Leaders and Breasts: Michigan players & coaches to don pink gear Saturday
From the Michigan twitter account.
I remember that article that exposed the NFL's pink gear sales.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:55 AM ^
I know at least one local business owner who wanted to do a fundraising event with Komen but decided to just do it herself when it became clear that the Komenites were too difficult to work with and generally behaved like total asswipes.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:08 PM ^
We are doing "breast cancer awareness" at my work on Fridays this month, and all this means is that we get free Safeway pastries made with artificial ingredients and are encouraged to wear a pink shirt. I really do not see how this does anything more than make people think they are doing something when they are not. I'm pretty sure everyone is aware of breast cancer by now.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:38 PM ^
October 18th, 2013 at 11:30 AM ^
Something tells me all of our muckrakers finding fault with this are really just not comfortable with pink on a football field.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:32 AM ^
October 18th, 2013 at 11:32 AM ^
We recoil at yet another instance of crumbs being thrown from the table of an extraordinarily successfull enterprise (the NFL in this case) under the guise of DOING LOTS OF GOOD.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:33 AM ^
Dig in to the issue more on your own then. Afterwards, if you think it's an objection to color scheme, so be it.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:33 AM ^
as an awareness campaign, november is diabetes month, a disease that is often largely preventable with exercise and diet, affects 8% of all americans (26,000,000) and has about 100 times as many new diagnoses each year as breast cancer, 1.9m to 23k.
also, having diabetes makes you more prone to impotence and having a dick (or vagina) that oozes grainy pus. there is your psa, walk more, eat better, drink less, don't get oozing genitals
football sponsored by beer, cars and junk food, not gonna happen. just hang out at buffalo wild wings all day, drive your truck home and eat some taco bell with dorito shells.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:39 AM ^
You just described my life....Kinda creeped out...
October 18th, 2013 at 12:07 PM ^
October 18th, 2013 at 5:19 PM ^
Diabeetus
October 18th, 2013 at 1:22 PM ^
It is about the money... I really think the NFL trying to market itself more to women and using Pink October as an excuse to do that. For the record, I'm not against marketing the NFL to women, I just don't like them doing so in the guise of breast cancer awareness.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:35 AM ^
Am I allowed to say I'm sick of this stupid-ass gimmick?
October 18th, 2013 at 12:42 PM ^
and I have boobs, so my opinion counts extra.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:50 PM ^
I feel the need to point out that men can get breast cancer.
October 18th, 2013 at 1:03 PM ^
then your opinion counts extra too. Paint with all the colors of the wind.
Edited to add: I hate you a little for "accidentally" BQ-ing. Which is to say, congratulations on being awesome.
October 18th, 2013 at 1:04 PM ^
I have moobs.
October 18th, 2013 at 3:29 PM ^
so Al Borges DOES read this blog!!!! Get the guys to the line quicker this week Al
October 18th, 2013 at 3:44 PM ^
is Robert Paulson
October 18th, 2013 at 11:42 AM ^
I don't have time to do this since I'm at work, but can someone go on the White House's website and start a petition to end pink/BC awareness on the football field? I think we can get enough votes for the issue to be addressed.
Also, let's send the petition to DB, and inundate his inbox.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:46 AM ^
1) No politics
2) Pretty sure that's really, really, really, hilariously unconstitutional.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:56 AM ^
He could just lobby within the Freemasons to have it stopped.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:44 PM ^
1) It's not politics, it's just PR to let everyone know this era has had enough breast cancer awareness on the football field (and life in general).
2) Again, you are correct, but it's just a free platform for national exposure. I doubt it would seriously get done, but I couldn't come up with a better way.
Sigh... I guess I'll just bitch at the TV and on message boards as always. Pink is probably here to stay.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:46 AM ^
PINK HELMETS!
Oh that was Oregon. How are we supposed to start running manball in pink?
October 18th, 2013 at 1:11 PM ^
by far, thanks.
Another reason to return to an upvote system!
October 18th, 2013 at 2:17 PM ^
That's racist.
October 18th, 2013 at 11:57 AM ^
I don't understand the article. Not a lot of money from NFL gear sales go to the American Cancer Society, so let's get rid of it? 100% of auctioned gear proceeds goes to the American Cancer Society (where the author laments that only around 70% of it is spent on actually finding a cure, which is the business of the American Cancer Society and not the fault of the NFL, as the author implies).
October 18th, 2013 at 11:59 AM ^
Is that the NFL used the pink stuff primarily as a marketing tool and only secondarily as a charity effort (and only to the amount to be able to plausibly argue they were being philanthropic), and they give the money to Komen, which... shall we say... suuuucks.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:05 PM ^
I get that, but the NFL has said (maybe they're lying?) that they don't actually profit from the pink gear they sell, their return goes into running Breast Cancer Awareness month. I'm not sure this is much different than many charitable organizations, which see sky-high administrative costs (salaries, etc.) and then have to re-invest donations into additional fundraising mechanisms, leaving little (or a lot less than we would like) to the actual cause.
Though overall, I suppose I agree. My issue is with the NFL being singled out whereas this is not unique at all to the NFL. We don't really need more awareness, we need cures and solutions.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:08 PM ^
They sell it through the NFL Store and other retailers too. Per Business Insider, 8.1% of the proceeds from those sales go to cancer research. The NFL often takes 50%.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:02 PM ^
I say we get rid of cancer all together, I mean really can you guys really name one time that cancer has been beneficial.
The question is if we get rid of cancer what disease do we bring in to replace it?
I know there are some big names out there I read somewhere that Michigan was Ebola's dream job.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:11 PM ^
October 18th, 2013 at 12:15 PM ^
has ties here. Malaria has also shown some interest.
October 18th, 2013 at 1:09 PM ^
Malaria is a warm-weather disease. Its style will never work here.
October 18th, 2013 at 1:18 PM ^
October 18th, 2013 at 1:51 PM ^
is SC is going to shell out big money for West Nile. Screw it. Let's just get SARS. Been out of the game for a while, but we could bring it in for cheap and you know it is available.
October 18th, 2013 at 3:14 PM ^
Ebola.
October 18th, 2013 at 8:58 PM ^
COME BACK. ONE YEAR!
October 18th, 2013 at 1:51 PM ^
I don't think diabetes helps us at all in this situation too old school. See the problem with this style of cancer is that it keeps attacking the same cells. The doctors pack the box with surgery, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy and what does cancer do? Keeps right on attacking the same cells. Why not a quick hitter to the lung or bubble screen to the colon?
October 18th, 2013 at 3:56 PM ^
It's clear that we want to break through the glass ceiling, as a program. That means air it out. That means Avian Bird Flu. We know it's effective, and it really helps us with recruiting qb's and wr's. And guys who just want to be awesome.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:00 PM ^
I think I'm going to end up on my company's internet watchlist for clicking on a link that has breasts in the title
October 18th, 2013 at 12:06 PM ^
Anti-vax, politics, and now religion in the same thread.
And yet it will probably stay up because it's relevant and we're all too emotionally worn out to flame.
October 18th, 2013 at 12:13 PM ^
the urge to flame on like 3 occassions in this thread, but you're right, I'm just like "whatever, I don't have the energy for this."
October 18th, 2013 at 12:52 PM ^
Really guy?
I kind of posted this picture because of the big pink wristband. Which is what the thread is about, and what the players will be wearing.
The GBGB one is just there.
October 18th, 2013 at 1:44 PM ^