Dixie Smith
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (2)
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.
