The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders traded practice fields for a concert stage last Friday, joining country singer Megan Moroney onstage at American Airlines Center for a performance of her hit “Am I Okay?” The squad's cameo came in the middle of Moroney's sold-out Cloud 9 Tour stop in Victory Park, turning a routine arena show into a crossover moment for two of North Texas's biggest pop-culture exports.
Moroney performed the song with the cheerleaders in a custom Cowboys-themed white dress trimmed with blue and silver star accents, matching the squad's signature look, according to Wide Open Country. She kept the outfit on for the remainder of her headlining set. The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders later shared photos and behind-the-scenes footage from the night, writing “Head in the pink country clouds last night” and “Best day ever with our girl, @megmoroney!” as reported by Dallas News. Moroney posted her own photos from the show and wrote “God bless the girls.”
A Tour Stop Timed to a Chart-Topping Year
The August 14 show landed during Moroney's biggest commercial run yet. Her third studio album, *Cloud 9*, released May 15 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 147,000 equivalent album units, including 78,000 in pure sales, according to 106.9 The Ranch. That made it her first all-genre chart-topper and the first country album by a woman to reach No. 1 since Beyoncé's *Cowboy Carter* in April 2024. It marked a rapid climb for Moroney, whose prior albums peaked at No. 9 with *Am I Okay?* in 2024 and No. 38 with *Lucky* in 2023.
“Am I Okay?,” co-written by Moroney with Jessie Jo Dillon and Luke Laird, shipped to country radio on August 26, 2024, as the lead single from that second album, per Wikipedia. The upbeat song, about the unfamiliar feeling of being in a healthy relationship, has become enough of a staple of her live sets that it was the one chosen for the cheerleaders' cameo. The Dallas date fell within the Cloud 9 Tour, a 49-date global arena run produced by AEG Presents that kicked off in May in Columbus, Ohio, with U.S. support from JP Saxe and Solon Holt, and the tour concludes in October in Belfast, Northern Ireland after its European leg.
Not the Squad's First Arena Crossover
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders appearing alongside touring musicians isn't without precedent at the same venue. The squad previously joined Queen + Adam Lambert onstage at American Airlines Center in July 2019 for a surprise performance that took months of planning between DCC leadership and the tour's management, according to the Official Site of the Dallas Cowboys. That collaboration reportedly grew out of DCC Senior Director Kelli Finglass's own fascination with the group after watching the film *Bohemian Rhapsody*.
The cheerleaders' visibility has only grown since then. Netflix released Season 3 of *America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders* on June 16, documenting the 2025-26 squad tryouts in which 30 returning veterans competed against newcomers for 36 roster spots, leaving only six openings for new candidates. The docuseries, which succeeded CMT's long-running *Making the Team*, earned a 2025 Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program and won the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Sports Documentary, per the Official Site of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. The organization has also performed on 87 USO tours globally. Hoodline previously reported on one prominent squad member's exit from the show, when a former DCC member landed a Broadway lead.
Cheerleaders Now Turning to Football Season
The squad's stage time with Moroney doubled as a warm-up for their day job. American Airlines Center, located in Victory Park and holding up to 21,000 fans for concerts, opened in July 2001 at a cost of $420 million and was named one of the top Central U.S. live music arenas by Billboard Boxscore in February 2026. The cheerleaders are now preparing for the Cowboys' season at home after the team opened its preseason in Seattle; they'll perform at the franchise's only home preseason game of 2026 on August 28 against the New Orleans Saints, and the Cowboys open their regular season at home against the Washington Commanders on September 20.
The cheerleaders' live entertainment ambitions have also extended beyond gamedays this year. In spring 2026, the squad ran “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders LIVE!,” a nine-show regional theater tour across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas produced by Timeline Touring, which featured onstage solo auditions where fans helped vote on candidates advancing to final team tryouts in Frisco. Moroney, meanwhile, has kept building her country-music résumé off the road: she's featured on Kenny Chesney's upcoming album *Silver Sands Marina*, due September 25, on the duet “It Just Got Weird,” after Chesney said Moroney personally advocated to join the track, according to American Songwriter. Chesney has served as a mentor to Moroney throughout her touring career.
