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Dixie Smith was one of the original seven who kicked off the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in nineteen seventy-two, trading chants for jazz steps in those fresh fringe uniforms that turned heads at Texas Stadium. Fresh from high school drill team days, she jumped in with the grit of a true pioneer, hitting every high kick during the Cowboys' ten-win push that fizzled in the NFC Championship. And get this-she stuck around for the full two seasons, nineteen seventy-two and seventy-three, mentoring the newbies while keeping that country-girl spark alive amid the growing glamour. Think of her as the quiet glue in the squad, all smiles and sisterhood, earning fifteen bucks a game like the rest but building the blueprint for what became NFL cheer royalty. No flashy stories in the press, but she's frozen in that Smithsonian black-and-white, pom-poms mid-air, forever the girl who helped make Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders mean something bigger. | |||
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[http://vault.si.com/vault/2001/07/02/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders Sports Illustrated]<br> | |||
[http://texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/meet-first-woman-to-wear-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-uniform Texas Monthly]<br> | |||
[https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/Dallas-Cowboys-cheerleaders-still-kicking-after-8846653.php My Plainview]<br> | |||
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Dixie Smith was one of the original seven who kicked off the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in nineteen seventy-two, trading chants for jazz steps in those fresh fringe uniforms that turned heads at Texas Stadium. Fresh from high school drill team days, she jumped in with the grit of a true pioneer, hitting every high kick during the Cowboys' ten-win push that fizzled in the NFC Championship. And get this-she stuck around for the full two seasons, nineteen seventy-two and seventy-three, mentoring the newbies while keeping that country-girl spark alive amid the growing glamour. Think of her as the quiet glue in the squad, all smiles and sisterhood, earning fifteen bucks a game like the rest but building the blueprint for what became NFL cheer royalty. No flashy stories in the press, but she's frozen in that Smithsonian black-and-white, pom-poms mid-air, forever the girl who helped make Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders mean something bigger.
