There was something very unsettling about all of the teams donning pink for breast cancer awareness last year.
Can't we just enjoy the game any longer, without someone's agenda getting adopted by the league? Cancer is horrible, yes, I know. But making it front and center when we just want to get back to something we know and love? Cruel.
Where's the prostate cancer awareness push, which might be more appropriate for this particular game? (crickets)
That was pretty much the breaking point for me. I have NO PROBLEM with fighting Breast Cancer. I've lost a couple of relatives and a good friend to it. However, just getting in our faces about it with all of the pink crap on the field is just overboard to the max!
....Do we really NEED a campaign for "Breast Cancer Awareness" in the first place?? You would probably have a difficult time finding an adult over the age of 35 that hasn't known of SOMEONE who has had it. Virtually EVERYONE is very well AWARE of it.
If they are wanting to really help people with awareness, why not do something more obscure, like Testicular Cancer? Oh wait, that affects guys....NOT the target audience.(no one gives a damn about us)
How about Ovarian Cancer? It tends to be FAR more deadly than Breast Cancer, because by the time it's discovered, it has already spread to other Organs, in most cases - and that means near certain death. I knew a girl that died from it at the age of 22 years old. Noticed abdominal pain. Ovarian Cancer was the cause. Had already spread to Liver and Stomach. Dead about 7 weeks later.