Are cheerleaders/football players really...

Not every cheerleader or sports player is popular. It seems, though, that the more physically fit and attractive you are (as cheerleaders and jocks usually are) and the more you put yourself out there to other students like being out there on the football field, the more you're liked.



"I called her on the phone and she touched herself."

For the most part, yes. Obviously there are exceptions, but I find the way cliques work in movies and TV to be pretty close to my high school experience.

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I go to a small school, about 70 kids in a grade, and our clicks are nothing like the ones in the movies. The smartest kids in our school are the best athletes. Our Quizbowl team, which I am on, could kick our basketball team's @$$ in a fight, even though our basketball team is currently undefeated. Our football linemen are the most outgoing and definitely act almost gayish. But they are not gay. And up until last year our football team has been undefeated for 6 years. Most of our teachers are pretty cool and will get a pop for you out of the teachers lounge, if you give them the money for it. The "popular" kids at my school could sit and talk to the band kids and no one would think it was weird. Last year the quarterback of the football team dated our drum major. The band kids at my school are about the only thing that's similar to the high school teen comedies.

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

I was cheer captain my junior year and I was never popular

I'd call you a tool, but even they serve a purpose.

"...the 'popular' crowd in usa schools/colleges as normally portrayed in teen comedies?"

No, I think it is not. Although, to be fair, I was never popular in school. It still seems to be vastly distorted in movies. Everything from using 30 year-old actors to the prevalence of drugs and sexuality seems rather extreme for what the typical experience is. The worst distortions are all the movies about rich teenagers. There simply aren't that many rich persons in the USA.