Pink cancer pins

[Cobra]

Nothing against you guys but the whole pink thing is pretty stupid. If you want to help breast cancer then make a donation; don't rely on some company to make a donation, and don't just use some random thing which is pink and think that you are helping.

Kentucky Fried Chicken sells Buckets for the Cure. So if someone buys a bucket of fried chicken they are helping breast cancer, but when they eat the chicken that doesn't really do anything to prevent heart disease which is the #1 killer of women in the United States.

Then there is smoking which kills about 440,000 people every year is the US, while breast cancer is about 39,000 deaths per year. All of this time and effort is spent on trying to figure out how to stop breast cancer. We already know how to stop a number of diseases caused by one product but I don't see the NFL having a "Ban Cigarettes Month".

Breast cancer is a problem. The excessive use of pink is a fad. YouTube - Who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?

[JRutledge]

My crew has been wearing pink whistles for all games in October. Last year we had some wristbands that were pink as well for our first round playoff game as that was in October as well.

The best part of that playoff game was that we had a few women came up to us immediately after the game and want to have the pink wristbands and we gave them to them. They reason were cancer survivors and they wanted something that showed they survived this disease with these symbols. I was skeptical about wearing the wristbands before the game until that very moment. Considering that these were African-American Women and my aunt in 2001 died from this disease that made me very happy considering that African-American women die more than the vast public that is diagnosed with breast cancer. These symbols are about awareness of the disease and proceeds to research to that disease. We did not make a big issue of wearing them or even have it announced. Someone noticed and they wanted to be apart of that.

And at the end of the day it shows that we are human beings inside our stripes no matter how we do our job.

Peace

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Cobra

Nothing against you guys but the whole pink thing is pretty stupid. If you want to help breast cancer then make a donation; don't rely on some company to make a donation, and don't just use some random thing which is pink and think that you are helping.

The whole point is that awareness initiatives raise more money by encouraging others to donate as well.

Yep, we could just donate our game fee; or we could do that and wear a pink whistle (or shirt or whatever) and publicize our efforts, thus encouraging spectators to donate as well.