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I'm just now catching up on this thread (I'm mainly a lurker for the spoiler page, but like y'all I'm binging the Pluto channel). When I first read this comment, as a Dallas native I was like "ooooh, I kind of want to point out that this is actually a 'thing' here, that there is a company called The Original Butt Sketch that has an entire team of artists who are hired for corporate events and weddings and retreats much like one would hire a caricature artist except instead of a cartoony version of you in a go-cart, it's your backside and there is always some cutesy phrase written in like 'the best days are ahead' or 'cheers to the years behind us'. (Can you tell that we have a few of these in our house? Look up the sketches online, the ones in formal wear really do look awesome and are fun + different mementos.) So the girls aren't necessarily being skanky and/or the artist wasn't being a huge perv by asking them to turn around; really the DCC organizers of the retreat brought that artist in specifically for that purpose. BUT as I started typing this, I'm now thinking 'that scene hasn't aged well, and if you didn't know any of the backstory (see what I did there) of course it looks horrible.' (And side note: I'm also wondering how that business is doing in 2019.)

People from East Texas, people from small towns in neighboring states, people from towns with one stop light. I went to college in the sticks and I once invited someone home with me to go to the State Fair, and she literally was texting people saying "i'm in the big city".

They are up SOOOOO LATE on work and or school nights!!!! ("Holly's talk" was close to midnight!!!) I guarantee the apts that are being built on property are WAY out of the budgets of TCCs. (I'm thinking to all of the times we've been granted peeks into apartments - moving-in days, vets coming over to share tips, fridge raids. But Frisco and it's surrounding cities have a lot of housing options.) How amazing would it be if the show decided to move in a direction like The Real World or America's Next Top Model where DCC owned a few or one large apt, large enough to where all 10-12 rookie candidates lived together while in camp and that bill was picked up by the team or the show. THAT would be SUCH a more fun way to add life to MTT and would really humanize the candidates instead of profiling yet another heartbreaking sob story of how a girl overcame chubby ankles or uneven eyebrows to become the best dancer of her college pom squad.

Oh, I absolutely agree with you about the above, and I sometimes forget that so many people do see DFW as the biggest city in the world. (I'm from the area so to me it's all old and lame, but there are sooooooooo many places that scream "good clean fun" that are way easier to get away with underage drinking than in a club. Half the movie theaters have bars and serve drinks during the shows in the dark, and even some of the better bowling allies and venues like Top Golf have private VIP sections. The guys could have booked a booth big enough to hold the entire DCC squad and they all still would have been out of the public's view.) I've also wondered how a girl from such a small place who currently only has a HS diploma and makes what she does from DCC practices, games and special appearances has so many LV bags and the penchant for so many other pretty things. (I completely understand gifts from parents or family, as well as saving paychecks to buy yourself an awesome "I earned this splurge", but some appear as standard WAG adornments more than they do birthday presents you'd get from your Aunt.) To me some of her "it was fun at the time" could have also referenced the perks of being a players secret girlfriend or the thrill of sneaking around more than the joy of underage drinking. (Also my opinion, esp because she was called in for a weight warning, she might not have been drinking as every calorie counts, so maybe her thrill was just being out with the players, or in a place where she wasn't supposed to be.) ((Although drinking would explain the reason behind the need for a weight discussion in the first place.))

Oh, contest teams totally stalk potential winners. My moms company had a thing to celebrate their 1 millionth Facebook fan, but really they extensively checked the background of every fan from number 999,990 to the 1 million-and-10th person to give them like 20 people to pick from to make sure lucky number 1 million wasn't secretly a nazi or a murder or pedophile since the company wanted to use the like as a publicity stunt.

I think the issues are more that she went out to bars and clubs that were 21+ and that she may or may have been there with player(s). If K+J didn't want the girls going out to nightlife places period at all, that would be in the contract, so much so that they would have mandatory curfews or have cheerleader apartments located near The Star with an Alumni "mom" checking in on everyone to make sure they are home by a certain time. And Dallas/Fort Worth is HUGE - there are plenty of venues that are all-ages or that have drinks for those who want to have a good time but are innocuous enough to pass for night of good clean fun.

If someone is cut as a veteran candidate (either at auditions or mid-camp), OR they don't finish a full season (as a vet), do they still get invited to Alumna events and/or do they still get a friendly congratulations-on-your-engagement blue star as their "something blue"? (Maybe not right away, like give it a season or two to let feelings cool off.) What about those who are cut due to suspensions or contract breakages, AND the ones who go down in a blaze of glory? (Something i've been pondering since learning about Paige-and-whats-his-face.) I was reading an article about one of the 'Real Housewives of Dallas' ladies who happens to be a former DCC; I looked up the squad photos in her decade and check out the second name of row two in year 2001, and sixth name of row three of 2002 - http://www.dallascowboys.com/content/dcc-squad-photos-2000s - they say "left squad." It doesn't appear that DCC has un-named anyone since those years despite girls leaving before the contract was up (again, Paige), but how surreal would it be if Christina did leave (either asked or on her own accord) and her name was simply documented as "left squad". Though the (normal, not-this-fourm) world will little note nor long remember the Holy-Jenna-Erica drama of this season, Christina being in the squad photo but not staying on the team until the end and being labeled "left squad" on the above website would be "cemented forever in DCC history", and random people 15 years from now who stumble upon this current years squad photo at 11:07 on a Friday night would simply assume her departure was the biggest scandal/tragedy of this season.

Long time lurker, Dallas-native who (sadly) lives out of state, and I finally have something good enough to say: Someone needs to go on a tour of Cowboys Stadium this week. I was in the DFW *this time last year (roughly a week before the first preseason game) and the 2-hour tour includes a stop in both locker rooms. We walked in and the cheerleaders room was just as glorious as it is on the show. The lockers were already assigned to the new team members, complete with their life-sized cameo photos. It was glorious. It was kind of weird knowing way in advance of the shows premier who was already on the team, but towards the end of the season it made it more fun to not get sucked into the drama and be like "Ha! You think you're safe this week but you'll get cut at some point, blondie."