The Cardinals Care, They Really DO Care
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Well, actually you care, or you and 164,999 of your Monster Thickburger-eating, redblooded, Redbird friends.
St. Louis-based Hardee's, a division of west coast burger emporium Carl's Jr., donated more than $165,000 to the St. Louis Cardinals community foundation, Cardinals Care.
| The proceeds will be used to support the foundation's new youth baseball program, "Redbird Rookies." The program provides equipment and uniforms, as well as off-field health and mentoring support, for more than 2,000 boys and girls throughout the St. Louis area, the organization said. Fans in the St. Louis area, as well as Cardinals supporters in 29 other states, were able to make a $1 donation at Hardees restaurants for each red band. |
You might have seen or actually purchased one of the red wristbands which surfaced near the end of the Cardinals pennant-push in 2004 and are basically red rubberband knockoffs of the yellow Lance Armstrong/Nike "Live Strong" wristbands which benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF).
So far I've seen bands for diabetes, breast cancer, LAF, Cardinals Care, U.S. troops, Tsunami victims, and, of course, the general tolerance of everyone who wears a wristband. Along with the ribbon magnets, which somehow manage to adorn every single minivan and SUV in the midwest (sometimes thrice), wristbands seem to be taking over the United States.
I'm hoping to purchase a wristband/car ribbon magnet package that communicates my undying support for wristband and ribbon magnet manufacturers. Posted by Sean at January 26, 2005 08:37 PM
Ribbon Magnet Manufacturers have to eat too.
Posted by: josh at January 27, 2005 09:56 AMI don't want to get too philosophical (read: off-topic) here, but this reminds me of a quote I read recently. I don't remember it word for word, nor do I remember the source (which makes this post lose a lot of credibility, if it had any to begin with), but it said something about how humans, when given the freedom to do whatever they want, will most likely do whatever everybody else is doing. My point being that I think people are perhaps afraid of what the other PTA members will think of them if they *don't* have a ribbon magnet on their minivan/SUV, so they get one just to be safe. It only snowballs from there. Listen people, if you believe in something, you don't need a wristband or a magnet to tell people. The people that know you should know what you stand for and why. Everybody else doesn't need to know. Especially not the person stuck behind you in traffic.
Posted by: John at January 27, 2005 06:01 PMThat's what blogs are for...
Posted by: Sean at January 27, 2005 07:54 PMOh. So *that's* what blogs are for.
Posted by: Ryan at January 28, 2005 08:12 PM