Very funny and for some maybe mildly blasphemous. Well that makes it even more funny to me.

Also, PostNupShow

I liked the sexual equation bit.

Poor Mr Ramrao Wagh and friends, you know what they will be doing tonight. Keeping an extra close eye on those cheerleaders.

Whatever happened to switch off the TV idea? IPL is happening in a stadium. You need tickets to enter. It is shown on channels that can be changed by the viewer. But no. I want to see the cheerleaders and I want the police and politicians to protect me from myself.

Of course, there is that ever present, difficult to answer question: what about the children. Well. What about adults only cinema? Same rules.

In some places on earth movie industry self polices. Rates the movies and private cinema theaters prevent underage viewers from watching movies they shouldn’t be watching.

I would any day prefer self-policing to politicised censorship.  But, for now, in India government appointed men and women to censor movies. They give the A or U ratings. Why not give IPL, with cheerleaders, the same A rating. Which means IPL can be shown on the same channels that show A rated movies. Or rate them PG-something. Kids above certain age can watch with parental guidance. Father can advise the son on how to observe the cheerleaders.

If that hurts the pocketbook, IPL will decide whether to have cheerleaders or not.

My opinion, cheerleading should be banned for stupidity. Not obscenity or vulgarity. Unless you think vulgarity is another form of stupidity.

By the way, I love obscenity, vulgarity, nudity and all other forms of titillations as much, probably more, than most humans. (Note I didn’t say men. I just scored a point with women by acknowledging that they can be as lecherous and voyeurs of filth as men. Men….. watch and learn the ways of currying favours with modern, feminist women.)

Always thought cheerleading was an act of stupidity. Now I find it even sillier to have cheerleading for cricket. What next, cheerleading for chess? Most of the time they are just distraction. Watch them next time when the game is tense. Even the most hormone charged fool is focused on the game, not on these women. All the while these poor women, all sexy, beautiful and very athletic, jump up and down, only to be ignored. What a waste!

I know this is blasphemy. But cricket is a boring game. Loved it when I played it as a kid. But watching it? It is acknowledgment of the boringness of cricket that we invented the one-day. One-day turned out to be only so much better that we morphed it into a 20 over game. Add some silly rules to it, that no one can figure out who is foolish enough to invent them, still not exciting enough. Now add some glamour by installing some celebrities, who probably have never hit a ball, in the stand. Add some sexy, skimpily clad women to jump up and down and sideways … still boring.

No amount of cheerleading at the funeral can bring the dead man back to life for me. At least for me. So I what do I do? I don’t write letters to the editor complaining about the women’s uniform. I don’t appeal to the politicians to watch the cheerleaders ever more closely. I don’t .. well you get it. I don’t watch the game!

If only we were a football loving nation. My guess is that cricket is the only game that the Sports Ministry does not sponsor or minister. So until then ….. entertain yourselves by watching naked women while cricket happens!