{"id":189374,"date":"2025-07-07T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/189374\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:32:11","slug":"cowboys-cheerleader-marries-rival-nfl-player-with-thunderstruck-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/189374\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Cheerleader Marries Rival NFL Player With ‘Thunderstruck’ Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cowboys Cheerleader Marries Rival NFL Player With ‘Thunderstruck’ Theme<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FRISCO –\u00a0The NFL world first learnt of Cade York and Zo\u00eb Dale before the Dallas Cowboys played host to the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 9 late last season.<\/p>\n

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He was the Bengals’ kicker.<\/p>\n

She “kicked,” too, as a member of the world-famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.<\/p>\n

And this July 4 weekend? They are kickin’ it together as husband and wife.<\/p>\n

Back before that game on “Monday Night Football” (which York’s Bengals won), the much-traveled young kicker commented on the romance.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Our teams) are playing on Monday, and I was like, \u2018Well, Zo\u00eb, I will see you at home no matter what,\u2019\u201d he said then.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s pretty cool. \u2026 She\u2019s going to be rooting for me. It\u2019s gonna be great. She already told me (during) second quarter and fourth quarter is when she\u2019s on the visitor\u2019s side, so I\u2019ll have to sneak her a couple smiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Aww.<\/p>\n

After York\u2019s team won, photographers chased him down as he ran over to the sideline to exchange a victory kiss.<\/p>\n

And now they have exchanged vows.<\/p>\n

“Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God\u2019s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us,” Zoe wrote on social media about the bond.<\/p>\n

York, a native of McKinney who played at Prosper High School and then at LSU, was initially drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 2022 before being traded to the Washington Commanders two years later. After playing one game with the Commanders, he was waived in September 2024 and then was signed by the Bengals.<\/p>\n

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The couple is now showing off photos of their ceremony at Verona Villa in Frisco, Texas.<\/p>\n

And yes, the Cheerleaders in attendance teamed up, of course, for a wedding version of the DCC’s iconic\u00a0“Thunderstruck” performance.<\/p>\n

Related: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Break Jerry Jones Tradition And ‘Rally Together’ for Major Rule-Breaker<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Jerry Jones’ Cowboys Announce $500,000 Donation Following Texas Flooding Tragedy<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 7, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys Cheerleader Marries Rival NFL Player With ‘Thunderstruck’ Theme originally appeared on Athlon Sports. FRISCO –\u00a0The NFL world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41070,256,257,18459,7,16166,6,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-189374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-cade-york","9":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-monday-night-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114814330081904727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189374","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=189374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}