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From The Georgetown Independent & Free Press

Four Georgetown moms will be picking up their pom-poms for a Toronto Argonauts game Friday.

Michelle Armstrong, Kim Auty, Loretta Cordick and Diane Shipley-Kardash, all longtime Georgetown residents, will be part of the halftime show at the Argos-Winnipeg Blue Bombers game at 7 p.m.

The alumni cheerleaders are performing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Argo Sunshine Girls.

All four ladies are former Toronto Argo Cheerleaders. Shipley-Kardash was on the team from 1987-1991, Armstrong 1989-1992, Cordick 1990-1992 and Auty spent one year on the team in 1989 before cheering for the Ottawa Roughriders in 1990.

Fifty former Argo Cheerleaders will be dancing to These Boots are Made For Walking, choreographed by Linda Googh.

Argo Cheerleaders representing all 15 years they were a team (1978 to 1993) will be taking part in the celebration. The team started weekly rehearsals in late June to be ready for the game. Girls from as far away as Singapore, Los Angeles and Vancouver have flown in for rehearsals in Toronto.

The Canadian Football League game has a “retro” theme. There will be former Argo players at the game as well, wearing their old jerseys and the “All Time Argo” will be named to the Football Hall of Fame.

Shipley-Kardash, who was on the team the longest, says she still considers several of her former teammates her closest life-long friends and has traveled to Florida, Las Vegas and Los Angeles many times to reunite with former teammates.

The ladies are all married moms in their early forties who moved to Georgetown in the ’90’s from others parts of the GTA. Combined they have nine children, all students in Georgetown ranging in age from 7-15. Auty and Shipley-Kardash have sons who play football in Georgetown. All four have daughters dancing at local dance studios.

Auty and her husband Paul own Georgetown Chrysler while Shipley-Kardash, an actress, has performed with Georgetown Little Theatre and Georgetown Globe Productions.
Cordick recently returned to work part time at a local law firm and Armstrong is a teacher at Georgetown District High School.

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Found a couple of good reads today while at work actually.

The first one former NFL GM <>Ted Sundquist actually scouts the Browns/Cowboys matchup over at Pro Football Talk.

Cleveland must seize the initiative and take control of the ground game early. Jamal Lewis had a rebirth of sorts in 2007, rebounding for 1,304 yards over 15 games, but more importantly adding almost a full yard to his per-carry average. Behind Joe Thomas and Eric Steinbach on the left side, Lewis and the rest of the Browns’ running game pounded out over 5 yards per carry.

Cleveland needs to stay on schedule and keep the chains moving. Their offense was one of the more consistent and successful units when faced with short yardage on third down. The front five OL combination is more than capable of holding their own against a Dallas defensive line that was one of the League leaders in short yardage situations.

The second is from the Dallas Morning news, and it is Cowboys Coach Wade Phillips stating that he doesn’t believe the Browns current Dawg Pound environment is anything close to what the Browns had at the old stadium. You’d have to agree with him but I think that this comes from so many factors, including that the world is just a different place today.

The only route from the press box to the Municipal Stadium field was through the stands, so Phillips got face time with Cleveland’s crazy fans on more than a few occasions. He thinks the Dawg Pound has mellowed a bit since the the creatively named Cleveland Browns Stadium was built.

“I think they still have some semblance of it, but it’s not near what it used to be,” Phillips said. “They threw a lot more stuff back then.”

I think that this sunday will be one of those games in which he sees some Old Municipal on the Lake.

Last night I <>tweeted that my buddy was at the McKinley Hotel in Canton, Ohio with past and present NFL Hall of Fame members. It was a shirt and tie event. All night, he was calling or texting me with updates. The lucky bastard met John Madden, Jerry Jones, Joe Gibbs, Emmitt Smith, Jim Gray (oh well) and schmoozed with every NFL legend that was at the pre-induction event.

The event was all the booze you could drink and all the food you could eat. Apparently, the food looked so good that he didn’t even want to eat it.

All night I was asking him to ask some questions that a local in Canton would ask. Do the 2010 Browns have any hopes, and is Colt McCoy going to be worth a damn in their humble but Hall of Fame opinion.

The highlight of the night that he’s told me about thus far, was his exchange with Keyshawn Johnson. They were discussing the topic of Tim Tebow. Keyshawn said that he thinks Tebow sucks as an NFL QB prospect and he’ll be doing college football commentary in three years. He also feels that the Cleveland Browns are going to struggle mightily.

Take it FWIW.