{"id":344237,"date":"2025-09-05T17:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/344237\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:46:12","slug":"dallas-cowboy-cheerleaders-open-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon-after-nfl-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/344237\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders open \u2018The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u2019 after NFL opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders opened The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday with a high-energy performance. The show followed the NFL season opener where the Dallas Cowboys played the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n

Six dancers shook their pompoms in unison to a new routine as a glowing star floated behind them while Steve Higgins introduced the guests for the night.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t their first appearance on the late-night show. In June, the squad performed their signature pregame \u201cThunderstruck\u201d routine<\/a> alongside Fallon during a segment called Audience Suggestion Box.<\/p>\n

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The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders drew national attention in 2024 after the first season of America\u2019s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders premiered on Netflix. The series pulls back the curtains on the iconic team, spotlighting grueling tryouts, long hours of rehearsals and the challenge of balancing personal lives with professional demands.<\/p>\n

Season 2 grabbed just as much attention after premiering in June. One buzzworthy moment was when the show revealed dancers secured a 400% pay raise<\/a> after some veteran cheerleaders advocated for wage increases throughout the season.<\/p>\n

Netflix announced in August that America\u2019s Sweethearts will return for Season 3 in 2026.<\/p>\n

Arts Access is an arts journalism collaboration powered by The Dallas Morning News and KERA.<\/p>\n

This community-funded journalism initiative is funded by the Better Together Fund, Carol & Don Glendenning, City of Dallas OAC, Communities Foundation of Texas, The University of Texas at Dallas, The Dallas Foundation, Eugene McDermott Foundation, James & Gayle Halperin Foundation, Jennifer & Peter Altabef and The Meadows Foundation. The News and KERA retain full editorial control of Arts Access\u2019 journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders opened The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday with a high-energy performance. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[1758,29164,62171,230,229,257,18459,2461,7,6,12902,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-344237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-tv","9":"tag-arts-entertainment","10":"tag-arts-access","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders","15":"tag-dallascowboys","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-dallas-cowboys","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115152944400294348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344237","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=344237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}