The damn ref is wearing Pink Wristbands.......AAARRRGGHHH

MGLICKER

Yes I am a dinosaur, and old geezer, fart and codger.

But no way am I watching a football game, a mens football game, with the ref wearing Pink.

Flame away!

grote15

You sound ridiculous.

DIMEMAN

Sorry, I'm with the PINK here. We need a cure for this dreaded Cancer!

Come On Man!!!!!

MGLICKER

<< <i>Sorry, I'm with the PINK here. We need a cure for this dreaded Cancer!

Come On Man!!!!! >>



Oh sure, the pink wristbands will do it.

I recall sending a check to Jerry Lewis in 1973 to find a cure for MD........still waiting.

If spending 20% of GDP does not keep us healthy, wearing pink will not.

DIMEMAN

No, the pink will not cure it......it shows support.

MGLICKER

<< <i>No, the pink will not cure it......it shows support. >>



That it does. Perhaps they should also promote a colorectal cancer awareness month as it kills four times as many folks as breast cancer......about the same as lung cancer.

Less PC but why not share the free exposure.

DIMEMAN

Maybe every month should be all Cancer awareness month until be get rid of it forever!

MGLICKER

<< <i>Maybe every month should be all Cancer awareness month until be get rid of it forever! >>





Much of it is preventable, need to stress that part as well.

Dave99B

A pink football would be soooooooo cooooooool.

Cancer sucks!

Dave

WTCG

Then don't watch a football game. Go stick with golf.

WTCG

Real men who are secure about who they are have no problem wearing pink.

BLUEJAYWAY

Last week I believe I saw one ref. with a pink whistle.

ChiefsFan1st

<< <i>Real men who are secure about who they are have no problem wearing pink. >>


Now lets not get crazy here. If any guy is wearing pink for anything other than awareness, they should
not be secure in themselves. That statement reminds me of something I seen at a party many years ago.
I cant tell the story here, but I will say, it scared me then and it scares me now

bronco2078

Isn't the whole pink thing a scam? I thought I read somewhere that's one of those charities that collects a pile of money and only 20% makes its way to people they are supposedly helping?

on the other hand it could be the ice bucket charity






susan g komen CEO's salary is 684k

Oh hey whats up with the NFL caring about women's issues? They could help women by culling out some of the wife beaters they employ if they are feeling motivated in that way

MGLICKER

<< <i>Isn't the whole pink thing a scam? I thought I read somewhere that's one of those charities that collects a pile of money and only 20% makes its way to people they are supposedly helping?

on the other hand it could be the ice bucket charity






susan g komen CEO's salary is 684k

Oh hey whats up with the NFL caring about women's issues? They could help women by culling out some of the wife beaters they employ if they are feeling motivated in that way >>



First question I ask every charity that calls is "how much does the CEO earn".

Some of the numbers are astounding.

jeffcbay

The pink is less about the money, and more about raising awareness and getting checked.

bronco2078

Its very cynical is what it is.list of 50 worst charities

I find it very troubling that the people involved in these groups can sleep at night while people are dying from these diseases and they are laundering huge portions of the funds raised and in some cases less than 5% winds up with the needy.

On that list of 50 worst charities there at least 10 that are cancer related passing through very low percentages of money raised to victims .

telephoto1

The phrase you're searching for is "pink washing". This is the bandwagon feel-good fad of creating pink products, etc. under the guise of helping raise awareness and funds for breast cancer, but in reality is only a sales ploy in the end- where very little of the profit raised by the various pink product makers actually gets donated in most cases, and of that amount, even less actually makes it to those it was given to help.
Sue Komen lived and is buried here in town (Peoria IL) but the organization her sister started has been controversial of late... and in the eyes of many has morphed from a well-intentioned charity to what some consider a de facto for-profit concern. Sad.

lawnmowerman

Back in the 80's I rocked my pink pants and pink tie. Yes Don Johnson in Miami Vice was my idol lol!

Tabe

FYI, not one single dime raised by the NFL goes to cancer research. It all goes to "community awareness"-type programs.

Dboneesq

<< <i>Maybe every month should be all Cancer awareness month until we get rid of it forever! >>


Much of it is preventable, need to stress that part as well.
About 12,000 kids age 14 and under will be diagnosed with Cancer this year. How do you prevent that? More than 10% of those kids will DIE! Walk up to a parent who is told "YOUR CHILD HAS CANCER" and tell them that their child's cancer was preventable!

Perhaps they should also promote a colorectal cancer awareness month as it kills four times as many folks as breast cancer......about the same as lung cancer.

May I ask where you got this information? From all the sources I found, it looks like:
40,000 people die per year from BREAST Cancer
50,000 people die per year from COLORECTAL Cancer
160,000 people die per year from LUNG Cancer

MGLICKER

"""Much of it is preventable, need to stress that part as well.
About 12,000 kids age 14 and under will be diagnosed with Cancer this year. How do you prevent that? More than 10% of those kids will DIE! Walk up to a parent who is told "YOUR CHILD HAS CANCER" and tell them that their child's cancer was preventable!""

I wouldn't say anything to a parent with an ill child other than to offer my support. My father was diagnosed with primary Liver Cancer 15 years ago. The cause was quite likely the now banned industrial solvents that he sold for twenty years. Whether the disease was preventable or not did not alter our care for my dad or the difficulty in watching him die.

Estil

<< <i>Sorry, I'm with the PINK here. We need a cure for this dreaded Cancer!

Come On Man!!!!! >>



I absolutely agree but at the same time we need to be very careful about turning a very serious disease into some kind of trendy pop culture fad. Remember the red HIV ribbons that nearly all the celebs at the award shows wore in the 90s? Remember how in the late 80s/early 90s the loss of the rainforests, all the poor elephants getting killed only for their tusks and cute whittle spotted owls was regular front page news? Now how often do we hear about these things in the news anymore? Because these things are still very much a problem, they didn't just go away.

Another thing that also concerns me (even more so regarding domestic violence/abuse, which even now you're lucky if male victims get anything other than a token mention) is the use of pink is giving the wrong message that it's only a "woman's disease". Someone forgot to tell Rod Roddy that.

MGLICKER

<< <i>I absolutely agree but at the same time we need to be very careful about turning a very serious disease into some kind of trendy pop culture fad. >>



Yep.