A couple of cheerleaders for the NFL's Carolina Panthers may have broken the cardinal rule of bar bathroom behavior early Sunday morning when police said patrons complained the two had sex in the john at Banana Joe's, a club in downtown Tampa.

The cardinal rule of saloon john etiquette is thou shalt not dawdle. Why? Because there are other people waiting to get in, and they don't care how much fun you're having in there.

So you don't engage in activities in the bathroom that can take up to 20 minutes (OK, so eight), not including cigarette. It's just not considerate.

"There was general yelling going on in the bathroom, and this woman was standing there and got punched in the eye," said Laura McElroy, a spokeswoman for the Tampa police.

It's not that I mind women who enjoy each other's company enjoying each other's company. It's just that there's a time and a place for everything, and a public bathroom in a bar is not that place. Unless there's nobody outside the door hollering, "Did somebody die in there?"

Why didn't these two TopCats just go down the road to Motel 4? That would have solved the problem. Hey, if this had been a classy organization like the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, this wouldn't have happened. I'm betting they would have booked a room at the Hilton. The Panthers didn't return calls.

It's funny how this sort of stuff happens in bars with funny names like Banana Joe's, isn't it? You wouldn't expect this to occur in Esmerelda's Tea Room, would you?

We shouldn't be surprised that NFL cheerleaders would be involved in this kind of fracas, though. Has an alleged NFL cheerleader ever uttered an actual cheer in the history of the league? They're not cheerleaders. They're drool leaders.

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