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Pink Awareness Month Had Become Troublesome Hot Potato For NFL, So They Chucked It

So the NFL has moved on from Breast Cancer Awareness Month: their annual support (since 2009) of the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the American Cancer Society which runs through every October. That’s when the league becomes a pink tsunami of uniform and field accessories, with most of the equivalent merchandise available for purchase at the NFL Pro Shop.

Problems:

* As of 2013, out of every $100 of pink NFL merchandise sales, only $3.54 went to actual cancer research. Much of it went toward overhead and salaries: one of the six Susan G. Komen COOs (yes, six) made more than $600,000 in yearly salary.