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Page S19From§Eachthe afternoon edition — 27 October 2026

Fox Sports tracks cheerleader's split loyalty by boyfriend's stat line, skips the union she just won.

“Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders unionize after years of fighting for fair pay”, 23 October 2026 (Photo via The Guardian — the original report)

Hot Mic Moment

...they cut my live shot for this, and nobody upstairs minds. Column inches for a boyfriend's stat line, nothing for a labor union forming inside the building that employs him. A sports page that tracks a cheerleader's romance but skips her own union vote has already decided which workers get covered. Hand this story to the political desk before the next team tries the same trick.

Gushis side

GUS: This reporter has walked today's NFL wire, and the top story out of Dallas carries no fumble, no sack — only a matter of the heart.

GUS: Be that as it may, this reporter presses on.

GUS: And there stands the signature Dallas Cowboys cheerleader story of the season — a young woman's heart, torn by television.

GUS: Still, this reporter would note these are, at bottom, young ladies performing game-day pageantry, and a bargaining unit seems a heavy accessory for pom-poms.

Trudyher side

Gus, there's no split loyalty if the man wears the same star on his helmet she does. The headline says it plain: "Eagles boyfriend." He plays for Philadelphia. That's the whole reason anybody's watching this.

Jerry Jones hasn't coached a single down in thirty-some years of owning that team. He's the owner. He signs the checks — including, four days ago, a very different kind of check.

It isn't. On Friday, October 23rd, the Cowboys voluntarily recognized the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Association as the squad's own collective bargaining representative, closing out years the cheerleaders spent advocating for fair pay themselves. That ran four days before this one — and this one left it out entirely.

Those young ladies just finished negotiating their own contract after years of asking, and the team signed it without a fight. That's not heavy, that's overdue — and you've now mixed up two different headlines, sugar. Go lie down before your next live shot.

Settle down — nobody's handing you the political desk, and that was never meant for air. But the receipt backs you up anyway: the Guardian confirmed it was October 23rd, the Cowboys' own release called it voluntary recognition, after years the squad spent fighting for it themselves.

“They'll spend four hundred words on whose jersey she's rooting for and zero on the fact that the cheerleaders had to organize a union just to get fair pay in the first place. That's the whole con: romance sells papers, overdue wages don't. Those women still show up Sunday whether the column notices or not.”
Sal
“Look, a gossip column covers gossip, that's the format, nobody's burying anything — okay, technically the same outlet ran the actual union recognition four days earlier and then left it clean out of the roundup, but that's just an editorial call, that's not a pattern. Did I say pattern? Scratch that, strike it, I never said pattern.”
Chip

The receipts

Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders unionize after years of fighting for fair pay
The Guardianmainstream§

Team elects to voluntarily recognize union Squad members have advocated for better wages The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders have unionized, in a watershed labor victory that comes after years of fighting for fair pay. The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Association (DCCA) was voluntarily recognized by the Cowboys as the collective bargaining…

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