re: Need a business idea? Start a cheer competition.

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Like what the frick are you cheering for? Just to be loud?

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There is no cheering. They don’t cheer. Yet it’s called all-star cheer.
My daughter did it for 10 years. If I ever put pen to paper to figure out how much I spent, I’d probably want to commit suicide. There was also 5 years of school cheer which was another huge expense. The private tumbling lessons with a gymnastics tumbling bc the competitive tumbling coaches weren’t good enough weren’t cheap. I never want to know how much I spent.

PS - She now gives private lessons for little kids, does choreography for schools, and judges tryouts and makes a pretty penny. So I guess it wasn’t all for naught.

Company called varsity, HQ in Memphis, owned by Bain Capital. They basically consolidated every aspect of organized cheerleading into a massive monopoly/racket.