I'll go with stupidity on this one. I'm not a fan of the pink color, but kicking someone off a team for wearing pink cleats, unless there was a specific dress code, is short-sighted.

[Before reading article] Perhaps the school considered it a gang color? Which doesn't make it any less retarded.

[After reading]: Actually, another thing that Cracked has taught me to witness: The title of this article is "Mississippi player kicked off team after wearing pink cleats" . In other words, a player of some kind of game, in Mississippi, got kicked off of a team of some kind (perhaps or perhaps not a team of the same game that the word "player" refers to), and at some point in his life before then, he wore pink cleats (most likely, but not necessarily, either at the team, or with the organization (in this case, a school) that hosts the team, or while out in public and spotted by a member of either.

In this case, it seems that the issue being reported on really is about pink cleats, however, it is unclear whether he was actually kicked off the team for wearing pink cleats, or whether he was kicked off for, for example, swearing at the coaches or kicking somebody, while wearing pink cleats and during a request to take them off, and that his father just *thinks* that that isn't the reason.

This article also uses the phrase "Breast Cancer" as though it were so heinous that "ACTIVITIES RELATING TO BREAST CANCER CAN NEVER BE SUPRESSED11". However, the request to remove shoes had nothing to do with breast cancer at all, and to wear colors/icons/etc. for "awareness of breast cancer" is really dumb. First of all, WHY would you specific a particular location of a disease or disorder, but not include all of the disorder/disease? Have you ever heard of rallies or support for "Asperger's Syndrome in black people" or "Tumors in the lower shin"? But more importantly, have you EVER met ANYONE (over 10) who is not aware of breast cancer?

Edited by God on April 2, 2011 at 4:56:25