Even Dolly Parton's Manager Was Surprised By Her Show-Stopping Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Outfit

Dolly Parton's manager, Danny Nozell, revealed to Billboard that the singer's cheerleader-inspired outfit was entirely her idea. Nozell said that his client waited until she was minutes away from her cue to walk onstage to show her team her completed halftime look. "When she came out, myself, the security, and my staff fainted," Nozell recalled. 

Nozell said he couldn't tell Parton apart from the three dozen cheerleaders who danced on the field in front of the stage, and he's right. Dolly Parton perfectly transformed herself, complete with white shorts, an attached belt, a royal blue, long-sleeve tie top, and a fringed crop vest decked with the Cowboys' stars. Of course, the singer added her signature Dolly flair with bejeweled pantyhose and a sheer bodysuit with a silver star where her navel would be.

And in her typical Dolly fashion, the singer didn't take herself too seriously while dressed up as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. While singing Queen's "We Are the Champions," she made a tongue-in-cheek gesture toward her outfit while she sang the lyric, "And bad mistakes, I've made a few." Still, Nozell — and the rest of the world — wouldn't classify her ensemble as a flub. "That is the genius of Dolly," Nozell told Billboard. "People are still talking about it."