breast cancer awareness month

Cancer awareness is a good thing... Breast cancer is put on the front burner but I believe prostate cancer is more common.

Agree with the pink though.

Seriously, it would mean more if they made all of the players do a walk for charity on one day I think. BC is terrible, it claimed my grandmother, but a month-long palooza is just going to make people resent it.

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Originally posted by Pakrz:
Cancer awareness is a good thing... Breast cancer is put on the front burner but I believe prostate cancer is more common.

Agree with the pink though.

Brown ribbons?

That would be for colon cancer. Prostate should probably be an off white ribbon.......

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Breast cancer is put on the front burner but I believe prostate cancer is more common.

But prostate cancer doesn't have ribbon bullies.

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Originally posted by Pakrz:
Cancer awareness is a good thing... Breast cancer is put on the front burner but I believe prostate cancer is more common.

Agree with the pink though.

What color would they use for prostate cancer awareness? Brown?



You got your whole fist up there doc?

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Originally posted by MNPackman:
That would be for colon cancer. Prostate should probably be an off white ribbon.......

Not if you're not firing.

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Originally posted by spooky:
pink doesn't belong on the football field... sorry

Sure she does -- I've had it with Faith Hill.

I think it's great the NFL honors Breast Cancer Awareness month....but, I don't think they have to do it every Sunday....

I think it's the NFL's way of supporting all of the women (and Chaz Bono) who support the NFL....

good for Cancer Research, too.

but, I agree they should have a week for Prostate Cancer, too.

lighten up dum dums....love the pink

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Originally posted by spooky:
i'm all for breast cancer awareness, but pink doesn't belong on the football field... sorry

You hate breasts, don't you?

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You hate breasts, don't you?

Why yes, yes I do. At least some of them.

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Originally posted by Iowacheese:
lighten up dum dums....love the pink

well...I love the pink...that's not the problem...the problem is that they do it all month and it loses its purpose (IMHO)

all I'm saying is mix it up a bit....do Prostate Cancer for 2 weeks and breast cancer for 2 weeks....

1 week of pc pink is enuff, 5 sun in oct...add in prostate awareness.

been more than enough cancer awareness...

I find it funny that people like Fedya, who wishes he had breasts, actually making this political. "pc pink", yeah those fascist cancer awareness bitches!

You find a cure for one type of cancer you find it for all.

Wear some pink and make sure women keep feeling themselves up. Big whoop.

Oh my god! Mastercard and their "pc" stand up to cancer bit! What's worse, some pink (which is annoying but get over it) or teams like the Ravens in all black looking like a Bob Fosse dance troop?

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Originally posted by Henry:
You find a cure for one type of cancer you find it for all.

Not quite. Actually "cancer" includes hundreds of diseases, not just one. The difficulty is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them all, and different cancers respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them all.

Also there is a baking soda treatment for cancer that has shown remarkable success but the doctor who discovered and administered it had his medical license revoked. Cancer is a very political dis-ease.

But if pink towels etc lead to prevention or early detection I'll get over how silly it looks.

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Originally posted by SanDiegoPackFan:

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Originally posted by Iowacheese:
lighten up dum dums....love the pink

well...I love the pink...that's not the problem...the problem is that they do it all month and it loses its purpose (IMHO)

I think they're doing it all month so that there's many game worn pink items to be auctioned off, proceeds going to brast cancer research

Fair point, but couldn't they auction off any game-worn jersey and donate the proceeds to cancer research?

Not trying to be a dooche, just playing devil's advocate.

I'm all for raising awareness to a disease that kills, moms, wives, and sisters, but I think they can achieve that more efficiently. Think of the size of the check the NFL could cut for breast cancer research if they simply took all that money they spent on pink cleats, gloves, towels, wristbands, shirts and caps and donated it to research. At the same time, painting a simple pink ribbon on the field at each stadium would keep the promotion front and center.

amen

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Originally posted by RochNyFan:
I'm all for raising awareness to a disease that kills, moms, wives, and sisters, but I think they can achieve that more efficiently. Think of the size of the check the NFL could cut for breast cancer research if they simply took all that money they spent on pink cleats, gloves, towels, wristbands, shirts and caps and donated it to research. At the same time, painting a simple pink ribbon on the field at each stadium would keep the promotion front and center.

The NFL could easily cut the check, but it is pretty rare for a huge organization/corporation to do so. By doing it like this, the NFL puts out a little money for the pink gear (maybe a $.99 towel? I think they can afford it) and then makes fans pony up by bidding. The returns on the auction are probably far greater than the NFL pays for the special gear (which they probably get a big discount on anyway), the NFL doesn't have to cut a check to charity, and the NFL looks good -- for less money.

Despite being a woman and seeing the affects of the disease in several friends and the loss of friends, I do think a whole month is too long. I think they should call it something like "cancer awareness month," split it in half with two weeks devoted to breast cancer and two to prostrate cancer. Easy -- pink gear for two, blue gear for two.

instead of "wanding" women...how bout free pre-game mammograms

Okay, I laughed at that!

Fandame -

I respect what you are saying, but I don't think we are talking about just a little money, or .99 a towel. There are 45 guys who dress each game day, wearing pink cleats, pink gloves, pink wristbands, pink dew-rags, etc. Multiply that by 32 teams and that means you are outfitting nearly 1500 players....and we haven't even started talking about the hats and coaches' gear.

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Originally posted by RochNyFan:
Fandame -

I respect what you are saying, but I don't think we are talking about just a little money, or .99 a towel. There are 45 guys who dress each game day, wearing pink cleats, pink gloves, pink wristbands, pink dew-rags, etc. Multiply that by 32 teams and that means you are outfitting nearly 1500 players....and we haven't even started talking about the hats and coaches' gear.

Hey, in the big scheme of things, it's a drop in the bucket for the NFL. And while I don't know for sure, it would be interesting to find out if the teams have to pony up for all/some of their players' gear. If I'm not mistaken, I think it's the teams that buy and supply gear for their individual players. So, do the teams have to pay for some of the pink gear or is it all NFL? Either way, it's such a huge promotional thing -- and a way to try to hook/keep more female fans -- that I think the NFL can easily afford it.

when are we going to have "silent killer" awareness month?

Not saying the NFL can't afford it...rather, it would be better spent going directly to research instead of being wasted on pink gear. Promoting awareness can be done much more efficiently.

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Originally posted by El-Ka-Bong:
when are we going to have "silent killer" awareness month?

It is only observed one day each year, Groundhog Day of course.

The NFL is reaching out to women, this is one way to do it and get credit for supporting a worthy cause. I read some place the Packers figure about 30% of their fan base are women. That make sense to me, I remember every Sunday the Packers played the whole extended family came together to watch the game. Lots of food, lots of grandmother, aunts, and girl cousins at those get together. While many of my female relationship may not have been as much into the games as my male family members they sure enjoyed having the family together.

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Originally posted by RochNyFan:
Not saying the NFL can't afford it...rather, it would be better spent going directly to research instead of being wasted on pink gear. Promoting awareness can be done much more efficiently.

Pink gear adds exposure to how "concerned" the NFL is. It's all PR. A month of pink gear is worth a whole lot more than is a two-minute grip-and-grin with dudes/dames in suits holding a fake check. I agree it is a bit inefficient, but on the other hand, look how much discussion it's generated here!

here and all this while I thought brak was the only female that posted on X4

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Also there is a baking soda treatment for cancer that has shown remarkable success but the doctor who discovered and administered it had his medical license revoked. Cancer is a very political dis-ease.

Then there is Vitamin B17. A carbon in the molecule contains four groups. Two are sugars, one is a cyanide, and one a benzaldehyde.

The cyanide and benzaldehyde are toxic, but not if the bond linking them to the carbon is not broken. Taken together, there is a synergy effect (read: much more toxic). Cancer cells contain an enzyme that breaks the bond. And so if folks merely had Vitamin B17 in their diet, no cancer. Analogous to no scurvy if people get Vitamin C. (No other cell in the body contains the enzyme.)

A family pracitioner (now deceased) who was once a skeptic, wrote a book on his treatment of patients. He cured patients who even had metastatic cancer. Book available on-line.

http://www.whale.to/m/binzel.html

Then you got Royal Rife...


They do not want a cure.

sigh

sigh

do you get vitamin B17 from cheese, cause PETA would have a problem with that

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Originally posted by phaedrus:
[QUOTE]Then there is Vitamin B17. A carbon in the molecule contains four groups. Two are sugars, one is a cyanide, and one a benzaldehyde.

Sounds like something Colts and Vikings fans are on the verge of using!

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Originally posted by Iowacheese:
sigh

Typical knee-jerk response.

Keep taking the blue pills. They love you for it.


When I was in Dallas, as I didn't know anyone, I joined a tennis meetup (internet utility). Some dude email's me and asks me if I want to play.

Sure.

During a break, we somehow discussed this topic and he tells me, don't bother. I apologize to which he replies, "No, you don't understand. I know all about it."

He was like 55 years old. At 18, he was sent home to die (incurable cancer). Lifts up his shirt and shows me this huge scar running up from waist to almost neck.

Says he was at the cancer clinic in Tijuana (Contreras). Was healed. Says he saw Steve McQueen there and said he died cuz he didn't follow the protocol.

I guess the above guy is famous as I mentioned the story to friends who know of him. I don't remember his name.