Referee asks cheerleaders to stop distracting players

Cheerleaders can be quite distracting. Take the recent college football game between Toledo and Central Michigan for example.

Leading 21-17 in the second half, Toledo drove deep into CMU territory looking to add on to its lead. And with the Rockets inside the 10-yard line, the head referee briefly halted play and made a rather strange announcement.

He asked for Central Michigan’s cheerleaders, who were standing behind the end zone, not to make noise in their own stadium so they didn’t disrupt the opposing team’s snap count.

Isn’t it part of a cheerleader’s job to encourage the crowd to get loud? That’s a weird one for sure.

Even with its cheerleaders muzzled by the ref, CMU managed to escape without allowing any points on that drive when Toledo kicker Jameson Vest missed a 21-yard attempt.

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