A Toddler’s Experience with the 49ers Gold Rush Cheerleaders

This article is dedicated to the San Francisco 49ers Gold Rush Cheerleaders.

A guest post by Ian Crimmins

It was October 18^th 1992 and I was all of two years old. My parents were huge San Francisco 49er fans. I think that they figured that there was no time like the present to send their son down that same path. With that in mind they bought tickets for the three of us to go to the 49ers/Falcons game.

Gold rush cheerleaders

A photo of the 49ers Gold Rush Cheerleaders

Now, I don’t remember much of the game. I think the 49ers won, but that was irrelevant to my two-year-old self. This is not to say I was not thoroughly engrossed in the football experience, I just focused on something other than the game. I loved the “sparkly girls,” as I named them. I asked my mom about them, “How did they get down on the field?” “What was their job?” “Why were they so pretty?” I had fallen in love with the “Gold Rush Squad.”

I was so in love that when the game ended and the Gold Rush Squad left, I cried. I cried and cried and cried. I complained to my mom that I wanted them to come back…right now. I cried myself to sleep and that was that.

From then on I watched the 49ers games in order to catch a glimpse of the “sparkly girls.” My trip to Candlestick did exactly what my parents had hoped it would, it ignited a passion.

As I became older I realized something, there was more to football than cheerleaders! In spite of this, I still hold a special place in my heart for the 49er cheerleaders, without them I probably would not be the football fan that I am today.

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