Los Angeles Rams' male cheerleaders make NFL history

Steve Gardner | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Men make history as first Super Bowl cheerleaders Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies will be the first male cheerleaders in history to appear at the Super Bowl.

For the first time, an NFL team will have men as part of its official spirit squad.

Quinton Peron and Napoleon Jinnies, named to the Los Angeles Rams squad this week, will be the first ones to perform the same routine as the female dancers. The Baltimore Ravens and Indianapolis Colts have men who perform stunts with female cheerleaders, but don't dance.

Peron and Jinnies are both classically trained dancers and have been performing their entire lives.

But what made them take this groundbreaking step?

"I thought, 'Why not me? Why can't I do this?' " Peron said in an interview Wednesday on ABC-TV's Good Morning America.

Congratulations to our 2018 Los Angeles Rams Cheerleaders! pic.twitter.com/gYlXtC0BOd — Rams Cheerleaders (@LARamsCheer) March 26, 2018

The men were among the 76 finalists chosen for the 40-person squad. Jinnies said the auditions were unlike any he's ever been through before.

"This one was about three weeks long and we had a bunch of rehearsals in between and an extensive interview process, but it was really humbling and amazing to be invited every time you came back," he said.