Posted on 10/03/2010 7:14:38 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
I don't like the pink chin straps, wistles, towels, etc. being used by the NFL this week. There are better ways to support cancer awareness. Why should breast cancer be singled out? Why not prostate cancer?
I sure miss Pete Rozelle as NFL Commissioner.
If I were an NFL player, I’d wear whatever the hell they told me to wear. Later, I’d shower, change into my street clothes, and go spend some of that fat NFL pay. They don’t care what the hell they have to wear.
That’s the other reason I am against the ever-enlarging Komen world-domination marketing scheme.
It sets a bad precedent.
I think this is what Vince would have said about all this.
http://www.entertonement.com/clips/vvvcxtytkl—What-the-hell-is-going-on-out-hereVince-Lombardi-
Grow up!
I almost feel ashamed to admit it, but that is the first thing I thought when I saw all the pink. There are a lot of cancers out there, and a lot of people who survived many cancers other than breast cancer, with none of the attention.
I’m not complaining, but I get the uneasy feeling that there are a lot of people making a lot of money off of breast cancer promotions that have absolutely nothing to do with breast or any other kind of cancer or paying to “find a cure”.
And before you flame me for my insensitivity, I am 12 years past my original non-breast cancer diagnosis in 1998, and 5 years past my second non-breast cancer diagnosis in 2005.
Are those special shoes or painted shoes. I would think NFL shoes are a couple hundred a pair.
Unless there was a donation by the manufacturers, They are having a windfall.
I do think that their support is a good thing, but what actually does “awareness” do? Are they pushing for donations? If so, I am unaware of it.
Keep your chin up vandy. There have been amazing strides taken in the fight against Breast Cancer.
a 10 year survivor, fighting right along your side.
Irish
Thats infantile.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
With the United Way deservedly losing popularity the league is looking for it’s next big high profile hook. The league has been into very public charitability for a long time, it’s good for business.
You have identified the problem with the ever-enlarging Komen pink mega-marketing campaign.
It is NOT based on CHOOSING to wear pink. It is not based on choosing the support breast cancer research.
The NFL players did not choose to wear those uniforms. I don’t choose to have my hamburgers in pink wrappers, or my medicine bottles with pink tops, or milk or cereal in pink cartons and the list goes on and on . . . pervading, it seems, literally almost every product that comes into my life, all blaring that I’ve now been enlisted in helping those companies “support” breast cancer awareness.
Yes, I could choose to stop buying the things I regularly buy, but that proves my point.
I have personal experience with breast cancer and I can tell you that I am sick of this campaign. I think it is becoming obnoxious and to the point that it is cheapening the whole enterprise. Hence you get garbage such as “I heart boobie” bracelets. This is because the Komen campaign has made it okay to treat breast cancer as if it’s nothing more than a rock band you become a fan of it.
Sorry, I’ve had it.
Thank you for putting this in perspective.
Look who else it strikes...
We have become such a touchy-feely, feel good society. And to think that we are fighting the struggle of our national survival. I wonder what color ribbon will be appropriate when the lights go out for the last time? Yellow?
If you check, you will see that it is an individual choice for NFL players to wear pink or not. They do it for their own reasons.
You really don’t understand chivalry.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Most of the rest of the men in this country have become feminized. The NFL might as well join the crowd.
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