April 7, 200521 yr Arkansas nixes offensive pink jerseys Posted: Tuesday April 5, 2005 11:54AM; Updated: Tuesday April 5, 2005 9:22PM FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas coach Houston Nutt has decided that his players who are caught loafing will no longer wear pink jerseys during practices in an effort to avoid offending breast cancer survivors. Nutt said Monday that he had received negative reaction from people when they saw the players in the pink jerseys. Breast cancer survivors and their supporters often wear pink ribbons and the nationwide Race for the Cure, which raises funds for breast cancer research, uses the color pink as well. "That's the last thing I want to do, is to offend a cancer victim, someone who I know how strong and brave they are," Nutt said. "That was the last thing on our mind, to discredit somebody who has shown a lot of toughness. I've had members of my family who had cancer." Nutt said the coaches are considering another color, possibly burnt orange, the color of Arkansas rival Texas. link In other news: -Houston Nutt will change his name, in fear of offending testicular cancer survivors. -Arkansas will never use red jerseys again either, in fear of offending AIDs awareness people. -Billy Joel: "The house blended in with the street"
April 7, 200521 yr they will use burnt orange jerseys in place. thats so much more offensive to razorbacks anyway. they are so intelligent up there.
April 9, 200521 yr Making them wear pink is totally offensive and politically incorrect. What the coach should do is make the players wear plain white jerseys with "I enjoy erotic homosexual acts!" on the front.
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