Your Chance to Shine: Grand Rapids Gold Launches ‘Dad Bod Squad’ Auditions

Cheerleaders have been a part of sports since 1898.

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Back then Johnny Campbell, a University of Minnesota student, led the first organized cheer during a football game.

Fast forward to today and cheerleading and dance teams are a very important part of going to many sporting events.

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A West Michigan team is looking for some help getting the crowd pumped up but not in the traditional way you might imagine with short skirts and pom poms.

How To Apply For The Grand Rapids Gold Dad Bod Squad

The Grand Rapids Gold posted on social media that they are taking applications for men who want to join the "Dad Bod Squad Dance Team".

If you want a chance to make this dance team you simply need to record yourself doing a 30-second dance routine to your favorite song and send the video here.

I love that the Gold are doing this!

Back when I first started in radio, I worked in Detroit at a sports station and the Pistons who already had a female dance team put out a call for men who might not look the part of a dancer but had the desire inside of them to try out for the  "Spare Tires".

We had so much fun getting to perform in front of a packed crowd at the old Palace of Auburn hills.

Maybe I should dust off my New Balances and record a video of my own.