Why don't they make both teams wear all pink while they're at it. Every announcer, of every game has complained about it today. 
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been going on for years not a fan of it either its difficult to see and all this breast cancer awareness stuff is overrated. The survival rate as long as its diagnosed earlyComment -
Thank Dante Cano from last year
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Save the
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The pink is getting out of hand. It has become more self serving attention grabbing than anything else.Comment -
Probably that idiot Goodell's ideaComment -
I bet it won't happen for the next games. Good ideas sometimes go too far.
NFL = +1 for trying, but -2 for Failing... enough said.Comment -
Yeah, what's next is the losing team gonna have to wear dresses the next game?
Huh? Am I right fellas or what?Comment -
When did this pink nonsense begin the 70s ?Comment -
Bluehorse hasn't seen a rack in over 35 years -180 (100 sbr point max)Comment -
The new awareness movement for corporations to bank off illnesses while trying to make us more "aware" of what we already know. I think Nov will have brown flags for colon cancer, and December is rainbow flags for aids awareness if I'm not mistaking.
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give the thank on the liberals americans!
want make put pink flag on field and penis so much sweaty of ymca homosexual in the hole of ass of all the mans
but! give thank on the russia! theys make put cork on the hole of ass of all the mans in the russia. penis is for the womans, make shopping is for the womans, pink flag is for the womans. is truth!Comment -
Sarunas if I send you a hooked on phonics set for English grammar would you put it to good use?Comment -
Horsey I am no ghost I can assure of that. I tried to make a simple joke and I was upended by the russian.Comment -
Seriously get real. Rough that it affects your game-watching experience sitting on the couch and not being able to identify flags in the split-second manner you're used to. The NFL really screwed you guys over....Comment -
sure buddy..why ever do anything for the benefit of anyone! must be a liberal thing.Comment -
I don't have a problem with the pink flag for this month since it has a purpose.
People can acknowledge a pink flag as a totally foreign thing on the field as easily as they can a yellow flag.
The color doesn't matter.
Maybe you should e-mail Goodell.Comment -
Listen, I don't say this as an insensitive prick.
Who wouldn't want to be the head of this breast cancer charity right now? Making absolute bank. This has nothing to do with a cure like AIDS. This is just simply an "awareness" thing. Meaning, if Breast Cancer becomes absolutely non-existent in the immediate future, these guys can still be running this foundation for the families who have had to deal with it.
Charities ladies and gents. One of the last great rackets of our time.
That said, I fully support this thing. Think the pink looks cool.
The issue with the towels though is unnecessary.Comment -
They're going to be doing this all month? You've got to be shitting me. This breast cancer outfit must have some marketing geniuses, because the exposure that they get is mind boggling. They've got to be swimming in cash, but are we any closer to a cure?Comment -
The NFL touts that it's raised $3 million for the ACS since 2009, "with the majority of the donation coming from the sale of pink items at retail and on NFL Auction." How impressive that total is depends on how much the NFL is actually donating to the American Cancer Society from what they make through the sale of pink products. A recent Business Insider article stated that when B.I. asked the NFL's online shop for the precise amount, the number they got back from the league was 5%.
"If the pink products have a typical 100% mark-up at retail, that means the NFL is keeping 90% of the profit from the sale of Breast Cancer Awareness gear," author Cork Gaines wrote. "And then consider that only 70.8% of money the ACS receives goes towards research and cancer programs. So, for every $100 in sales of pink gear, only $3.54 is going towards research while the NFL is keeping approximately $45 (based on 100% mark-up)."Comment -
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Illiterate oyster.Comment -
Good stuff Bluehorseshoe and it explains what Chalky and myself been saying. Those #'s are sickening though I was just using common sense on how these corporations lure people's bleeding hearts to write a check for a noble cause that ultimately never sees much from it. Based on those #'s though the greed is a little worse than I imagined.Comment -
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And there you go......
Pink is no longer the new yellow in the NFL.
The league won't use its pink penalty flags beyond Monday night's Jets-Falcons game.
The pink flags were part of the NFL's "A Crucial Catch" campaign in support of breast cancer awareness. Coupled with the players' pink equipment, especially their gloves and towels, the pink flags caused confusion among broadcasters, fans, players and coaches Sunday.
The league hadn't specified whether the pink penalty flags would be used through Week 7 like the rest of the breast cancer initiative, "but the experience this weekend solidified that it would be for one week only," NFL spokesman Michael Signora said.
Other elements of the campaign will remain, including pink wristbands and cleats, coins, sideline caps, goal-post padding, kicking tees, skull caps, shoe laces and cheerleaders' pompons until Oct. 21.
Yellow flags will return with Thursday night's Giants-Bears game, the start of Week 6.
"That makes sense," said Broncos safety David Bruton, who kept thinking there were more penalties than the 10 that were called in Denver's 51-48 win at Dallas.
"At times I didn't know if flags were thrown or not just because a lot of guys were wearing pink towels," he said. "So, that makes a lot of sense to go back to yellow so we can know. It's not a bash toward breast cancer awareness. You could see the confusion with our pink towels and the pink flags. You don't know which is which."
Bruton embraces the breast cancer initiative as much as any other player in the league. He donned a pink suit and silk tie on the Broncos' flight on Saturday and even put pink threading in his dreadlocks this month.
Fans and players are conditioned to look for the bright yellow flags against the green grass, and the pink penalty markers didn't contrast as well, leading to criticism on television and Twitter.
The pink penalty flags were first used in a Dolphins-Jets game last Oct. 28 after an 11-year-old wrote Commissioner Roger Goodell with the suggestion.Comment
