The National Football League has officially flown the coup for the past couple of years. October is breast cancer awareness month. This past weekend, all of the NFL players wore pink on their uniforms to let the whole world know that even large macho men can be pink on the inside. Call me macho and old-fashioned, but this whole breast cancer stuff has gone overboard. The real problem here is that political pressure is emasculating the male species. Football is a manly sport. It should be about the game and the game only. And all of this really serves no practical purpose whatsoever. It does nothing to actually discover a cure for any cancer. And all this pink makes it look like the players are paying homage to the radical anti-war group Code Pink. It just makes big men look silly.
Now I'm not trying to make light of the disease or be insensitive here. All cancers are devasta-ting. Cancer patients go through tremendous pain. But I am saying that the NFL is an inappro-
priate vehicle to raise awareness for breast cancer. And what is behind the obsession with women's breasts besides the obvious, anyway? Don't any women feel uncomfortable with all this attention drawn to them? Breasts are very personal parts of a woman's anatomy. I'd feel much more comfortable if we didn't discuss the matter at all. How would men feel if the NFL players starting wearing black to raise awareness of prostate cancer? Again, it would be a very private issue. I don't know how the players feel about this personally, but I wouldn't want them to be labeled as uncaring grunts if they agreed with me on this. If players want to fight for causes that are personal to them with their own money, more power to them. But charity should be a personal endeavor. It would be much more appropriate if the WNBA took up this cause instead.
In the meantime, let men be men.
In the meantime, I'm lobbying the NFL to pay tribute to President Ronald Reagan, who would
have turned 100-years-old on the same day of Super Bowl XLV - Sunday, February 6th, 2011.
If the NFL is willing to bring back Michael Vick, I think the least it can do is pay homage to a great American President for one glorious moment.
G.J. LaRouche
5 October 2009
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