Williams lost his mother, Sandra Hill, to breast cancer in May 2014 and was part of the NFL’s 2009 decision to let teams to wear pink in the month of October.
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The National Football League continues to amaze, and in the worst ways possible. They can’t make money off of you wearing pink, so why would they change the rules?
A self-professed “mama’s boy”, Williams has become a big advocate for breast cancer awareness after seeing what it did to his family. He wanted to wear pink shoes or pink wristbands throughout the year, not just during the traditional breast cancer awareness month of October, to honor his mother and those who have lost loved ones to breast cancer.
Tim Williams of CBS replied to Field Yates’ tweet, and added a fact that shows why this issue is of far greater personal importance to Williams. Hello Roger, just because October is breast cancer awareness month doesn’t mean that we should push it to the back burner for the rest of the season. Apparently, the NFL’s stringent dress code takes precedence to their breast cancer campaign.
Last week, the NFL’s priorities were called into question when Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy returned from a four-game suspension for domestic violence and immediately talked about the attractiveness of Tom Brady’s wife, Gisele Bundchen.
His mother died at age 53, so Williams is paying for 53 mammograms at a hospital in Charlotte, according to ESPN.
We have finally been given our answer: the almighty dollar.
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It’s getting worse, and it needs to stop.
