancing and having fun is gay?

If it is that embarrassing, I'm sure you can look into getting another spot.... Who was there first really doesn't matter. We pay for the spot just like you do.



Maybe I'm totally missing something, but I don't see how dancing to zydeco music is reinforcing any stereotypes....

[tetragrammaton]

On a side note, yes, I find the following completely offensive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_E-p...eature=related

[tetragrammaton]

When all is said and done, if this brings more people to Cajun Field, great.

If more people go the game, even better.