ASB: NFL wears pink in solidarity for women with breast cancer?

Yes, all these macho athletes. And the athletes themselves might be all in favor of it, perhaps knowing another family or perhaps even having a family member themselves who has struggled with breast cancer.

But the team ownership. They've spent just far too much money trying to build the team uniform as a brand, there's no way they'd want it festooned with pink.

And it's a pipe dream to think the NFL would do this for the entire month of October.

But what about just one week? Any possibility?
 
Different sport, but don't Real Madrid have a pink away strip this season for pretty much that reason?

I guess since football teams have more of a tradition of changing the colours of away and third kits each year that it's easier for them to do than an NFL side.

Plus they couldn't all do it at once, would make for one hell of a colour clash!
 
Maybe the players could wear pink gloves and shoes and towels on their belt, but even with that owners would likely throw a fit.
 
Plenty of different sports do it, but off the top of my head:

Cricket: One day of the sydney test each year is pink day.

Both AFL, rugby league and union here in Australia have an indigenous round where special jerseys are worn along with other activities to recognise aboriginal and torres strait islanders. Also the ANZAC day round as well.

The notion of doing a special round or game for breast cancer awareness exists in many other sports.

Also, your argument about the jerseys is false imho, especially if they are run as shorter/limited runs that fans will want to buy. Also, if your supporters get thrown by a once a season pink jersey or what-have-you, I think your team might have some bigger issues about its brand/supporters.

So a special charity/awareness round, yes, much more likely to happen.
 
Don't see it as that ridiculous. It's been done in college football by some fairly high-profile programs (e.g. Oregon). And other sports do things of that nature (e.g. Major League Baseball).
 
Every time that South Africa plays a one-day international at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, the home side wears pink.

Wanderers.jpg
 
Yes, all these macho athletes. And the athletes themselves might be all in favor of it, perhaps knowing another family or perhaps even having a family member themselves who has struggled with breast cancer.

But the team ownership. They've spent just far too much money trying to build the team uniform as a brand, there's no way they'd want it festooned with pink.

And it's a pipe dream to think the NFL would do this for the entire month of October.

But what about just one week? Any possibility?

Could do - but the rate of prostate cancer is higher in the black population than breast cancer. As 2/3 of the NFL player are black they might want to start here first.

https://nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/toptencancers.aspx

http://www.besttickets.com/blog/nfl-player-census-2014/
 
And if the charities are promoting regular mammograms, more power to them.

Just try and be as open with the information as you can.

Say, out of 10,000 patients, how many false positives do you expect compared to how many women really have breast cancer?

Will try and find some of these numbers, but please jump in and help if this topic interests you.
 
http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20111017/annual-mammograms-may-have-more-false-positives

from Oct. 17, 2011
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After 10 years of annual screening, more than half of women will be called back at least once for another mammogram. And 7% to 9% will be told they should have a biopsy because of something suspicious that turns out not to be cancer, the researchers concluded

Those false-positives may cause inconvenience and anxiety, and biopsies can cause pain and scarring, the researchers note.

They found a small but not significant increase in the chance that women diagnosed with breast cancer had a more advanced case if they underwent screening every other year instead of every year.
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And there's the rub. It might well be worth it, but you've got to level with people going in.

I'd still like to find the baseline numbers, out of 10,000 women tested . . .
 
That's an excellent point, but can't they do both? What is prostate cancer awareness' color?

Light blue.

I guess the point I was making was that whilst Breast cancer gets all the publicity it is a disease that hits white women hardest across the population. That's not a reason not to promote its awareness but might be seen as slightly "white-centric" when you consider the almost complete lack of publicity surrounding other cancers.

There is an "all-cancer" colour of lavender which I think is more inclusive.

Also it's not as if the NFL is doing nothing about breast cancer awareness

http://www.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2015/09/30/0ap3000000543051.pdf
 
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Yes, all these macho athletes. And the athletes themselves might be all in favor of it, perhaps knowing another family or perhaps even having a family member themselves who has struggled with breast cancer.

But the team ownership. They've spent just far too much money trying to build the team uniform as a brand, there's no way they'd want it festooned with pink.

And it's a pipe dream to think the NFL would do this for the entire month of October.

But what about just one week? Any possibility?

Well, leaving aside the breast cancer connection...

Until well into the 20th century, pink was considered a masculine color and blue was considered feminine. I've seen this asserted in infant clothing trade journals from the 1920s.
 

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Yes, all these macho athletes. And the athletes themselves might be all in favor of it, perhaps knowing another family or perhaps even having a family member themselves who has struggled with breast cancer.

But the team ownership. They've spent just far too much money trying to build the team uniform as a brand, there's no way they'd want it festooned with pink.

And it's a pipe dream to think the NFL would do this for the entire month of October.

But what about just one week? Any possibility?

The NFL already does it. They wear clothing items such as pink cleats, pink gloves, pink mouth guards, and pink tape plus they sell merchandise and outfit their stadiums in pink or pink ribbons. The NFL has a page featuring photos:

http://www.nfl.com/photos/0ap3000000546999

and for their program 'A Crucial Catch' to support annual screening:

http://www.nfl.com/pink
 
Well, leaving aside the breast cancer connection...

Until well into the 20th century, pink was considered a masculine color and blue was considered feminine. I've seen this asserted in infant clothing trade journals from the 1920s.

In France - one of their top rugby teams......... Stade Francais

Do not question their maculinity:eek:

Stade_Francais.jpg
 
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