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Would never happen to me!
Would never happen to me!
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Very different season! It's one game for all the marbles! Both teams are on 2 game win streaks and nothing else matters except for this game.
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:shout:
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A whole lot of /-Thumbs-up::/ /-Thumbs-up::/ /-Thumbs-up::/ /-Thumbs-up::/ /-Thumbs-up::/ for this lady
Hespeler woman juggling work, family — and Ticats cheerleading — heads to Grey Cup
By Jeff Hicks
Waterloo Region Record
Jodie Anne Normore's Grey Cup suitcase is bursting.
"I took my whole life with me," she said.
Really? No piece of luggage is large enough to pack what the Hespeler resident happily carries. Her slight shoulders are sturdier than those of any hulking halfback.
Painter. Photographer. Business owner. Singer in a band. Single mom to two boys. Guardian angel to a niece touched by grief.
Normore is also a rookie Hamilton Ticats cheerleader bound for frigid Regina and Sunday's Canadian Football League title game.
Minus-20 or minus-2? Hardly matters. The four-letter word of the day will be cold. She's ready for whatever comes. She always is.
She'll wear three pairs of leg-warmers under her leg-warmers.
She'll be cheerleading in a Grey Goose jacket and fur-lined Go-Go boots.
At 28, she's the oldest on the squad.
She's grouped in with the kids, yet she gravitates toward the veterans.
"It's a different dynamic for me," Normore said. "Luckily, they're all so welcoming."
Sometimes she's quirky. Sometimes she blurts out something random.
The seams-out emotions of stepping onto the front cheerleading line earlier this year overtook her. She went into a perfect emotional spiral.
"I need a minute," she told her teammates. "I need a moment of glory, right now."
Normore is a grand artistic soul trapped encased in a model's lithe frame. It can be an overwhelming combination, like two linebackers colliding. She charges full-throttle into the orchestrated mayhem. For her, calories burn and disappear like punts fading into the frosty Saskatchewan night.
"I'm an artist, inside and out," she said.
So sometimes, she doesn't fit in.
Normore was an Argos cheerleader once but never made it to a Grey Cup. Toronto, Hamilton's hated rival, didn't agree with her one-beer-store-town Hespeler sensibilities, anyway. She's more small-town, like many of the Ontario women waving pompoms for the Ticats on Sunday, while Hedley struts like Jagger to the halftime show.
She left the Argos cheerleading team to have her boys, Sammy and Cole.
They're kindergartners now, all moppy hair and goofy grins.
She hugged them hard on Thursday as she sent them off to school high atop a Hespeler hill. Five days, she'll be gone. They think it's cool she's going on a plane. They'll try and catch a glimpse of mom on TV.
Halle will watch for Aunt Jodie too. She's nine. Last year, Halle's mom, Jodie's little sister, died suddenly. It appears Halle will soon join Jodie's cosy little family for good.
Why not? Jodie is a juggler extraordinaire.
She just keeps adding more pins and balls and keeps going. She confounds her younger cheerleading teammates like Ayr's Kim Schmidt, a 24-year-old University of Waterloo graduate who works for a local greenhouse.
"She's amazing," Schmidt said of Normore. "I honestly know how she juggles it all. I know it's tough for me to do it, and I don't have any children."
Or a Queen Street photography business specializing in taking everyday people and — with a little touch of glamour — turning them into fashion divas.
Or a new all-female alternative rock band to carry as a Jewel-style lead vocalist.
Normore has all that. Just more balls to keep in the air. But cheerleading may have to drop soon. Perhaps, this is her final gleeful moment of Glee.
Jodie came back to it because she wanted to be part of a team again. Running her own business can be lonely. She packed five new dresses to give to teammates this weekend. She had never worn them, anyway. She considers them family.
Normore craved the cheerleading camaraderie she basked in during her pompom days at the University of Guelph, where the Ticats played home games this season.
She also feared the clock. She's not stomping the football sidelines at St. Benedict high school any more. Normore turns 29 on Jan. 2.
"I really wanted to get in one last year of dance before I get old," she said.
One last dance in the night. One last cheer in the cold.
One last football prayer on the prairies.
Oskie-wee-wee. Oskie-waa-waa. Holy Mackinaw! C'mon Tigers ... Eat 'em, raw!
Jodie has one more item in her suitcase. Just a little glam for Sunday.
"Yellow pumps," she said. "Yellow shoes for when we win."
She's ready to tackle anything, including a victory party. Always is.
Hespeler woman juggling work, family — and Ticats cheerleading — heads to Grey Cup
By Jeff Hicks
Waterloo Region Record
Jodie Anne Normore's Grey Cup suitcase is bursting.
"I took my whole life with me," she said.
Really? No piece of luggage is large enough to pack what the Hespeler resident happily carries. Her slight shoulders are sturdier than those of any hulking halfback.
Painter. Photographer. Business owner. Singer in a band. Single mom to two boys. Guardian angel to a niece touched by grief.
Normore is also a rookie Hamilton Ticats cheerleader bound for frigid Regina and Sunday's Canadian Football League title game.
Minus-20 or minus-2? Hardly matters. The four-letter word of the day will be cold. She's ready for whatever comes. She always is.
She'll wear three pairs of leg-warmers under her leg-warmers.
She'll be cheerleading in a Grey Goose jacket and fur-lined Go-Go boots.
At 28, she's the oldest on the squad.
She's grouped in with the kids, yet she gravitates toward the veterans.
"It's a different dynamic for me," Normore said. "Luckily, they're all so welcoming."
Sometimes she's quirky. Sometimes she blurts out something random.
The seams-out emotions of stepping onto the front cheerleading line earlier this year overtook her. She went into a perfect emotional spiral.
"I need a minute," she told her teammates. "I need a moment of glory, right now."
Normore is a grand artistic soul trapped encased in a model's lithe frame. It can be an overwhelming combination, like two linebackers colliding. She charges full-throttle into the orchestrated mayhem. For her, calories burn and disappear like punts fading into the frosty Saskatchewan night.
"I'm an artist, inside and out," she said.
So sometimes, she doesn't fit in.
Normore was an Argos cheerleader once but never made it to a Grey Cup. Toronto, Hamilton's hated rival, didn't agree with her one-beer-store-town Hespeler sensibilities, anyway. She's more small-town, like many of the Ontario women waving pompoms for the Ticats on Sunday, while Hedley struts like Jagger to the halftime show.
She left the Argos cheerleading team to have her boys, Sammy and Cole.
They're kindergartners now, all moppy hair and goofy grins.
She hugged them hard on Thursday as she sent them off to school high atop a Hespeler hill. Five days, she'll be gone. They think it's cool she's going on a plane. They'll try and catch a glimpse of mom on TV.
Halle will watch for Aunt Jodie too. She's nine. Last year, Halle's mom, Jodie's little sister, died suddenly. It appears Halle will soon join Jodie's cosy little family for good.
Why not? Jodie is a juggler extraordinaire.
She just keeps adding more pins and balls and keeps going. She confounds her younger cheerleading teammates like Ayr's Kim Schmidt, a 24-year-old University of Waterloo graduate who works for a local greenhouse.
"She's amazing," Schmidt said of Normore. "I honestly know how she juggles it all. I know it's tough for me to do it, and I don't have any children."
Or a Queen Street photography business specializing in taking everyday people and — with a little touch of glamour — turning them into fashion divas.
Or a new all-female alternative rock band to carry as a Jewel-style lead vocalist.
Normore has all that. Just more balls to keep in the air. But cheerleading may have to drop soon. Perhaps, this is her final gleeful moment of Glee.
Jodie came back to it because she wanted to be part of a team again. Running her own business can be lonely. She packed five new dresses to give to teammates this weekend. She had never worn them, anyway. She considers them family.
Normore craved the cheerleading camaraderie she basked in during her pompom days at the University of Guelph, where the Ticats played home games this season.
She also feared the clock. She's not stomping the football sidelines at St. Benedict high school any more. Normore turns 29 on Jan. 2.
"I really wanted to get in one last year of dance before I get old," she said.
One last dance in the night. One last cheer in the cold.
One last football prayer on the prairies.
Oskie-wee-wee. Oskie-waa-waa. Holy Mackinaw! C'mon Tigers ... Eat 'em, raw!
Jodie has one more item in her suitcase. Just a little glam for Sunday.
"Yellow pumps," she said. "Yellow shoes for when we win."
She's ready to tackle anything, including a victory party. Always is.
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Hmmm.......Not a HOF sighting in awhile.
I wonder why,lol
I wonder why,lol
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Love the blonde.
You blame me?.
You blame me?.
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45-23?
Did I mention . . .
Saskatchewan rocks !!!
Did I mention . . .
Saskatchewan rocks !!!
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Damn! :don'twantto-see:/
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Congratulations to the Saskatchewan 'brokeback bareback' Roughriders!:biggrin2: Just kidding, Saskatchewan deserves to be called CHAMPIONS because they out played my Tiger Cats from the start to the finish. In fact, I was worried as the players were being introduced-The Tiger Cats came out show boating while the Roughriders just charged the field as one cohesive unit which said a lot.
Eastern Division Champions, Hamilton Tiger Cats played away from home and made it to the Grey Cup, wait til next year when they move into their new home!!!:wink2:
Eastern Division Champions, Hamilton Tiger Cats played away from home and made it to the Grey Cup, wait til next year when they move into their new home!!!:wink2:
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Thumbs and Penises! The stories that we like read about.
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I was on the phone with Kent Austin telling him what he should do! He should have listened to me!:wink2:
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Congratulations Champions!
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Actually I'm very sad, incredibly sad, a rub, tug and blow and go is exactly what I need!:biggrin2::wink2:
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