Every Sunday, Thursdays and Mondays, too, they take the field.

They're all over the Jumbotrons. Fans jump to their feet and cheer them. Kids wear their uniforms in the stands, even dress up like

them for Halloween. They're NFL cheerleaders. And despite their fame, the hours of practice,

and the rigorous tryout to make the team, they are paid a tiny fraction of the National Football

League's minimum salary. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Courtney Collins in for

Chris Boyd. For years, lawsuits have been filed challenging the ultra-low pay of NFL cheerleaders,

but where do things stand now? Journalist Chabelli Carazana considers this in her new piece

for the 19th news. It's called NFL cheerleaders have been fighting for better pay for 10 years.

They're still being sideline.

Chabelli, welcome back to think.

Thanks so much for having me again.

So you start with a story in this piece about a raiderette named Lacey,

who cheered for the Oakland Raiders when that team was still in Oakland.

They're in Las Vegas now.

So tell me a little bit about Lacey and we'll get to kind of her legal pursuits later on.

But tell me about her. What was she juggling and what was her experience like?

Yeah. So Lacey, this was in 2014, was a young mom. She had a toddler and she had danced for the Golden State Warriors previously and got this very highly coveted cheer spot on the Raiders team. Hundreds of people try out for

these every year. She was able to get in, and she was having the time of her life. She was having a

great time. It was a really fun job, life. She was having a great time.

It was a really fun job, but it was also a really demanding job, right?

She was practicing three times a week, several hours for each practice.

She was going to games.

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