I dont know if this should be in "On the Streets" or here but it was a big deal that Favre was going to wear pink shoes, of course because he has personal experiences with breast cancer.

But Rodgers is on the short list to wear pink! this weekend.

Pink Gear

Any thoughts? I dont know if pink goes with green and yellow but its for a great cause.

It's great to see the NFL use its clout and position to support such a worthy cause.

That's cool!

some pix.

http://twitpic.com/jri7i

http://twitpic.com/ju0fa

Very stylish. B)

Yeah, classy move for Aaron.

But I'll tell ya this, there is one place on a certain person I wouldn't mind seeing that cleat end up at the end of the night...

Good one Big Dave, i feel the same.

Good thing they didn't have these shoes when Majik was playing.....

Or Nitschke. 3 years next month for my wife with breast cancer. Go Pink

It's for a good cause and all that - no doubt. It sets an interesting precedent though. Which cause(s) does the NFL endorse and allow to bring awareness to? What makes one more worthy than another? This quickly becomes political. How will Cardinal fans feel if their 'support fallen soldiers' campaign doesn't make the grade and result in some type of tribute during the game? etc. etc. I don't like the idea that someone (Tags?) gets to be the political police and decide what does/doesn't get air time (or however it was decided).

Having said this, don't get me wrong on the topic. It's plenty worthy of celebration. I'd just keep it out of the sport itself. Our sprinters in the Mexican 1968 Olympics who gave the "black power" fist on the podium were banished -- was it wrong to support racial equality? No, but Olympics committee tried to keep the games games and not platforms for agendas. Let's not let the NFL become everybody'd bully pulpit.

What I would like to see is every player that is wearing the pink shoes come out and say that for ever TD they run or throw that they will donate $10K to their cancer charity of choice.

I completely agree. Who decides which causes "make the grade"? Will we be seeing rainbow shoes sometime soon in support of gay pride? Where's the red shoes for heart disease? As many former players experience dementia/alzheimers from multiple past concussions, will we see an NFL Dementia day?

There are many, many worthy (and depending on your politics UNworthy, yet socially prominent) causes... I don't think the NFL should be publicly displaying them.

The NFL will support causes that make people think more favorably of the NFL and its players. The NFL will do this because the NFL is a business whose revenue relies, in no small part, on people having a favorable impression of it and its players.

Breast cancer is a gimme for them -- it's hardly as if you have people who are pro-breast cancer, nor does the NFL or playing football in general have anything to do with people developing breast cancer.

It's the exact same reason that you see so much overt display of the NFL supporting troops during NFL broadcasts.

Exactly. Well put. I would argue that the "support the troops" thing is on shaky ground though. That could be a bit of a hot potato, and an issue I wish pro sports would stay out of. It can put people in an uncomfortable place I think. Here's a joke from the late comedian Bill Hicks regarding the first Gulf War, when "support the troops" first really became a part of American culture:
"It was a very stressful time for me, the war. I'll tell you why - I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops. And ah... Not the most popular stance I've ever taken on an issue."

Of course it was dry humor and I hope everyone sees that.

Hmmm...could be true. I just assumed the NFL was actually altruistically supporting the cause b/c it's a good one (as put, who's 'pro cancer'?). The fact that it could be business-driven or a PR move to keep the image of the NFL high wreaks of being PC to me and lacking in integrity. That would be too "flavor of the week" to me.

I believe there is a major PR move to this. They are going after the female audience. Otherwise they would just have a cancer awareness week.

The logical choice for a bunch of men to support would be prostate cancer awareness. But for marketing purposes they support breast cancer awareness.

I in no way think this is a bad thing(valid cause), but don't fool yourself into thinking there isn't a big PR element to this.

Its not just the NFL but MLB is very involved also, pink bats and wrist bands

I saw a lot of guys on every team wearing pink yesterday.