Leaders and Breasts: Michigan to don adidas Pink gear
The WD equipment update with a special edition.
Since 2010 Michigan has been wearing pink gear for breast cancer awareness month.
This year they will be wearing gloves, wristbands AND their socks will feature pink for the first time ever.
Coaches gear-
In other equipment news, the UTL III gloves are up for sale now. 
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:40 AM ^
For what games will these be worn?
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:43 AM ^
the ones which will reduce us to screaming like little girls.
So betting on this week.
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:14 PM ^
Hey, maybe Brandon will get Pink to perform a recorded halftime show.
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:44 AM ^
Saturday only. Only Oct. home game was UTL III which was a special uniform game so the Pink Game couldn't be then. Michigan is 3-1 in their Pink Game. This will be the first time it'll be on the road (and probably the last).
October 22nd, 2014 at 1:29 PM ^
"Only Oct. home game was UTL III which was a special uniform game so the Pink Game couldn't be then"
I'd laugh at the priorities on display if this pink stunt had anything to do with actual cancer research, and wasn't just another marketing cash grab.
October 22nd, 2014 at 7:45 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 7:48 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:40 AM ^
Dumb.
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:36 PM ^
Of course I wanted breast cancer addressed and eradicated if possible, but that has nothing to do with football players wearing pink. It looks ridiculous and quite frankly I think is a distraction for the players. And on the road? In a rivalry game? Ugh.
October 22nd, 2014 at 3:49 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 9:12 PM ^
exactly.
and then teams like oregon and toledo turn it into a fashion.
the local high school by my house had pink jerseys for crying out loud. the high school. its just a little much if you ask me. people like to make a fashion statement. i would like to see the whole thing ended.
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:41 AM ^
I love breasts, but, *cringe.*
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:04 PM ^
I do not need a month or a game to appreciate them. I apprectiate them all year.
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:22 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:42 PM ^
Seeing as all this does anymore is raise awareness of the Susan G. Komen foundation, I'm ready for it to go away. That "charity" is less of a non-profit than the NCAA. And god forbid a woman not "win" their fight against cancer, because then they'll be dropped like a bad habit by those pink-product whoring assholes.
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^
Although susan g komen popularized the whole pink thing and is evil, pink has been embraced by the entire breast cancer (er, awareness) community and is not exclusive to susan g komen. It's still annoying because let's face it - most entities donate a tiny fraction of their earnings from smearing pink on everything and is mostly a marketing ploy.
Susan G Komen did act all pissy about any other organization using the whole "Something for the Cure", even going so far as slapping lawsuits on tiny local charities.
October 22nd, 2014 at 2:23 PM ^
You're being overly harsh and risk giving people the wrong impression. Their CEO gets $400k a year, less than a lot of cancer charities a tenth of its size, and they spend generally a smaller % of their money on administration stuff.
The thing they've come under fire for is they promote early screening a lot more than they give money to research. They specifically got on peoples' bad sides when they temporarily pulled funding to planned parenthood.
They are NOTHING like the NCAA, which is a massive federation of multi-$billion sports leagues that keeps up a pretense of being a nonprofit athletic organizing body for purposes of tax evasion. I agree that teams do the pink thing more to look like they're doing something than the actual doing of things. The charity it goes to, at least, is a B or B+.
October 22nd, 2014 at 3:45 PM ^
That foundation is a sham of a charity. The majority of their money goes to feeding themselves and their ad campaigns, which are designed to increase awareness of the foundation. They actively campaign to keep the pro leagues from working as closely with other cancer charities on any sort of large scale.
People are aware of breast cancer, so what exactly is their purpose anymore? Instead of spending millions of dollars on "awareness", why isn't that money being funneled into research facilities? I'm sure they needed they really needed that opulent palace of a headquarters in Dallas to continue raising money. I bet it was nothing like athletic departments sinking millions into facility upgrades simply to spend more of the piles of cash they're sitting on.
Of course, none of this gets to the truly repugnant practice of distancing themselves and providing little to no funding for hospice and end-of-life care for people who are unable to beat breast cancer.
But hey, lets just keep pooring money into a "charity" that has a good public image instead of actually looking for a cure for their specific cancer, or better yet cancers with much higher mortality rates.
October 22nd, 2014 at 8:03 PM ^
Not to mention their history of suing any mom & pop charity that uses the phrase "For the Cure."
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:50 PM ^
that's less money for the CEO than the head of Cornerstone Schools in Detroit, and this Komen Foundation does a ton more good.
You want to turn this into a debate on money well spent, let's talk other things. Add a cancer survivor (or two) to your family, and we can debate this foundation. Until then, take a better look at charter schools, the United Way, you pick.
October 23rd, 2014 at 9:58 AM ^
Add someone to your family that didn't survive breast cancer, witness how they were ostracisized by the Komen Foundation, and then we can talk.
Comparing the work of a marketing company like Komen to a school is hilarious. One of those things actually tries to improve the world, no matter the results. The other is simply attempting to brand themselves.
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^
The Susan G. Komen Foundation is a corporate branding machine that requires shockingly little of associated products. I'm all for the football program doing things to raise money for (breast) cancer research, but wearing pink is not the best way to do it. It's basically just the Brandon way to look like you're trying.
October 22nd, 2014 at 2:23 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 3:49 PM ^
Maybe we boys wouldn't be so testy about it if the Komen Foundation wasn't doing everything they can to prevent charities that focus on other forms of cancer from working with high profile organizations like the NFL and MLB. Because you know what, as a gender, we have several cancers that we'd like to see money put into research for, instead of that money being shunted to more ads for awareness of a disease that you would have had to lived under a rock for the last 15 years to not know about.
#ILOVEMYBALLS
#ILOVEMYPROSTATE
October 22nd, 2014 at 5:13 PM ^
I usually agree with what you have to say. This is not one of those times.
October 22nd, 2014 at 9:14 PM ^
did anyone say it was just about us boys?
October 22nd, 2014 at 10:36 PM ^
If it's not about boys, then why are the boys being forced to wear pink?
Time for this to go away.
October 22nd, 2014 at 8:18 PM ^
What if you've been affected by a different form of cancer - or simply a different type of malignant disease?
Yeah, breast cancer is bad, but sh*t, people die of other things, too. Many of them don't have a whole month devoted to them.
October 22nd, 2014 at 9:13 PM ^
well what if i have been affected by breast cancer (or god forbid another type of cancer)...and personally i think the whole pink thing is ridiculous and is done in poor taste at this point
October 22nd, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:42 AM ^
Anybody??!!
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:55 AM ^
Breast cancer research. Right?!?!?!?!
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
We support breast cancer???
October 22nd, 2014 at 1:14 PM ^
We support the AWARENESS. Breast cancer is real. Some people don't know that yet.
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:41 AM ^
At this point seeing pink on a football field just reminds me that it's October.
October 22nd, 2014 at 9:14 PM ^
this is sad but true.
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:46 AM ^
I'm extremely busy nowadays with class and my new job but I'd always make time for an equipment update.
You love me.
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:53 AM ^
You're definitely one of my favorite posters. Despite my giving you grief, I like posters that stick out from the crowd.
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:21 PM ^
so quit being so damn spicy, weiner.
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:54 AM ^
I actually do, the reaction of the posters who don't is hilarious when you keep coming back. I'm not one those guys who get bent out of shape b/c of UNIFORMZ. I actually like your passion and appreciate these updates. You keep doing you WD.
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:01 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:12 PM ^
well, hello there...
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:28 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 3:11 PM ^
I bet you could braid his chest hair.
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:43 AM ^
going to use the pink wrist band to help you pick up chicks??? :)... seriously though I would get one of the hats if they weren't so pink, i like the ones from years past that had pink accents...
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:46 AM ^
I would personally rather of had them wear it for the Penn State game then if they wear it on Saturday.
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:47 AM ^
Perhaps if we lose their might be a few "pink" slips coming Monday morning..
October 22nd, 2014 at 11:48 AM ^