Oregon to Wear Pink Football Helmets

[Marshal Dillon]

I hate to sound so obstinate, but I am sick to death of all the political correctness when it comes to breast cancer. Is this the ONLY disease in the world? Is it the only cancer? Is it the most deadly cancer? The obvious answer is no. Does no one care about Lou Gehrig's Disease, throat cancer, Parkinson's, lung cancer, MS, MD, brain cancer, and one of the most deadly of all diseases, pancreatic cancer, with a 1% survival rate. Am I the only one who feels this way? Just wondering.



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[pmull]

The pink helments will be a big improvement and more manly than the all 'highlighter' yellow uniforms they wore a few weeks ago.

I don't mind the pink events. I think it has more effect when women's sports (like Alabama's Power of Pink gymnastic meets) do it. It has become a fashion statement in the NFL.

I think brest cancer is a noble cause that has directly affected many families including mine. There are many other good causes. I strongly support heart disease since that is how we lost my Mother.

[ricky023]

MD I support all efforts against all diseases. I do however agree that wearing pink helmets might be cheating a little bit. Why? Well the other team will be so busy laughing they won't be able to play and tackle. So I don't think they should be able to wear such items in a college football game. RTR!

[XBAMA]

we do it but , I believe it's just the ladies sports
I may be wrong ...

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In this country alone, a woman will be newly diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes

those pink hats should be different  




they had the NFL refs with pink penalty flags in one game I watched
I couldn't tell if a ref threw a flag of if one of the players dropped his
sweat rag

[Marshal Dillon]

I'm not talking about just sports, but throughout our society all this stuff about wearing pink ribbons, and holding special events, etc. Again, why aren't we focusing more on all the other more deadly & debilitating diseases? Breast cancer is easy to detect and treat and has a high survival rate. You can't say that about most other diseases. Parkinson's, MS, MD, brain cancer & Lou Gehring's Disease are horrendous diseases. Read up on them and let me know what you think. None of my relatives have had these diseases so I am going strictly on what I have read and looking at this with an open mind.



 

[pmull]

I'm not talking about just sports, but throughout our society all this stuff about wearing pink ribbons, and holding special events, etc. Again, why aren't we focusing more on all the other more deadly & debilitating diseases? Breast cancer is easy to detect and treat and has a high survival rate. You can't say that about most other diseases. Parkinson's, MS, MD, brain cancer & Lou Gehring's Disease are horrendous diseases. Read up on them and let me know what you think. None of my relatives have had these diseases so I am going strictly on what I have read and looking at this with an open mind.



 

MD I don't know the answer to your question. My guess is Breast Cancer people have done a better job of promoting their organization than the others.

[Marshal Dillon]

I'm not talking about just sports, but throughout our society all this stuff about wearing pink ribbons, and holding special events, etc. Again, why aren't we focusing more on all the other more deadly & debilitating diseases? Breast cancer is easy to detect and treat and has a high survival rate. You can't say that about most other diseases. Parkinson's, MS, MD, brain cancer & Lou Gehring's Disease are horrendous diseases. Read up on them and let me know what you think. None of my relatives have had these diseases so I am going strictly on what I have read and looking at this with an open mind.



 

MD I don't know the answer to your question. My guess is Breast Cancer people have done a better job of promoting their organization than the others.

You are exactly right but that is only part of it. The other part is political correctness. The media & women's groups (feminists) made a big to do about the issue not receiving enough attention & how women were dying due to it so political correctness kicked in and the media blew it out of proportion and made it seem to be the biggest medical issue on the planet. No politician or other public figure will dare say a word about it. This is just one reason I hate political correctness so much.


 

[Merk]

I hear you, MD. There are other cancers that don't get the publicity breast cancer does.

My sister is fighting Melanoma. It would be nice to see this and other diseases get equal, or, at least, some acknowledgment.

[pmull]

Did you know that all the pink being worn at sporting events was started at Alabama ten years ago by Sarah Patterson when she started the first Power of Pink event. It spread throughout the NCAA and is now in MLB and NFL.

The Power of Pink is the name given to one of the Crimson Tide's home meets each season in which all the participants and fans show up wearing pink to show support for breast cancer awareness. The first Power of Pink meet was in February 2005 at Alabama's home meet against Auburn. Coach Patterson named the meet "Drive 4 the Cause" and requested all fans showing up, to wearing pink. The meet became a sell out and an annual crowd favorite with each following "Pink Meet" selling out. The movement spread within the year to other woman's sports in the NCAA and eventually spilled over into the men's sports and pros. By the end of the decade the MLB used pink bats on Mother's Day and the NFL donned pink gloves for the cause.

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Here is a Crimson White article about how the Power of Pink got started:
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[Catch Prothro]

Did you know that all the pink being worn at sporting events was started at Alabama ten years ago by Sarah Patterson when she started the first Power of Pink event. It spread throughout the NCAA and is now in MLB and NFL.

The Power of Pink is the name given to one of the Crimson Tide's home meets each season in which all the participants and fans show up wearing pink to show support for breast cancer awareness. The first Power of Pink meet was in February 2005 at Alabama's home meet against Auburn. Coach Patterson named the meet "Drive 4 the Cause" and requested all fans showing up, to wearing pink. The meet became a sell out and an annual crowd favorite with each following "Pink Meet" selling out. The movement spread within the year to other woman's sports in the NCAA and eventually spilled over into the men's sports and pros. By the end of the decade the MLB used pink bats on Mother's Day and the NFL donned pink gloves for the cause.

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Here is a Crimson White article about how the Power of Pink got started:
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Cool.  Didn't know it all started with Sarah Patterson.   

[Marshal Dillon]

Actually, the pink ribbon & breast cancer campaign got fired up big time in the mid 1990's and of course Bill & Hillary played it up to the max.



 

[pmull]

Actually, the pink ribbon & breast cancer campaign got fired up big time in the mid 1990's and of course Bill & Hillary played it up to the max.



 

Alabama did not start the pink ribbon or the color pink to represent breast cancer. They were the first to start wearing pink and promoting breat cancer research at a sporting event.

[Chechem]

Why on earth would anyone attack the breast-cancer campaign?

It's like so many afflictions, people kept quiet about it.  The result: women failed to be checked for it, and women with it weren't getting adequate treatment.  So now this campaign brings it into the light, and there's real progress in detection and treatment.  If it saves one life, and certainly it has, then the campaign is worth it.

Find something inconsequential or trivial to attack.  Breast cancer isn't a joke and shouldn't be a target of complaint.

[Marshal Dillon]

Why on earth would anyone attack the breast-cancer campaign?

It's like so many afflictions, people kept quiet about it.  The result: women failed to be checked for it, and women with it weren't getting adequate treatment.  So now this campaign brings it into the light, and there's real progress in detection and treatment.  If it saves one life, and certainly it has, then the campaign is worth it.

Find something inconsequential or trivial to attack.  Breast cancer isn't a joke and shouldn't be a target of complaint.

Once again you have MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT I AM TRYING TO MAKE. Is breast cancer the ONLY disease  
in the world? There are MANY more victims of other more deadly/debilitating diseases than breast cancer. MS puts young people in a wheelchair for life then slowly kills them. Brain cancer is a horrible, horrible way to die as it eats your brain up, pancreatic cancer has a 1% survival rate and kills you in 3 months are less.  I am attacking POLITICAL CORRECTNESS not breast cancer awareness.

[Chechem]

Why on earth would anyone attack the breast-cancer campaign?

It's like so many afflictions, people kept quiet about it.  The result: women failed to be checked for it, and women with it weren't getting adequate treatment.  So now this campaign brings it into the light, and there's real progress in detection and treatment.  If it saves one life, and certainly it has, then the campaign is worth it.

Find something inconsequential or trivial to attack.  Breast cancer isn't a joke and shouldn't be a target of complaint.

Once again you have MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT I AM TRYING TO MAKE. Is breast cancer the ONLY disease   
in the world? There are MANY more victims of other more deadly/debilitating diseases than breast cancer. MS puts young people in a wheelchair for life then slowly kills them. Brain cancer is a horrible, horrible way to die as it eats your brain up, pancreatic cancer has a 1% survival rate and kills you in 3 months are less.  I am attacking POLITICAL CORRECTNESS not breast cancer awareness. Maybe you live in a politically correct world, but I don't.

This isn't the place (and I understood very well).

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