In throwing the switch on this inaugural year for the NFL Cheerleader Rankings, I thought we’d begin with the first team on the Packers’ schedule with a dedicated skin squad.

Very unfortunately, the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders took a step backward in 2009 when the website they used to have, a smokin’ hot, flash-driven site with every woman in a black bikini, scrolling along the top of the page like a sushi conveyor, was replaced with a bland, boiler-plate site that you could probably pick up at TemplateMonster for fifteen bucks.  This coupled with no calendar and limited photos and the Ben-Gals are dropping in the power rankings like an erection when your parents walk in the room.

But they do have a chemical engineer on the team as well as a future PhD in cell biology (brainy flesh peddlers always get a rise out of me), and they do reach out to the community with a junior cheerleader program.  Costumes are good, though more skin is always going to win.

My top 2 on the Ben-Gals?  Tara Willson (the cell biologist) and Maria, who apparently goes by one name only (both pictured at right).  Congrats, ladies! You are the hottest things in Cincinnati.

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