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Pink doesn't usually fit in the testosterone-drenched world of football. But it will be all over Land Shark Stadium on Sunday, like it will be all over the NFL as the Dolphins and the league support Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Players will have pink cleats, wristbands, gloves, sideline caps, helmet decals, captains' patches or towels. Coaches will wear pink caps and pink ribbon pins. Goal posts will be wrapped in pink padding. The balls used by kickers will have pink ribbon decals.
``I know people think of [the NFL] as male-driven,'' said Jeanette Sparano, wife of Dolphins coach Tony Sparano. ``Obviously, all the players are men, all the coaches. But they all have a mom, a grandmom and an aunt, maybe a sister, a wife, a daughter. So it affects them as much as it affects all of us.''
Jeanette Sparano, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and several players' wives will be handing out pink ribbons at stadium entrances. In the Ocean Drive Club, Kara Ross, wife of owner Stephen Ross, will host a special pregame reception with Jennifer Lopez that will feature an Ocean Drive Magazine pink fashion show and an auction with several pink items. Auction proceeds will go toward the Miami Dolphins Foundation's support for Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The Dolphins, with the support of the Boar's Head food company, also will be offering their $80 upper sideline seats for $52 for the three October home games and donating $10 for every such ticket sold to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The cause isn't a distant one for the Dolphins. Roberta DeLeone, wife of tight ends coach George DeLeone, died last spring at 57 from breast cancer. Jeannette Sparano has a sister and aunt who are breast cancer survivors. Dolphins CEO Michael Dee said his mother and mother-in-law are breast cancer survivors. Link...