A few minutes ago while reading a friend’s blog (Robert Littal), he was encouraging fellow bloggers to change the look of their sites in support of the NFL’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. That was easy, so if you haven’t noticed, my site is now accented in pink this month. But it also brought me back to thinking about how this disease is wrecking havoc amongst families across the world. I lost a very close cousin last year to this dreaded disease and a co-worker who is a dear friend lost her Mother 2 years ago too.
During games between October 5th and the 27th the NFL has designated all their games as “Breast Cancer Awareness Games”. Each team will do their part during this month with pregame activities and also participate with local groups and charities.
Players will be permitted to wear pink spikes, wristbands, gloves, towels, captain patches and helmet decals. You will also see the baseball caps in pink and the field logo will be the pink ribbon as well.
Anything worn that is pink will be autographed and auctioned off at NFL Auction, with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society and team charities. You can also purchase pink merchandize from the NFL Shop online and at the stadiums too with a portion of the proceeds also going to the American Cancer Society and team charities.
The NFL Referee’s Association will also donate a portion of their game fees to breast cancer charities during the month as you will see the officials don pink accented caps and pins.
As a sports photographer I primarily cover all college athletics and the NCAA throughout the years has done an outstanding job in bringing awareness to this dreaded disease as well. Last season football officials carried pink penalty flags in their pockets and basketball officials wore pink whistles around their neck and in each case donated a portion of their game fees too.
As I close I can’t talk about what the NFL is doing for Breast Cance
r Awareness without some how mentioning North Carolina State University Women’s Basketball Coach Kay Yow. I had the pleasure of covering Coach Yow during her last 3 ACC Women’s Basketball Tournaments. I also had the pleasure of speaking to her at her last ACC Legends Basketball Luncheon something that I will always cherish.
After a long battle with this dreaded disease on January 24th of this year, Coach Yow lost that battle but she is truly winning the War.
Breast Cancer as with other types of cancer, can be prevented by early intervention.~,~
Breast Cancer is one of the diseases that affects most women but it can be detected early and treated early too-’*
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