Cheerleaders are hot. Full body casts are not.
 

But the two go together more often than you might think. A new report found that cheerleading is by far the most dangerous sport for female athletes in high school and college. In fact, as many as two-thirds of severe school-sports injuries in the last 25 years can be blamed on cheerleading.
 

Time magazine took a look at the stats on the hazards of spirit:
 

New data from the University of North Carolina's National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (NCCSI) catalogs 67 fatal or life-threatening injuries due to cheerleading since 1982. By contrast, there were nine catastrophic injuries in gymnastics, the sport second most prone to such incidents. Indeed, cheerleaders suffered more injuries than all other school athletes combined — about 65% of severe injuries on the high school level and 67% on the college level. These findings confirm what many in this sport have worried about for years: as cheerleading has grown more competitive, athletes are willing to take greater risks.
 

Let’s be honest, the perils of pep are just unnecessary. Safety should come first.
 

Plus, guys don’t care about the tumbles and the tosses… Just give them skimpy clothes and sexy bodies and they’re set.