Look, I appreciate boobs as much as the next guy, and hate cancer just as much as anyone else, but this pink craze in the NFL has just gone too far.
I think it’s cute when MLB players will use a pink bat for Mother’s day. That is pretty neat. But seeing virtually every player in every NFL game in the entire month of October is just too much.
And now the NFL says they are going to use pink penalty flags for the Jets/Dolphins game this week, because of the suggestion of a 5 year old.
Hey, Commissioner Goodell, I have a toddler who would like to see the penalty flags be replaced by chicken nuggets.
Are we supposed to believe that the NFL cares that much about women and breast cancer research? When their poster boys are the likes of Brett Favre, Ben Roethlisberger, and Lawrence Taylor.
Why does it just have to be breast cancer? Why can’t it be just plain old cancer. Money raised from the pink brouhaha goes to “breast cancer research.” I would be interested in knowing how much goes to any research, and how much is for “administrative fees” and such.
Someone is going to have to sew those pink flags, after all.
What about other cancers? Digestive system cancers kill more people per year than breast cancer, as does Respiratory system cancer.
Prostate cancer is estimated to kill 28,170 men this year. But I don’t see guys playing football in kilts.
There’s an idea for you. We should get the KTKC guys on that next year.
Kilts on the football field.
I can see Peyton Manning lifting up the kilt of his center.
Whoa.
“I can see Peyton Manning lifting up the kilt of his center.”
I just spit a mouth full of trail mix on my monitor. You gotta warn a dude, dude.
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, but you didn’t see MLB or the NFL promoting that. The problem, as my primary care doctor explained it, is that “Pink Mafia” (my term) sucks up a disproportional amount of the donor dollars.
Lung Cancer is the big killer, and yet the breast cancer industry gets more money. Prostate Cancer kills more men than Breast Cancer kills women, and yet it gets hardly any attention.
Like you I’m a big fan of boobs. What’s not to like? Still, I’m at far more risk from prostate cancer than my wife is from breast cancer.
I’ll start wearing pink something in October when women start wearing blue in September and stop acting as if Breast Cancer was the only disease worth finding “THE CURE” for.
Showbiz.
These days I spend time in the showbiz world and it’s all marketing and image. If you can find the right image and market it to the right people, it works for you. What’s interesting about showbiz is that it’s all based on image. Yeah, there’s talent involved but what you see is not real. It’s just what you see.
Did a show up in Tennessee where I opened for some other musical acts and backstage, things were a mess. I was supposed to play for about 30 minutes and then they said, “Can you up that to 45 minutes.” Sure, I have that much music in me. As the time came for me to quit, they fed a note to me to give them 15 more minutes. No problem and the people didn’t mind. It all looked seamless to the audience but organization backstage was a disaster.
In one show, I was told by the producer that I wouldn’t be on for about an hour – benefit concert with several performers – and 2 seconds later the emcee announced me, so I had to jump and run. Still, the audience never knew.
Point is, what you see is not what it really is. It is all image and marketing. It’s not a problem on the stage, but with cancer, et al, it’s not science and medicine and reasonable priorities. It’s who can grab the image and the publicity.