Pretty cute trick, but I really wanted to know how it’s executed. Thanks to some kid, I now know.
A Shockingly Small Amount Of Money From Pink NFL Merchandise Sales Goes To Breast Cancer Research
According to data obtained from the NFL by Darren Rovell of ESPN, the NFL “takes a 25% royalty from the wholesale price (1/2 retail), donates 90% of royalty to American Cancer Society.”
In other words, for every $100 in pink merchandise sold, $12.50 goes to the NFL. Of that, $11.25 goes to the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the NFL keeps the rest. The remaining money is then divided up by the company that makes the merchandise (37.5%) and the company that sells the merchandise (50.0%)
Then consider that only 71.2% of money the ACS receives goes towards research and cancer programs.
In the end, after everybody has taken their cut, only 8.01% of money spent on pink NFL merchandise is actually going towards cancer research.
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Bag of Randomness
- WifeGeeding found out yesterday that one of our neighbors is the daughter of Heisman Trophy winner and Oklahoma Sooner Billy Simms. I use to be a member of gym right next to Valley Ranch and he was there with the trophy. He was really nice and even let me pick up the trophy and gave me a signed photo of him.
- I get a kick out of how OtherDogGeeding will come out and give me a look like “Dude, get to bed already, you are throwing me off schedule” when I’m staying up later than normal.
- This picture of a very young Prince Charming and Cinderella made me think of the Sandlot’s Squints and Wendy Peffercorn scene. That actress actually had a role in ‘Mad Men’ last year as Joan’s old friend who took her out for a night on the town.
- ‘Person of Interest’ threw me for an emotion loop at the beginning when I saw Bear was sick.
- Gov Good Hair with Glasses is number 18 on Worth’s list of 100 Most Powerful People in Finance. I actually rode the elevator with number 93 on the list.
- President Obama was asked a softball question from a local New York reporter about what’s the coolest thing about being President. He basically said knowing that just about anybody would take your phone call.
- Barry the Wise County Blogging Lawyer made mention that his wife bought a replica of the Dallas Morning News published the day after JFK was shot. That reminded me of the time I was cleaning out a barn in East Texas with my father-in-law and tore open a garbage bag only to find this.
- CNN.com is getting a bit goofy as of late. The lead story will contain some kind of metaphor and they will post an image of the metaphor. For instance, they made some reference about how Congress negotiations are going as slow as a turtle and the image for the story is that of a turtle.
- It’s hard to take anyone seriously when they email me using an AOL address.
- Nails on a chalkboard – Listening to The TICKET’s Internet stream and hearing the girl that just graduated from high school talk about her dad buying her dream car BMW from Reagor Dykes Auto Group for the umpteenth million time.
- Yes, that was my GNG email Bob Strum read on the air yesterday regarding my neighbor that mows the lawn shirtless.
- NBC News Interactive – Who’s in the American center?
- What every Longhorn hopes for each Texas/OU game. I still can’t believe they won that game with Case McCoy at QB.
- Someone Stole an 18-Wheeler of Monster Energy Drink from the Dr Pepper Bottling Plant
- The First United Methodist Church should consider how they label their chairs.
- WFAA reporter Brett Shipp tweeted this story – Texas leads the nation in government jobs growth
- A Toronto Maple Leafs fans dies and this is how the organization responded.
- Pecan Pie Flavored Pringles
- A Fox Is Living on the White House Grounds and No One Can Catch It Because of the Shutdown
- China swaps pandas for uranium in trade deals
Most folks aren’t familiar of the full version of the Star Spangled Banner
Sports Illustrated released a video of Broadway star Lena Hall preforming all verses of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ before an IronPigs game in August.
EDIT: Here’s the direct link to the video. Originally I embedded the video but it annoyingly autoplays everytime you visit this page.
O say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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