Bill Burr Blasts NFL for Wearing Pink Every October: ‘People Are Aware That There’s Cancer’

Since 2009, the NFL has decorated its field and players in pink every October to raise awareness for breast cancer. At the surface, it seems like a nice gesture, but comedian Bill Burr doesn’t trust the NFL’s motives considering its grimy history.

“Believe it or not, people are aware that there is cancer and people are aware that people have died of it,” Burr ranted on his Monday Morning podcast. “I watch sports to escape that. I do benefits all the f*cking time for this sh*t. I meet people, I see them in the beds f*cking withering away.”

“All of this sh*t is gloom and doom,” Burr said of social media and the news. “I have one oasis, to watch a bunch of people have a ball and try to get it across the f*cking goal line and people have to bring up gloom and doom again. Why are they doing that?”

Many cancer patients echo Burr’s sentiment about decorating TV shows, news segments, and sporting events with breast cancer awareness paraphernalia. And for what? How much of the money spent on breast cancer awareness month actually helps to find a cure?

“They have had a sort of a checkered past when it comes to these things,” Burr said of the NFL. “Where it looks like they’re doing (something for others) and they’re actually making a f*ck load of money off of it.”

In 2013, it was reported that only 8.01% of the money spent on pink NFL merchandise goes to cancer research. Considering the league’s tendency to be frugal and greedy, it shouldn’t come as a surprise their cancer awareness initiative is more for show than substance.

“I’ve been watching the NFL and I’ve seen what they’ve been doing for the better part of half a century,” the comedian explained. “These are the same people who also knew the players were getting brain damage and they suppressed the f*cking information.”

“I’m sure their hearts are in the right place,” Burr said sarcastically of the NFL.

Listen above via the Monday Morning podcast.

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