DALLAS \u2014 The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have scored a salary touchdown.<\/p>\n
The new season of the Netflix docuseries “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” includes the women getting a pay raise.<\/p>\n
“‘Happy’ isn’t even the right word for it. It kind of felt like a relief, like everything had paid off,” former cheerleader Jada McLean said. “And finally, we were done fighting.”<\/p>\n
Netflix bills the series as viewers get to “Follow the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders from auditions to training camp and the NFL season as they chase their dreams and a coveted spot on the squad.”<\/p>\n
During the first season, the audience learned that because of the low pay many of cheerleaders had to work second jobs. The women have advocated for more money for years.<\/p>\n
“Our efforts were heard, and they wanted to give us a raise,” Megan McElaney, a four-year veteran of the team, said. “And we ended up getting a 400% increase, which is, like, life-changing.”<\/p>\n
The Dallas Cowboys have long been called America’s team, and according to Forbes magazine, the franchise has “been the most valuable pro sports team in the world for almost a decade,” as reported by Associated Press.<\/p>\n
Season 2 of “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” is currently streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have scored a salary touchdown. The new season of the Netflix docuseries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[11963,1954,4865,1953,230,229,257,2461,441,7,1956,1955,820,88,6,1958,1959,9,1957,1951,1599,1952],"class_list":{"0":"post-143667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cars","10":"tag-celebrity","11":"tag-classifieds","12":"tag-cowboys","13":"tag-dallas","14":"tag-dallas-cowboys","15":"tag-dallascowboys","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-homes","19":"tag-jobs","20":"tag-local","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-salt-lake","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-television","27":"tag-traffic","28":"tag-utah","29":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}