Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago
Man can get breast cancer too. About one percent of breast cancer is found in men, and breast cancer in men has a much higher death rates than it does in women.
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hardrocker950
14 years ago

For the money these guys get paid they should be able to catch balls covered with bacon grease. Tim Hasselbeck is a complete moron; the kind of player that needed to rely on excuses like this.

"bozz_2006" wrote:



Agreed! :thumbright:
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14 years ago

Why do they need a little pink ribbon on the ball which nobody can see?

"Packerchick" wrote:





All this pink bullshit is to try to get women interested in football. It's F'n stupid. Like guys who try to act all sensitive, because they think that's what a woman wants to hear. Excruciating.

"nerdmann" wrote:



You men are so insensitive. You obviously do not have a woman in your life. I have had a realitve who has licked breast cancer, how do you think you would feel if you had a relative or friend who had cancer in any form or any other illness for that matter?

"K_Buz" wrote:



My sister had breast cancer. I don't need a pink ribbon or some smarmy booth announcer or Brett Favre's shoe soles to tell me what it means.

Our problem is not with the pink. It's with the notion that the NFL truly gives a flying fig. For the NFL, it's a marketing/PR thing, nothing more.

Put it this way....how much did all that pink stuff cost the NFL? If it truly was about something other than the NFL's "image", why don't they just donate all that money to breast cancer research directly?
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Greg C.
14 years ago

If it truly was about something other than the NFL's "image", why don't they just donate all that money to breast cancer research directly?

"Wade" wrote:



Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of "raising awareness," which is what this is about? I'm assuming that they ran this idea past the breast cancer people before they decided to go with it. If you hate the NFL so much, maybe you should just watch college and high school football.
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zombieslayer
14 years ago
FYI - More women die of heart disease than breast cancer in this country. You'd never know it with political correctness gone amuck.

My heart goes out to ANYONE with ANY form of cancer. Breast cancer is one of MANY. One of my favorite professors died of brain cancer. SHE was an awesome professor too, and it sucks. I get an email from a friend that says she's dead. Never got a chance to tell her how awesome she was.

Let's be real. The NFL is doing this not to raise awareness, but to make money. All those balls are a tax deduction. Let's not forget that.

Corporations who do these cancer walks/runs get fat tax deductions and they sucker people into doing all the work while they get the deduction. If you really want to do something against cancer, donate directly. Not through a corporation as what I'm about to tell you here will piss you off (as it should).

A corporation can pocket 85% of proceeds as "administrative costs" and only has to donate 15% to the cause to get the label.
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Greg C.
14 years ago

FYI - More women die of heart disease than breast cancer in this country. You'd never know it with political correctness gone amuck.

"zombieslayer" wrote:



My mom died of breast cancer when she was 49. My friend's sister died of breast cancer when she was in her 30s. I sure don't hear of many women in those age groups dying of heart disease.

I don't have any illusions about the NFL or any corporation being altruistic. It just seems to me that people could find better things to bitch about than this.
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zombieslayer
14 years ago
From the Centers of Disease Control & Prevention, paid for your tax dollars:

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

* Heart disease: 616,067
* Cancer: 562,875
* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 135,952
* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 127,924
* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 123,706
* Alzheimer's disease: 74,632
* Diabetes: 71,382
* Influenza and Pneumonia: 52,717
* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 46,448
* Septicemia: 34,828

Note that Cancer is ALL types of cancer put together. This is 2007. Don't ask me to find 2009 as that site is a nightmare to navigate.

And like I said, my heart goes out to ANYONE who has cancer. My wife's best friend's daughter has lymphoma and may or may not survive. She's in her 20s. I wouldn't wish dying of cancer on my worst enemy. She's been fighting it for years now.

One of my best friends in the 4th grade died of heart disease. He was a smart kid, one of the smartest in his class. He died so young I forgot about it until you brought up age.
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nerdmann
14 years ago

Why do they need a little pink ribbon on the ball which nobody can see?

"Packerchick" wrote:





All this pink bullshit is to try to get women interested in football. It's F'n stupid. Like guys who try to act all sensitive, because they think that's what a woman wants to hear. Excruciating.

"nerdmann" wrote:



You men are so insensitive. You obviously do not have a woman in your life. I have had a realitve who has licked breast cancer, how do you think you would feel if you had a relative or friend who had cancer in any form or any other illness for that matter?

"K_Buz" wrote:





Just because I'm an asshole, doesn't mean that this isn't dumb bullshit.
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Greg C.
14 years ago

From the Centers of Disease Control & Prevention, paid for your tax dollars:

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

* Heart disease: 616,067
* Cancer: 562,875
* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 135,952
* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 127,924
* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 123,706
* Alzheimer's disease: 74,632
* Diabetes: 71,382
* Influenza and Pneumonia: 52,717
* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 46,448
* Septicemia: 34,828

Note that Cancer is ALL types of cancer put together. This is 2007. Don't ask me to find 2009 as that site is a nightmare to navigate.

And like I said, my heart goes out to ANYONE who has cancer. My wife's best friend's daughter has lymphoma and may or may not survive. She's in her 20s. I wouldn't wish dying of cancer on my worst enemy. She's been fighting it for years now.

One of my best friends in the 4th grade died of heart disease. He was a smart kid, one of the smartest in his class. He died so young I forgot about it until you brought up age.

"zombieslayer" wrote:



Breast cancer is getting a lot of attention because it tends to strike at a young age and it is more preventable through early detection than most other diseases. There's really no need to get competitive about this anyway. If someone wants to raise money or raise awareness for one disease or another, I don't see the harm in it.
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zombieslayer
14 years ago
Greg - With all due respect, money is limited. If you raise funding to one area, you'll have to cut funding to another.

If you were an alien coming from another planet and you saw nothing but American television, you'd think that America has 3 professions - doctors, lawyers, and cops, and that Americans all die of either AIDS or breast cancer.

Death sucks, no matter the cause. The most preventable deaths are car accidents. If I die before the age of 80, it will be in a car accident. Guaranteed.

Instead, it's all lobbies for who complains the loudest. Men & women both die of about the same cancer rates but women cancers gain more money. Why? They complain louder. I'll probably get reamed for saying that but numbers are numbers. Yet, you have politically correct activists who say crap like "if men died from breast cancer, it would have been cured by now."

Oh, really? So, we've cured prostate cancer and testicular cancer? I don't think so. Stuff like that pisses me off.

Breast cancer isn't funny. If someone lost a breast, I would feel real bad for them. If they died, I'd feel really, really bad for them.

Yet at my last full-time job, we had a manager who lost a testicle to cancer. Two women were JOKING about it.

So why am I making a deal out of this? Because like I said, raise government funding for one thing, you gotta cut something else.

I got an idea. How about we raise funding for ALL cancers and cut funding for the Homeland Security, which is about as useful as, hmm..., can't think of anything as useless as Homeland Security.
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