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Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brown.

I saw a piece in New York Times. Really interesting about cheerleading.

Primarily in the NFL, so many women for so few

jobs, they sign these contracts of adhesion, these NDAs. They're sent out there. They actually go

into parking lots. They go into suites of season ticket holders. And even in one case, going into

homes where they're groped, they're harassed, they can't even

have any fraternization with players. It really is an interesting piece on how this sexualization

of cheerleaders started way back when. The authors of the piece, Juliet McCur, and John Branch

in New York Times, now ahead on the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand. Welcome, Juliet. Welcome, John.

Thank you.

Hello. Glad to be here.

The name of your article in New York Times this week is pro-tearleaders say groping and sexual harassment are part of the job.

And reading through it is just striking.

Some of the things that these girls, these ladies go through. I just want to give

you guys a blank slate right at the beginning and talk about what hit you most in your

reporting of this issue, what stuck out to you, and we can get into some of the granular details

that you reported, but kind of a basic

headline beyond the one I read in terms of what you found out in reporting about these

cheerleaders. First, you, John.

Sure. What struck me is that every cheerleader that I talk to has these kinds of stories, these kinds of war

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