You may be wondering why the NFL players are all sporting pink gear this October and that’s great that you took the conscious effort to do a little research! You may also be wondering why someone like Tom Brady is not wearing pink, when all of the rest of the players are. Now that you are reading this, you are well aware that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month and that means that it’s your duty to tell your Mom, Aunt, Granny, and/or lady friends over the age of 40 that it’s time to get their yearly mammogram checkup. Why? Because, early detection can save their life!
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The NFL’s campaign, “A Crucial Catch”, in partnership with the America Cancer Society, supports breast cancer awareness month by focusing on the importance of annual screenings for women 40 years and older. During the month of October, players, coaches and referees will be wearing pink game apparel to help raise awareness and money for this very important campaign. This month, you can also support breast cancer awareness by purchasing your own pink products, such as these Chan Luu bracelets whereby 50% of all proceeds are donated to breastcancer.org’s Think Pink, Live Green prevention initiative. Love them!
The idea of NFL players wearing pink, pioneered by Deangelo Williams, is the best way to create awareness as the NFL draws the largest TV audiences and has tons of influence. Nevertheless, it appears that players have a choice of how much pink they wish to wear during the game. Clearly, Tom Brady is not representing the color pink – as witnessed during Sunday’s game against the Denver Broncos on October 7th, 2012 – but as an icon and one of the top quarterbacks in the National Football League, we feel he should be a much better representative of A Crucial Catch…don’t you think!? Tell us in the comments section below how you feel about Tom’s overall decision NOT to represent pink during NBCAM.
Over and above supporting breast cancer research by purchasing pink items that fund the Susan G. Komen project, there’s a really neat movement called “The Tutu Project”, whereby a New York based photographer named Bob Carey, takes self-portraits of himself wearing a pink tutu. The NFL is endorsing The Tutu Project this month, whereby you may see Bob Carey on the football field wearing his pink tutu – specifically at MetLife Stadium, Lucas Oil Stadium, and University Of Phoenix Stadium. His self-published book called “Ballerina” will showcase this series of images and is currently being pre-sold. All net proceeds will be donated to women diagnosed with breast cancer. Check it out!
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It’s a joke- That money doesn’t go to cancer research. All the billions of dollars funneling into “cancer research” and no progress made? They’d have a cure by now if they wanted to. There is too much money to be made in treating cancer. Eradicating it would separate too much money from too many people. Open your eyes and don’t buy into the sham, the illusion of doing something beneficial.
By the way annual mammomgrams can increase the chance of getting breast cancer by 2% every year. Start at age 40 and do the math. There is a also a ridiculous percentage of false positives with studies showing that up to 70% of detected tumors are not tumors at all – and studies have shown that for every 15 cancer cases identified by mammogram, 75 are caused by mammogram. One type of cancer (DCIS) has seen an increase in occurences of 328% since mammograms were introduced.
It sounds bad to say “don’t support cancer research or awareness” but the truth is, there needs to be more transparency and accountability. I believe the intentions of your organiztion and others are pure and good, I don’t believe that is the case for many of the “researchers” and organizations that funds go to.
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Love what you’re doing! Good luck 🙂