April 6, 200521 yr Arkansas nixes offensive pink jerseys Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2005 11:54AM; Updated: Tuesday April 5, 2005 9:22PM FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas coach Houston Nutt has decided that his players who are caught loafing will no longer wear pink jerseys during practices in an effort to avoid offending breast cancer survivors. Nutt said Monday that he had received negative reaction from people when they saw the players in the pink jerseys. Breast cancer survivors and their supporters often wear pink ribbons and the nationwide Race for the Cure, which raises funds for breast cancer research, uses the color pink as well. "That's the last thing I want to do, is to offend a cancer victim, someone who I know how strong and brave they are," Nutt said. "That was the last thing on our mind, to discredit somebody who has shown a lot of toughness. I've had members of my family who had cancer." Nutt said the coaches are considering another color, possibly burnt orange, the color of Arkansas rival Texas. linky i understand and appreciate not wanting to offend someone with or who has survived breast cancer, but this is taking it too far imo. i could understand it if he was making them wear a pink ribbon or something but associating a pink football jersey with a cancer survivor is a stretch... Edited April 6, 200521 yr by Goldmember
April 6, 200521 yr American hipocracy at its finest hehe... Some folks would take an idea such as making loafers wear pink jerseys to shun them, and try to get them to play better.....and twist it around to being a derogatory thing towards Breast Cancer survivors.. Jesus Christ, what is this country coming to...
April 6, 200521 yr Rainbow jerseys would do the trick. Of course, then you might be offending ANOTHER group.
April 6, 200521 yr That's idiotic in my opinion just get rid of pink jerseys just because of that. I suppose we better start getting rid of the yellow jerseys for prostate cancer. Plain rediculous.
April 6, 200521 yr Oh, this is exceptionally important. What kind of a prick would you be to suggest playing shirts and skins, not knowing if anyone's father was a nudist?
April 7, 200521 yr I need a frickin' chart to keep all these straight. Can we blame this "movement" on Tony Orlando and his stupid tie a yellow ribbon song. Which BTW, was about a guy getting out of prison! http://www.productsforthecure.com/pages/ribbons.html PINK Breast Cancer LT. BLUE Prostate Cancer TEAL Ovarian Cancer GOLD Child Cancer GREY Diabetes Brain Cancer RED DUI AIDS/HIV Substance Abuse GREEN Leukemia Organ & Tissue Donor Environment LT. PURPLE Lupus Alzheimer's RED, WHITE & BLUE Patriotic DARK BLUE Child Abuse Colon Cancer Crime Victim's Rights BRIGHT YELLOW POW/MIA Military Support Missing Children PURPLE Children with Disabilities Domestic Violence Religious Tolerance Pancreatic Cancer Animal Abuse
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