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<span class="ncaaBodyText"><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">During their November 1 against Kentucky, members of the Mississippi State football team will wear a pink ribbon decal on their helmets along with pink wristbands to promote breast cancer awareness.</span></span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">To complement the effort, Mississippi State coaches and administrators will wear pink hats and lapel ribbons. The school will also stencil the pink ribbon on the football field in two locations.</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">By adding football to efforts already made by the Bulldog volleyball and soccer teams, officials hope to bring more attention to the battle against breast cancer - and to raise more money.</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">"We want to bring this to another level," said Chad Thomas, the school's athletics promotions coordinator. "Breast cancer has received a lot of national attention over the years, and we felt this was something that we can do on our end. We can be a leader in breast cancer awareness and do our part to help find a cure."</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">In addition to the decals, hats and ribbons, Thomas said the school hopes to host 50 breast cancer survivors at the Kentucky game, with biographical videos of the survivors played on the scoreboard throughout the game. Each of the 50 survivors will release a pink balloon in memory of people in all 50 states who have lost their lives to breast cancer.</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Thomas said the Mississippi State athletics department is no different from any workplace. Most staff members have been touched by the disease and are happy to support the cause in any way they can.</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">"This really hits home with everybody," he said.</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
 
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<span class="ncaaBodyText"><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">During their November 1 against Kentucky, members of the Mississippi State football team will wear a pink ribbon decal on their helmets along with pink wristbands to promote breast cancer awareness.</span></span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">To complement the effort, Mississippi State coaches and administrators will wear pink hats and lapel ribbons. The school will also stencil the pink ribbon on the football field in two locations.</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">By adding football to efforts already made by the Bulldog volleyball and soccer teams, officials hope to bring more attention to the battle against breast cancer - and to raise more money.</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">"We want to bring this to another level," said Chad Thomas, the school's athletics promotions coordinator. "Breast cancer has received a lot of national attention over the years, and we felt this was something that we can do on our end. We can be a leader in breast cancer awareness and do our part to help find a cure."</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">In addition to the decals, hats and ribbons, Thomas said the school hopes to host 50 breast cancer survivors at the Kentucky game, with biographical videos of the survivors played on the scoreboard throughout the game. Each of the 50 survivors will release a pink balloon in memory of people in all 50 states who have lost their lives to breast cancer.</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Thomas said the Mississippi State athletics department is no different from any workplace. Most staff members have been touched by the disease and are happy to support the cause in any way they can.</span></p>

<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">"This really hits home with everybody," he said.</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
 
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During their November 1 against Kentucky, members of the Mississippi State football team will wear a pink ribbon decal on their helmets along with pink wristbands to promote breast cancer awareness.

To complement the effort, Mississippi State coaches and administrators will wear pink hats and lapel ribbons. The school will also stencil the pink ribbon on the football field in two locations.

By adding football to efforts already made by the Bulldog volleyball and soccer teams, officials hope to bring more attention to the battle against breast cancer - and to raise more money.

"We want to bring this to another level," said Chad Thomas, the school's athletics promotions coordinator. "Breast cancer has received a lot of national attention over the years, and we felt this was something that we can do on our end. We can be a leader in breast cancer awareness and do our part to help find a cure."

In addition to the decals, hats and ribbons, Thomas said the school hopes to host 50 breast cancer survivors at the Kentucky game, with biographical videos of the survivors played on the scoreboard throughout the game. Each of the 50 survivors will release a pink balloon in memory of people in all 50 states who have lost their lives to breast cancer.

Thomas said the Mississippi State athletics department is no different from any workplace. Most staff members have been touched by the disease and are happy to support the cause in any way they can.

"This really hits home with everybody," he said.
 
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lawdawg02

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we play like girls anyway.

also, the pink ribbons on the helmets would show up more on a maroon helmet than a white one. just sayin...
 
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although I don't really want to drive two hours to Starkville to hear "breast cancer survivor stories" over the Jumbotron. I know that's insensitive, but geez, it's a football game.
 
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patdog

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WTF is a football team doing promoting breast cancer awareness??? If the soccer team or the volleyball team or the women's basketball team wants to do this, that's great. Knock yourself out. But the footbal team??? My brother had tongue cancer (thank God caught early and completely removed in surgery). Where's the 17-ing tongue cancer awareness fundraisers?
 
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I think it's complete PC bs to emasculate the team like that. Release the balloons and tell your story over a garbled PA system that no one will be able to hear, but don't make the team wear pink. I don't see what that accomplishes.
 
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lawdawg02

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it IS national breast cancer awareness month, right? or is that this month? i really don't remember. and if the goal is "furthering awareness", and the athletic department is the one pushing this, then football will reach LOTS more people.

but i agree with you - it's a bit odd that a football team would do this. then again, MLB has pink bats and sweatbands one day during the season.
 
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Todd4State

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donates that stuff to charity. Maybe we'll do the same thing.

I don't have a problem with wearing the pink stuff, but I do have a problem with the sob stories, as I said above.
 
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MSUCE99

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I don't have a problem with wearing the pink stuff, but I do have a problem with the sob stories, as I said above.
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Agreed. After all, we get enough sob stories on ESPN, presidential debates, reality TV, and the evening news.

Leave MSU football out of it. There's enough sob story going on in that stadium without the need to pile on.
 
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patdog

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for all the fundraising efforts to go towards breast cancer when there are plenty of other cancers out there that affect both men and women (or even men only).</p>
 
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Todd4State

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patdog said:
for all the fundraising efforts to go towards breast cancer when there are plenty of other cancers out there that affect both men and women (or even men
only).</p>
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but I suspect a big reason for all of the breast cancer stuff is simply because they probably have a larger foundation than the myriad of other cancers. Yes, it shouldn't be that way, but it is.
 
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Stansfield

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It's a man's sport. Why not bring awareness to a disease or cancer that kills a large majority of men. Who mostly watches football anyways?? Men. Bring awareness to Heart Disease or Testicular Cancer.
 
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MadDawg.sixpack

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I read once that prostate cancer kills 3x the number of men than breast cancer does, but gets about ½ the funding.
 
615dawg

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is we will have good pink, crooked MSU hat pictures tp fark croom.
 
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