Pink Penalty Flags.....

what exactly does having pink penalty flags achieve that having pink shoes, pink sweatbands, pink socks, pink gloves, pink mouthpieces, pink tape and pink pads hasn't achieved? If the NFL wants to donate 15M to cancer research great - but do we need to have pink penalty flags in order to donate money to cancer? why don't the owners donate 20% of all concessions revenue? Why grandstand w/pink penalty flags when the NFL could actually do something about cancer research by giving more money?

 

plus 1 :beer:

 

Sorry for his sister, but how exactly pink flags will help her?

If you believe the hype, it should go like this:
pink flags => "raise awareness" => more $$ in pink bags => his sister is cured.

Pisses me off. Started as a great idea, to increase research funding & now turned into another $$-grabbing scheme feasting on soft-hearted.

 

I got into argument with my now ex-gf parents about it, something like 12 years ago.
Started innocently: they asked for a small donation for breast cancer, I obliged, but had misfortune to add a comment "That's great cause... now we gotta add prostate cancer to the list".

Holy shit ... I thought that the fat cow (my would-be mommy-in-law) was gonna have a fit. For the next 20 mins she was screaming about how insensitive I am, all men are selfish like this... blah blah.

 

I am getting tired of the pink. 1 week? Ok. An entire month? you gotta be kidding me. 4-5 games worth pink is overdoing it. I think we know about breast cancer! And let's not be naive and think the NFL is doing this purely out of the goodness of their hearts. I read an article on PFT a week or two ago about this, and the NFL makes sure they are over their own cost for producing the pink apparel before they donate the excess, in short, they do this pink apparel stuff only in such a way as to guarantee they don't lose profit, not all of it goes to charity. Not to mention the fact that they probably make money off of this when people go to order pink apparel on nflshop.com and end up buying non-pink apparel as well, it is a clever marketing ploy; attract buyers for a certain type of product hoping they will add other items to their cart on the online shop, when they otherwise would not have gone on the site if the pink apparel was not there.

I also don't see the merit in doing a months worth of awareness raising for one disease when there are tons of other diseases out there that need the same amount of attention if not more. Why not have an AIDS month where players wear red? The emphasis on breast cancer has made me cynical into thinking the NFL only does this improve its appeal to female viewers. It's no secret the NFL has been trying to do this, with the increased production of female apparel items on nflshop, the selection of super bowl half time performers (Madonna, Beyonce, etc) that will likely appeal more to the female audience than the male.

In short, I don't think the NFL would be doing this if it lost money doing it, or was not increasing viewership/apparel sales among women.

I just think there's something wrong with the NFL where Jake Plummer gets fined for wearing a memorial sticker for former teammate Pat Tillman who died in Afghanistan, and yet the NFL allows players to break normal uniform regulations for an entire month. The NFL could make just as much an impact with breast cancer if they merely donated a small portion of the billions they make every year! And not have to rely on fans to buy products so that the nfl can break even or better and then donate what is left over to charity.

And if this kid who suggested the pink penalty flags has a sister with breast cancer, how about the NFL actually do something and pay a penny's worth of what they make and pay for this girl's cancer treatment!? Instead of providing lip service to the cause by using pink penalty flags.

 

......not worth it

 

dont care about it as long as the right penalties are called

 

It doesn't bother me, but honestly, who isn't aware of breast cancer at this point?

 

This is insulting and worse than Reggie Bush's karma comment. You are assuming that people that don't like pink and think the NFL isn't doing shit for other types of cancer have never had a relative or friend with cancer????? WTF. I've had 2 close family members die from breast cancer.. but yeah I don't care about it. Don't generalize people like that. Look at their actual points instead of appealing to emotion.

Hey guys, I'm starting my own charity. For every $100 received, $1 will go to cancer research. Start sending over, it's for a good cause!!! Don't criticize me! If you do, you must never have known anybody with cancer which is a horrible disease! Get a life!

 

Get over it. People don't like looking at random distracting pink things all over their TV screen or footall fields for an entire month of the NFL season. Everyone knows it's for a good cause. Not too many people complained when it happened for a week a few years ago, then it got extended for a month. Then teams were required to wear a certain number of pink garments per week for an entire month.

Now it's a merchandizing angle for the NFL. Yeah, a percentage of the proceeds goes to breast cancer research. And the rest goes into the pockets of greedy assholes who want to price blue collar fans out of stadiums. The same greedy assholes that make you look at those hideous Titans unis. The company line only goes so far, and then the boss makes you dress like Ralphie in his pink bunny suit on Christmas morning.

This has been out of hand for a while. We get it. It's for a good cause. But I'll go batshit if I see pink alternate jerseys.

 

DIPSET on out of this thread.

 

They really need to research pancreatic cancer... It is horrible.. The doctors say that by the time they find it.. It's too late to do anything about it.. They need to do more study on how to check for early symptom's because they can't really tell until it's too late.. They should do something for that form of cancer too.. RIP patrick swayze.. Great actor.. He died of stage 4 P. Cancer..

 

Pancreatic cancer is definitely a scarier form of cancer than breast cancer. Actually, I think colon cancer is, too. Not sure what they could wear for the pancreas, but for colon cancer they could wear brown. Hey, how about testicular cancer? Blue?

 

All cancer is bad and my sister and mother last week were supposed to walk with a girl.. Well she was not feeling up to it..So they walked w/o her.. I just don't understand how people and all animals been getting cancer for ever and all we can do is comfort them.. My grandpa died almost 5 years ago to lung and he never smoked cigs...

 

Cancer is and has always been a plague in all forms. Most people I know, including myself have been touched by it.

Maybe that's the touchy point about the pink campaign. It's a treatable version of it that is getting far more attention than a lot of the deadlier ones.

 

I think the reason this campaign is at the forefront compared to other cancers is due to the epidemiology of breast cancer. While there are many other deadlier types of cancers like pancreatic, or glioblastomas, those are much less common than breast cancer. On top of that, there are no real great screening methods that will benefit from people being aware of those other cancers. With breast cancer, women should know at least to go in for their mammograms at 40 years old.

 

I get it, except for the fact that football is a mostly male-dominated sport. Not talking about players, but viewers. People have made the suggestion that the NFL is using a cross-gender issue like this to bring more female viewers to the sport, and I'm not sure I disagree. Wouldn't you say that men are just as reticent to have testicular and colon cancer diagnosed as women are about breat cancer?

If not moreso? Most women I know have openly admitted to having regular mammograms. I can count on one hand the number of men that have allowed doctors to stick a finger up their ass or fondle their nads.

Seems sort of odd.

 

There is a good reason for that!