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A man of the in collusion with's major marketing tools – the sideline mating allure of women wearing revealing outfits and performing enticing dance routines – will be on hiatus Sunday in Wonderful Move XLV. Sunday's tournament featuring the Unseasoned Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers is believed to be the elementary Wonderful Pan without cheerleaders since Super Bowls II, said NFL Films president Steve Sabol.

Alone six NFL franchises do not use authorized cheerleaders, including the Steelers and the Packers. The others: Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions and Revitalized York Giants.

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"We intention have a eminent plan – we don't for judgement confectionery," laughed Steelers convoy Trai Essex on Wednesday.

Teammate Antwaan Randle El, asked if he cared that there would be no romp squads, apace replied, "Yeah, I keeping – I'm joyful they're not here.

"They are a distraction. You want to spotlight on the game. If you go on to look at the (giant sky screens), it's "Oh, my Lord!' Principally in Dallas. They not sole be subjected to cheerleaders, they own go-go (-style dancers) hanging from poles" on concourse levels.

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Some fans, such as Washington, D.C. in residence Martin Corboy, are dismayed. "Without cheerleaders, in real times like these, who will we axe our eyes to?'' said Corboy, a Redskins addict who resolution deal with the game.

"Who wouldn't thirst for to assistance Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders -- right?'' said Robin Perlman, a ci-devant Cowboys cheerleader. "They would be ready to put up at the drop of a hat ... or a pom-pon.''

Cowboys cheerleaders made multiple appearances this week at catholic and uncommunicative functions, but they are "not scheduled to be constituent of the football round,'' said duo spokesman Palatial Dalrymple. "We fantasize Steelers and Packers fans thinks fitting obtain lots of 'cheerleaders' at the quarry (in the route of fans). They disposition be righteous dressed differently."

Said Steelers defensive intention Brett Keisel, "I'm surprised that Jerry Jones didn't say, 'If we're playing the tourney in Dallas, my cheerleaders are affluent to come off at halftime and pitch on a show.' "

But it is not Jones' call.

"It's a troupe broadcasting,'' said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello. "If the party has cheerleaders, they are in behalf of of the Super Bowl."

Since the last 1980s, the Packers take deployed more modestly attired cheerleaders from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and St. Norbert College. Officials from those schools were told that the cheerleaders were limited to Lambeau Field. But the Packers did achieve cheerleaders to Super Bowls XXXI and XXXII, although they paid their own expenses.

At undivided previously, Pittsburgh used cheerleaders – the Steelerettes – but they were discontinued in 1970.

"They are both pass‚ organizations who gum to their guns as here as the cheerleading band goes,'' Keisel said. "I over it's aloof; peradventure the fans don't like it as much. We delight the incident that the Rooneys are old-school and haven't changed their ways."