NEW HOPE, Miss. (WCBI) – It’s football season, and in talking about the players, you can’t forget the cheerleaders.

Cheer is now an Olympic sport, and it’s growing.

The country is seeing male cheerleaders in the National Football League, and even here at home.

The New Hope High School co-ed cheer team has seven males on the team, and a couple of them compete both on the mat and the field.

Micah and Tariq Butler are multi-sport athletes.

On Friday nights, the twins hit the gridiron to play football, but they are also part of the team on the sidelines.

“Ms. Robertson was my English teacher, and she came to me and asked. She thought it would be cool to have males on the team. She saw the other teams had some, and she was like, ‘Oh, that’d be fun. I was like, ‘Yeah, that would be fun.’ B

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