Will Panthers participate in Breast Cancer Awareness (Pink)?

[JJT]

Who the hell isn't aware of breast cancer?

Is it really necessary to raise awareness of this scourge to the maybe 6 people in THE WHOLE fuging WORLD that don't know about it yet?

BS to me.

[Chaos]

If they do, I'll set up shop outside the east endzone to offer free examinations

forgive me

You talking about prostate exams? Bring lots of those disposable gloves.

[Go To Girl]

Scoreboards will most likely be done in pink as well - usually are

[SMACKDAB]

They have played like they had pink panties on all year long....why change up now?

:confused:

[rayzor]

guess who we have to thank for the pink shoes and all...

As part of the N.F.L.’s support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, players will be wearing hot pink gear starting Sunday: gloves, sweatbands, towels. And cleats. At least 100 players are expected to wear pink shoes. Think sprinter Michael Johnson’s Olympic-era gold shoes, but more neon.

The idea for the shoes came from Carolina Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams. He had heard about the other pink items the N.F.L. had planned for teams and proposed the cleats because of their primacy to players.

“That’s something that’s very, very important for N.F.L. players,” Williams said recently in a telephone interview. “If you have a great cleat and a firm foot in the ground, you can do anything.”

Williams’s interest in breast cancer is intensely personal. It was diagnosed in his mother, Sandra Hill, in August 2004, and is in remission. Hill’s three sisters died of breast cancer — all four women inherited the breast cancer gene from their father’s side of the family, Williams said.

When Hill first received the diagnosis during a regular checkup, she did not tell Williams because he was in the middle of a college football season at Memphis. In fact, Hill waited until a few weeks after a double mastectomy — which she opted for after first trying chemotherapy, Williams said — before telling her son.

“I was a little upset with her at first,” Williams said. “Then I looked at the big picture — she’s still here, she’s still fighting. She went through it without a lot of people knowing. Her detecting it early was the reason she was able to pull through it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/sports/football/30nfl.html

good guy....

[Panthers_Lover]

Who the hell isn't aware of breast cancer?

Is it really necessary to raise awareness of this scourge to the maybe 6 people in THE WHOLE f**kING WORLD that don't know about it yet?

BS to me.

You might be interested in knowing ...

» Because of inadequate federal funding of the breast and cervical cancer screening program, fewer than one in five eligible women get the lifesaving breast cancer screening and treatment they need.

[MadHatter]

Who the hell isn't aware of breast cancer?

Is it really necessary to raise awareness of this scourge to the maybe 6 people in THE WHOLE f**kING WORLD that don't know about it yet?

BS to me.

:banghead:

The program is to help raise funds to find a cure....not to tell people that Breast Cancer exists.

Please ignore the voices in your head....they are telling you to type bad things.

[Sultan33g]

:banghead:

The program is to help raise funds to find a cure....not to tell people that Breast Cancer exists.

Please ignore the voices in your head....they are telling you to type bad things.

lol what an idiot...had 2 aunts with breast cancer..one died so I think if there isn't a cure yet then raising money to find one is a good idea.

[Montsta]

While I support the cause, it's going to be hard for me to blow up some quality Zod photos for my desktop of D-Will blowing past the Skins dline wearing pink gloves. Dammit.

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I thought the pink cleats were legit. So is this a season long thing? Or just for the bye week teams from this past weekend? I thought it was just a one week thing.

[CatMan72]

You would think so considering DeAngelo Williams mother is fighting breast cancer and according to Gannt the whole pink shoes idea was his.

[rayzor]

You would think so considering DeAngelo Williams mother is fighting breast cancer and according to Gannt the whole pink shoes idea was his.

not just gantt....read my earlier post. it was williams idea. the article up above was from the NY Times and was written Sept. 30th. gantt and others are just now talking about williams role in it.

[rayzor]

I thought the pink cleats were legit. So is this a season long thing? Or just for the bye week teams from this past weekend? I thought it was just a one week thing.

supposed to be a one week thing but it was kind of a big deal to williams to take part in it so they are allowing it this week.

[SMACKDAB]

According to what I heard, it's Breast Cancer Awarement Month...not week.