CALLER 1: I was just calling to make my opinion about Damon Poeter’s cheerleading column (published June 18) asking is it a sport or not. I’m a cheerleader and I just think that you guys comparing it to a spelling bee or gardening is very wrong and I think that if you guys are going to write an article like this you guys should have a lot more support because I don’t think you guys have been to a cheerleading practice. I cheer for the ‘Baler cheerleaders at San Benito High School in Hollister and if you guys want to know more, you should come to one of our practices and see how hard us girls work because it’s definitely hard and it’s definitely a sport.
GREEN PHONE: Caller 1, you’re not alone in slamming Damon’s column. Read on …
CALLER 2: I’m calling about your response about cheerleading not being a sport. Cheerleading is definitely more of a sport than arm wrestling. Cheerleading puts in just as much hours as many of the other sports. So yes, it is a sport.
GREEN PHONE: Thanks for your input, Caller 2.
CALLER 3: I’m calling to complain because cheerleading is a sport.
GREEN PHONE: Callers, Damon informs us he will be responding to your complaints in his column Saturday. For what it’s worth, Green Phone doesn’t think his argument against cheerleading being a sport was meant to be taken quite so seriously … but let’s wait and find out what he has to say in his defense.
CALLER 4: I just wanted to say that I admire what Mike Mathiasen and the Biking Vikings are doing for Mike’s wife and for lymphoma victims everywhere.
GREEN PHONE: Caller 4, we absolutely concur with your sentiments about Gilroy resident Mathiasen, who with his longtime friend Bill Pritchard will be biking across the United States this summer to raise awareness about lymphoma, a disease from which his wife suffers. We encourage all readers to visit www.bikingvikingsforacure.com to read updates on the duo’s trip.
