CFL Player Fined for Wearing Pink Gloves in Support of Breast Cancer Awareness

Fining a professional football player $200 for wearing pink gloves in support of breast cancer sounds like a bonehead, inconsiderate move. 

Yet that’s exactly what the CFL decided to do this week when it reprimanded Winnipeg Blue Bombers fullback Jon Oosterhuis for wearing pink gloves in a recent game. Despite Oosterhuis and the legion of CFL players requesting to wear pink gloves in games this month, the CFL has deemed them too flashy and has thus banned them. However players, coaches and even referees can still wear pink shoes, sweatbands, and mouth guards and chin straps, which are all auctioned off to support the American Cancer Society.

And the irony is that banning pink gloves is just the kind of story that gets them more attention. Maybe it wasn’t such a bonehead move after all.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s not too late to donate. http://www.cancer.org/