Meet the 5 Out Rams Cheerleaders at Today’s Super Bowl

Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies made Super Bowl history in 2019 as big game’s first out cheerleaders, so the Rams added three more for 2022!

There remains only one game left to play in the 2021-22 season of the National Football League, and there are plenty of big storylines on the field.

After 12 frustrating seasons with the miserable Detroit Lions, quarterback Matthew Stafford now has three playoff wins in his first season with the L.A. Rams after his victory of the hated San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game. Second-year sensation Joe Burrows came back from a devastating knee injury and a somewhat porous offensive line to lead the perennial never-good-enough Cincinnati Bengals to the AFC championship.

While these are stirring stories to be written on the field of So-Fi Stadium today, there's also a very important story taking place on the side of today's Super Bowl.

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The Veterans

When the Rams take the field against the Bengals in today's game, they'll be cheered on by the two veteran out cheerleaders Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies. The pair made history in 2019 when they became the first male cheerleaders in the National Football League's history to cheer at the Super Bowl. Perhaps even more significant, however, was the fact that both did so as openly gay men, having cheered on the Rams all the way to the Super Bowl in their very first season with the team!

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Bring on the Rookies!

Peron and Jinnies are more than ready for their second Super Bowl, especially since they'll now be joined by three other out cheerleaders. Edwin Diaz, Brendan Ryan, and Jose Capetillo are all in their rookie season as Rams cheerleaders. They will have to perform admirably to live up to the exacting standards of sideline athleticism, enthusiasm, and support set by Peron and Jinnies, but we these three appear ready to mee that challenge.

"It's the biggest badge of honor. I feel like this is the dream team," Peron told OutSportsFriday. "We have so much representation and diversity on this team, and we're so inclusive. Also, who gets to say they've been to two Super Bowls in four years? Not many people can say that."

You've already met Jinnies and Peron, so keep scrolling to meet the rest of the out Rams cheerleaders.

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Eswinn Diaz

Diaz is an entertainer from Long Beach, California. He has some sage words of advice for kids facing bullying at school and elsewhere.

"Don't give up, don't let the bullies put you down because one day you will shine and do what you love without feeling like you don't belong."

Sadly, Diaz loves pineapple on pizza.

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Brendan Ryan

Ryan still can't believe he's going to cheer on the Rams in the Super Bowl.

"I still pinch myself," Brendan told OutSports. "I remember watching Quinton and Napoleon on 'Good Morning America,' and now they're sleeping over at our house in between practice. I get to call these men who were my idols my best friends now. It still feels so surreal."

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Jose Capetillo

Capetillo knows he will be taking the field on Sunday not just for the Rams, but also for all the LGBTQ+ kids looking up to him.

"It's a really great feeling to become the representation I wanted so badly as a kid," Capetillo told OutSports. "When I'm there on the field, on the stage, where I am performing, I'm doing it for myself and my younger self, but I'm also doing it for the kids like me who so desperately wanted to see themselves represented somewhere in a space where they so badly wanted to be."

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