Nfl using breast cancer awareness month

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The NFL's Campaign Against Breast Cancer Is a Total Scam

 

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The NFL's use of pink is not as altruistic as it seems. | SportsonEarth.com : Ryan Basen Article

 

[JDM]

5% isn't bad, considering they could sell the shit pretty easily without help.

 

[STBR 27]

I hate October football for this very reason. Breast cancer awareness is a good cause, but the NFL players look ridiculous for the entire month. They should do one sunday in October to go all out pink and then go back to regular uniforms.

 

[Wolvie]

Its to get the womenfolk on its side. Psychologically it is genius. Football cares about them so it can't all that brutal can it? Then it becomes trendy, and boom, more popular

 

[ckhokie]

Thank God the NFL made me so aware of breast cancer. I don't know where I would have heard about it or been made 'aware' without them.

 

[Breaker99]

Stupid article...

Its like, someone uses their notoriety to bring attention to breast cancer and makes a donation and brings attention to the issue which must cause people to donate on their own.

But this person is complaining? Even if the league does make money of it, they still allow their limelight to be shared by breast cancer awareness and they still donate a large amount directly to breast cancer research... so if you ask me, this article is fucking stupid. Would it be better if they did nothing? Because that is an option too.

 

[uncfan103]

5% isn't bad, considering they could sell the shit pretty easily without help.

Having a breast cancer awareness month gives the NFL the opportunity to sell many more items than they would be able to.

Do you think the NFL would have a month devoted to pink items and not related to Breast Cancer Awareness? I don't think people are buying these items instead of their normal gear, I think they're buying them because the items are different than what they already have. I also don't think MLB could sell these hats if the players weren't wearing them on the field.

 

[Wolvie]

Stupid article...

Its like, someone uses their notoriety to bring attention to breast cancer and makes a donation and brings attention to the issue which must cause people to donate on their own.

But this person is complaining? Even if the league does make money of it, they still allow their limelight to be shared by breast cancer awareness and they still donate a large amount directly to breast cancer research... so if you ask me, this article is fucking stupid. Would it be better if they did nothing? Because that is an option too.

 

[Mondio]

except most of that money is spent on bloated salaries and fund raisers to raise more money. Breast cancer is one giant fucking cash cow and people are so willing to just jump on board. NFL, Vodka, dog leashes, furniture, etc. Nobody is missing out on using breast cancer as a platform for an ad campaign.

Someone said should they just do nothing, well maybe. When you consider that most of the money is used to pay somebody or something that has nothing to do with helping those with breast cancer. and every Oct.people spend millions so they can get "stuff" thinking their helping someone, when in reality, they're just buying stuff and more people continue to make more money.

The billions and billions and billions raised every year for decades now and the best they can come up with is get your breasts shot up with ionizing radiation to look for tumors or get a genetic test and go cut your boobs off. They made a minimal impact in mortality because they find it in younger women and treat them. Whoo hooo! it's a statistical mill. can't say that in public though, especially if your a man, who can talk against breast cancer? It's too easy to marginalize those that do, so they don't.

But it's for breast cancer

 

[SomeGuy]

I hate the pink on the field. To distracting and not professional.

 

[mcro_rave_2001]

I hate the pink on the field. To distracting and not professional.

i agree, that' why i don't watch the LFL

 

[Breaker99]

except most of that money is spent on bloated salaries and fund raisers to raise more money. Breast cancer is one giant fucking cash cow and people are so willing to just jump on board. NFL, Vodka, dog leashes, furniture, etc. Nobody is missing out on using breast cancer as a platform for an ad campaign.

Someone said should they just do nothing, well maybe. When you consider that most of the money is used to pay somebody or something that has nothing to do with helping those with breast cancer. and every Oct.people spend millions so they can get "stuff" thinking their helping someone, when in reality, they're just buying stuff and more people continue to make more money.

The billions and billions and billions raised every year for decades now and the best they can come up with is get your breasts shot up with ionizing radiation to look for tumors or get a genetic test and go cut your boobs off. They made a minimal impact in mortality because they find it in younger women and treat them. Whoo hooo! it's a statistical mill. can't say that in public though, especially if your a man, who can talk against breast cancer? It's too easy to marginalize those that do, so they don't.

But it's for breast cancer

So the 5.4 million dollars that NFL donated to the American Cancer Society is a waste? And their campaign to promote early detection and regular exams with their "Crucial Catch" program is a waste of time?

http://www.nfl.com/pink

I am sorry, but I just don't see it. The complaining is unjustified.

This argument that because not every dime gets to the cancer research so the 5.5 million the NFL directly donates is worthless is a bad argument. But thats not even nearly as important as their campaign to highlight early detection success stories to promote regular check ups.

 

[France_Steve]

If the NFL was serious about this they would show way more healthy breasts. Extremely disappointed that I have seen no breasts from the NFL.

 

[Breaker99]

If you haven't seen any breasts in the NFL then you haven't been paying attention....

 

[wazzu31]

I'm more interested in seeing if the NFL can come up with catchy campaign for colon cancer.

 

[MarkOU]

I'm more interested in seeing if the NFL can come up with catchy campaign for colon cancer.

Cleveland already has.

Hell they are the Browns even.

 

[OregonDucks]

This has been known. Nothing more than a money maker for the NFL in selling new gear, also it pleases their female audience, which is growing by the year.

 

[Team Mookie]

I'm more interested in seeing if the NFL can come up with catchy campaign for colon cancer.

lol... but you bring up a good point.

Wouldn't the NFL's efforts be better served by bringing awareness to men's health issues. Just saying as men are more than likely to die from cancer or related diseases and less likely to go and get cancer prevention screenings.

 

[Team Mookie]

Cleveland already has.

Hell they are the Browns even.

That's hurtful...

 

[Mondio]

So the 5.4 million dollars that NFL donated to the American Cancer Society is a waste? And their campaign to promote early detection and regular exams with their "Crucial Catch" program is a waste of time?

NFL Pink - A Crucial Catch - NFL.com

I am sorry, but I just don't see it. The complaining is unjustified.

This argument that because not every dime gets to the cancer research so the 5.5 million the NFL directly donates is worthless is a bad argument. But thats not even nearly as important as their campaign to highlight early detection success stories to promote regular check ups.

Don't buy it, I don't care. Most of America is so happy to hand dollars over like crazy to anything cancer related. My aunt was a regional director for the American Cancer Society. If you like to make a lot of money, it is definitely a "company" to work for. You have no clue just how little your dollars do for those with cancer.

You think mammograms are that fucking important? the only reason they are is because a cancer society that exists soley to make money off breast cancer has spent decades pounding it into your brain and you bought it. Many, and there are many, highly respected and at the top of the field in cancer research that have said and shown that mammograms are practically useless. But you'll never see that on a football sunday. or in any ad campaign.


and your early detection? truth is we still have no idea if it's helping anything or not. You probably wouldn't know because you're educated by the ad campaigns that exist to raise more and more money. when you factor in false positives, the treatments and surgeries for nothing, the fact that a lot of these cancers they do treat and are "successful" with are cancers that never would have done a thing had they never went looking. So was it really a success? and there are a lot they don't find on any screening and 6 months later the woman has less than a year to live.

those that research know, the public gives their "efforts" way too much credit. Largely thanks to ad campaigns like this. But if they're honest, they're marginalized by media, if what they say even makes the media. Most say nothing, because their paychecks depend on the perception, not the reality. Which is fine, they're actually working on cancer. But there is a gigantic bloated money sucking cow that makes many rich just for helping get other rich off the despair and hope of others. They've never even picked up a pipette let alone tried to splice genes into a virus that will attack a cancer cell. They've probably never even seen a cancer cell differntiated from a healthy one, but their rich off cancer none the less.

Give you money, buy your pink shit, feel good about yourself in thinking you're actually doing anything.

 

[wazzu31]

lol... but you bring up a good point.

Wouldn't the NFL's efforts be better served by bringing awareness to men's health issues. Just saying as men are more than likely to die from cancer or related diseases and less likely to go and get cancer prevention screenings.

I was partially being a smart ass because I've never actually seen a slogan for colon cancer but yes the breast cancer thing is just a money scam because pink targets the female fan yet men dominate the fan base but no blue day for prostate cancer. Not knocking it because it is a great cause but it should be a cancer awareness campaign not just breast cancer when most cancer awareness funds goes to researching all forms of cancer.