I spent 40 years as an investment banker for Texas municipal bonds. During that time, I had to sit through a school board meeting where the board president was being arrested for shooting his wife, where a community member screamed at the district lawyer for being "a Mexican," and where a husband hit the superintendents for sleeping with his wife. But, by far, I never experience ANYTHING as bad as a "cheerleader controversy." I sat for four hours while community members came close to blows over whether the cheerleader should be suspended over drinking beer at the game, or whether it was true that it "was just NyQuil."
In small town Texas, cheerleaders are the closest thing to royalty. They are terrific athletes and they are full of drama.
This is the peak of the lives of a lot of kids, and it deserves as much acclaim as "Friday Night Lights."
Trinity Valley was one of my clients, and I miss those kids.
Classify them as "athletes."
