BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH AND HOW IT SCREWS UP THE NFL

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  • rhonderoo
    rhonderoo Posts: 145 Member
    My Titans are 3-1 so far this year. If wearing pink gets them through October with Ryan Fitzpatrick at the helm, they should wear pink helmets, as well...

    The thing I hate is that companies have figured out pink is a great marketing tool, and may or may not be giving all that money to Breast Cancer research. "Think before you Pink" encourages education on where exactly the money goes.

    And not ball cancer, but prostrate cancer is getting some attention from athletes with the whole Movember, growing your beard out thing... :drinker:
  • faceoff4
    faceoff4 Posts: 1,599 Member
    It is awareness for a good cause...I have no issues with it at all and a lot of it is the player's choice I believe on how much pink they wear. Clearly they dont mind supporting the awareness, so why should we. I think its all good!
  • RN514
    RN514 Posts: 1,107 Member
    It is awareness for a good cause...I have no issues with it at all and a lot of it is the player's choice I believe on how much pink they wear. Clearly they dont mind supporting the awareness, so why should we. I think its all good!

    This is why we are friends. :) love your outlook!
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    What about prostate cancer awareness month? What colors should be worn?
  • raneylfrick
    raneylfrick Posts: 380 Member
    It's just his opinion, you guys.

    I happen to love the fact the the NFL does the pink jerseys because it DOES raise a lot of money during the month. Breast cancer is something that has greatly affected me.... I honestly do think it makes people aware. They see the jersey and they know exactly why it is pink.

    But, to each his own, right?
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    What about prostate cancer awareness month? What colors should be worn?

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/presidential-proclamation-national-prostate-cancer-awareness-month-2013

    Why the NFL didnt support the serious threat of prostate cancer is beyond me, but yes there is a month

    Oh no I lied...

    http://www.multivu.com/mnr/63352-nfl-and-urology-care-foundation-national-prostate-cancer-awareness-month
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    What about prostate cancer awareness month? What colors should be worn?

    No color. Just a Mo.

    http://us.movember.com/about/
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    So yes there is a awareness for a disease that only affects men, and you can believe if I was asked to wear a stupid color to support the men in my life I sure as hell would.

    But that's coming from a woman who shaved her head and raised money when her brother was diagnosed with skin cancer.
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    What about prostate cancer awareness month? What colors should be worn?

    Isn't that why sports teams have white outs at their games?
  • BeachGingerOnTheRocks
    BeachGingerOnTheRocks Posts: 3,927 Member
    First up, I lost my mother to breast cancer last year. So you can be assured that I wanted, and still want, a cure.

    But this awareness business is out of hand. It's become a way to companies (and yes, that includes the NFL) to exhibit their support for charity in the most visible way possible - and make more money as a result. When a charity is so over-the-top recognizable, it's going to vacuum up support from everything else. Does anyone really think so many businesses support breast cancer because it's truly an important issue to them, or is it because ischemic heart disease, lung cancer, stroke and lower respiratory diseases don't have such a recognizable logo and don't shift as much product?

    Breast cancer is a topic that triggers an emotional response. Sufferers are someone's mother, someone's grandmother. But heart disease kills more people than all cancers combined*. Lung cancer kills nearly five times as many people, and 50% more women than breast cancer**. Yet funding is $13,000+ per death by breast cancer, compared to $1,600 per death by lung cancer***.

    The focus on one highly emotional, highly visible disease is ridiculous, and of detriment to society as a whole.


    *CDC leading cause of death final 2010 data
    **2013 Cancer Facts & Figures - American Cancer Society
    ***NCI funding figures, 2006

    These statistics are skewed based on biases.

    Personally, I'd rather see more money go to childhood cancer research. I'm sure NFL players would wear any color to support that, too.



    The selfish person in me is grateful for the money that flows into breast cancer research. It saved my life and gave me access to one of the world's top surgical teams. That never would have happened without funding.

    Okay, so breast cancer doesn't kill as many women as lung cancer (which has a 9% survival rate after 5 years for women and 14% overall for men and women -- that is abysmal), but breast cancer affects far more women, 1 in 8.

    A better analogy would be the amount of money that is donated per person who is diagnosed, and not per person who dies of the disease. With breast cancers, doctors are approaching a 100% 5-year survival for Stage 1, 93% for Stage 2, and 72% for Stage 3. It drops to 22% for Stage 4, which very often means lung, bone and/or brain metastasis.* How did that happen? Funding and awareness.

    *American Cancer Society, Breast cancer survival rates, revised 10/02/13 http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/overviewguide/breast-cancer-overview-survival-rates

    This is better than just 2 years ago when the Stage 4 survival rate was 15%.

    I'd say the funding and awareness is saving a lot of women. A whole hell of a lot of women.
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
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  • CookNLift
    CookNLift Posts: 3,660 Member
    no it doesn;t
  • 2stepscloser
    2stepscloser Posts: 2,900 Member
    Liar! You love pink thongs and want to see the guys wearing pink jock straps too.
  • walleyclan1
    walleyclan1 Posts: 2,784 Member
    I think it would be better if all the money spent buying the pink accessories went directly to cancer research instead....
  • 43932452
    43932452 Posts: 7,246 Member
    I think it would be better if all the money spent buying the pink accessories went directly to cancer research instead....


    I completely agree!!
  • JenAndSome
    JenAndSome Posts: 1,893 Member
    I will be more polite than I have ever been in my life and just say that this thread is in really, really poor taste.
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    what color will they wear for testicular cancer month?... or maybe there will be one blue ball?
  • RhonndaJ
    RhonndaJ Posts: 1,615 Member
    Though I don't make a habit of expressing it because I understand that many people wear pink in support of a friend or loved one who has or had breast cancer and I've nothing against that, and I'm all for breast cancer awareness and research, but the fact that so many things go 'pink' for a single month in support I think is little more than lip service to look good to the public.

    It also bugs me that so much attention is given to one type of cancer, but I tend to be biased.
  • goalss4nika
    goalss4nika Posts: 529 Member
    :grumble:
  • goalss4nika
    goalss4nika Posts: 529 Member
    It is awareness for a good cause...I have no issues with it at all and a lot of it is the player's choice I believe on how much pink they wear. Clearly they dont mind supporting the awareness, so why should we. I think its all good!


    :flowerforyou:
  • Alliwan
    Alliwan Posts: 1,245 Member
    It is awareness for a good cause...I have no issues with it at all and a lot of it is the player's choice I believe on how much pink they wear. Clearly they dont mind supporting the awareness, so why should we. I think its all good!


    :flowerforyou:

    I agree! I hate the color pink but i wear it proudly when its for breast cancer. I was dx with breast cancer at the age of 33. it sucks, and everytime i see that little pink ribbon im reminded of how far ive come, not what i lost.

    breasts can be such a huge part of what makes a woman feel like a woman. I love the support of those that understand its not just about cancer, its about who you are as a woman, mom, wife, friend, person and your self esteem.
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  • TMLPatrick
    TMLPatrick Posts: 558 Member
    I think it is a terrible shame that corporate-esque "charities" have pitted cancer-types against each other. It might be better for everyone if research money was spent fighting a variety of different diseases.
  • kellch
    kellch Posts: 7,849 Member
    Mr. Desimus Meridius, I don't know you. But to my recollection I generally find your posts amusing. This seems like an odd stance to take. Its has absolutely no effect on your life or the quality of the NFL.

    Then you would be ok with your team going pink all the time, right?

    I'm a bucs fan, so as long they don't wear those god awful creamsicle uni's they can do whatever the frack they want.

    And yes, if they want to wear pink wristbands the whole year I don't care...If an mlb player wants to use a pink bat the whole year i don't care. I more find it unbelievable that players can't go outside of the strict uniform guidelines if they wanted to represent something else.

    No, I'm talking all pink. If pink doesn't bother you then you should be ok with them wearing solid pink. If not, then you hate boobies and you want women to die of breast cancer.

    And anyone that knows Max, knows he would do anything to save boobies :smokin: ...LOL
  • kellch
    kellch Posts: 7,849 Member
    Can we please stop calling them "boobies"? I hate that so much. :angry:

    Ok... Titties.

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  • JennOnTheRocks
    JennOnTheRocks Posts: 112
    I love boobies but I'm sick of pink on the uniforms of NFL teams for the entire month of October. One week, maybe.

    Doing it all month does not raise my awaremess, mostly just pisses me off.

    Men, we need to find some ball cancer cause to plaster all over a women's thing for an entire month.

    As a woman and a cancer survivor, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE with you. It is awesome that the NFL wants to support the cause but god damn it is ugly. Plain and simple. I say, support the cause with a pink ribbon on the back of the helmet (like they do every other cause/memorial).
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I love boobies but I'm sick of pink on the uniforms of NFL teams for the entire month of October. One week, maybe.

    Doing it all month does not raise my awaremess, mostly just pisses me off.

    Men, we need to find some ball cancer cause to plaster all over a women's thing for an entire month.

    Are you aware that men can get breast cancer too?

    Are all the men who play in the NFL aware of this?

    Because IMO breast cancer awareness campaigns that involve men, but don't point out that men can also get breast cancer, is utterly failing.

    BTW my granddad died of breast cancer. And it's actually more dangerous in men because men don't have breasts. They have an embryonic version of the same tissue, which can become cancerous, and it basically spreads straight to the muscles in the chest, whereas in women the cancer has to be really advanced to spread that far. It's not as rare as you'd think, if I recall correctly, 1 in 100 cases of breast cancer are in men.

    Also, re "ball cancer" - testicular cancer is something that men should be aware of, i.e. know the warning signs and get it checked out early on. Again, involving men in campaigns for women's cancers without making men aware of the risk of men's cancers, doesn't seem quite right to me.
  • chezzamanezza
    chezzamanezza Posts: 48
    I envy you. If the colour of an NFL players kit is all you have to worry about it life you are very very lucky.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
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  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    I think what offends me the most about the OP is the implication that women don't watch football. :angry:

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