NFL Divisional Round Cheerleader Preview: Packers vs. Cardinals

OK, we all need to get on board here and make sure the Cardinals win this game. While I appreciate the ability to spend a lot of time on the Cards cheerleaders, I hate a one-sided cheerleader preview. Because it's really not much of a preview.

But I really do like having the opportunity to spend extra time on the Cardinals cheerleaders. Somehow they just keep reloading every single year. For a franchise that is relatively new to winning on the field, their cheer squad has been "winning" for years!

NFL Divisional Round Cheerleader Preview: Chiefs vs. Patriots

This is EXACTLY what I didn't want for my Chiefs. Sure they've won 11 games in a row and are the hottest team in the NFL right. That's great and usually would bode well in a match-up with a team that ended the season 3-4.

But the New England Patriots just do not lose at home in the playoffs. It happens about as often as a Loch Ness monster sighting. So excuse me if I don't have a ton of confidence that my team can walk into Foxboro and escape with a victory.

But at least both teams have top notch cheer squads for me to research as I prepare for the game. For that, at least, I am quite thankful.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

The Raptors Dance Pak Shows Us How They do Christmas in Canada

We've had a few posts memorializing how professional cheerleaders and dancers celebrated Christmas this year, but somehow we never made it across the border into Canada to check out how our neighbors to the north celebrate Christmas cheerleader style.

Fortunately I found these pictures of the Toronto Raptors Dance Pak from their Christmas-themed game and determined that they Christmas just like we do. With Santa-style uniforms and plenty of fuzzy white trim. I knew I could count on the Dance Pak to bring the Christmas spirit in the Great White North!

The New York Jets Flight Crew Crushed Their Christmas Uniforms

I know we are well into the new year and Christmas is becoming a distant memory, but I don't really care. I have more pictures of cheerleaders in their Christmas attire and I am going to share them. And you are going to like them (please)!

These pictures of the Flight Crew actually came to use from our pal Michael that has donated some pictures to the cause in the past. Thank God for loyal readers to love to share their pictures!

LA Kings Ice Crew Hottie Meagan is an Animal Lover

We have more than 40 posts on Pro Cheer Heaven devoted to the LA Kings Ice Crew, yet somehow we've never done an actual feature on one their members before. How is that even possible? I feel like we should have done like a dozen features on the Kings' girls by now.

But in an effort to remedy this massive flaw in our your favorite pro cheerleader blog I contacted 2nd year Ice Crew member Meagan (we shared her profile video back in July) and asked if she would be interested. Thank God she said yes!

Meagan is a recent graduate of UC Davis with a degree in Animal Science. Her biggest passion is, as you might have guessed, animals. She is a huge proponent of animal adoption and rescue and thinks people just don't know how easy and gratifying it is to rescue an animal. Her goal is to find a job in an animal-related field soon.

Growing up Meagan spent her time riding motorcycles, wakeboarding and competitively figuring skating. But she had to trade in those figure skates for the hockey skates once she joined the Kings Ice Crew. I think we can all agree that was a pretty amazing trade.

If you want to follow Meagan on social media (and maybe ask her some questions about rescuing/adopting an animal), you find her on Twitter and Instagram.

NFL Wild Card Cheerleader Preview: Redskins vs. Packers

Our last NFL Wild Card cheerleader preview of the weekend could be considered a little bit of a letdown if you don't have the right mindset about things. Just like yesterday's preview of the Steelers/Bengals game, only one of the teams in today's late game actually has cheerleaders. And while that would normally chap my hide, I'm OK with it today.

That's because the cheer squad for today's game is the First Ladies of Football. The wonderfully named Washington Redskins cheerleaders are absolutely NFL cheer royalty, and any chance I get to talk about them makes me happy. And when they are paired against a team without cheerleaders at all, then I'm all in on the Redskins bandwagon.

NFL Wild Card Cheerleader Preview: Seahawks vs. Vikings

Congratulations to the Minnesota Vikings for winning the NFC North for the first time since 2012 and were promptly rewarded with a match-up with the back-to-back NFC champion Seattle Seahawks. Doesn't seem like much of a reward for winning a conference title. But that is way the cookie crumbles, I guess.

On the plus side for all of us, the Vikings and Seahawks cheerleaders are both world class and give us a wonderful playoff game cheerleader preview. Which won't necessarily be the case a little later in the day today.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

MINNESOTA VIKINGS