Buy A Pink Armon Johnson Idaho Stampede Jersey

The Idaho Stampede, the D-League affiliate for the Portland Trail Blazers, is running a breast cancer awareness auction. One of the items: a pink No. 11 game-worn Stampede jersey to be donned by Blazers guard Armon Johnson during two upcoming games.

There are currently no bids on the item. Great cause and this is about as one-of-a-kind as it gets.

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hmmm

not sure I can afford a $200 jersey today. Maybe after I get my next paycheck and see if I can pay rent. Wait, can I make payment plans? Though I have bad credit so if that’s a problem, maybe not. Maybe if I don’t pay my electric bill next month….
Maybe I’ll buy a cheap car instead so I don’t have to sit in the cold rain and wait for the bus to take me on a 45 minute ride to work. Or maybe if I wore the pink jersey I could get a girl on the bus to notice me.
hmmm

by blazerblaze on Jan 14, 2012 12:41 PM PST reply actions

Ironically, Armon himself probably has more cash to blow on non-essential items than most of us...

If he donates a jersey, it costs him nothing… This feels backwards. It’d make more sense if I give up my favorite shirt and rich basketball players bid on it to raise money for some charity.

by manfredi on Jan 14, 2012 1:37 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

This, Lots of this.

Paul Allen, the 2011 Trail Blazers Owner/GM

by 420Phenom on Jan 14, 2012 3:17 PM PST up reply actions

sort of want

by permaswoon on Jan 14, 2012 12:45 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

It is not a great cause.

Promotion of the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer has not been credited with saving any lives. Wearing or displaying a pink ribbon has been denounced as a kind of slacktivism, because it has no practical positive effect and as hypocrisy among those who wear the pink ribbon to show good will towards women with breast cancer, but then oppose these women’s practical goals, like patient rights and anti-pollution legislation.118 119 Critics say that the feel-good nature of pink ribbons and pink consumption distracts society from the lack of progress on preventing and curing breast cancer.120 It is also criticized for reinforcing gender stereotypes and objectifying women and their breasts.121 Breast Cancer Action launched the “Think Before You Pink” campaign, and charged that companies have co-opted the pink campaign to promote products that encourage breast cancer, such as high-fat Kentucky Fried Chicken and alcohol.122

by ktngo09 on Jan 14, 2012 1:59 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

That doesn't have anything to do with anything.

Good story, but….. this is a case where you buy the jersey, and that money goes to cancer research. It is pretty cut and dry. Just because KFC and alcohol companies may use the pink ribbon doesn’t mean that the Idaho Stampede using it as a fundraiser is any more or less worthy. If there is a lack of progress being made in breast cancer research, it isn’t because of “pink” promotions. And just because some people oppose patient rights and anti-pollution legislation doesn’t mean all people that wear a pink ribbon do. There is no cause and effect relationship between the two.

Everything you said is true and worrisome, but it doesn’t make bidding on this pink jersey a less worthy use of money.

by 7Up on Jan 14, 2012 2:55 PM PST up reply actions

uhhh the cause the profits go to aren’t towards producing more pink ribbons. it goes to “St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute,” which I’m not sure has saved any lives either. but i think they might be doing something positive. like your ideas and your fervor, but misplaced, they are.

by permaswoon on Jan 14, 2012 2:56 PM PST up reply actions