Copycat wristbands

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » October 22, 2004, 7:19 pm

The whole Lance Armstrong Foundation "Livestrong" yellow wristband phenomenon has spawned a litter of copycats:

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The Bush/Cheney blue wristband is especially sad and pathetic. Unless people are buying them to help fund a cure for Bush and Cheney?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 22, 2004, 7:32 pm

I wear a rubberband on my wrist but that is just in case I get ambushed by a coworker walking out of my office and need to retaliate.

The Lance thing is great but as with anything, you have to expect copycats the longer and more popular something gets.

Kaldaur · Post by **Kaldaur** » October 22, 2004, 7:39 pm

Bush/Cheney 2004: Fighting Cancer and Kerry at the same time!

Truant · Post by **Truant** » October 23, 2004, 10:26 am

I saw a tv commercial before the NLCS one for red bands for the St Louis Cards.

I gave my LanceBand to a guy from Scotland

He was going to take it back to his mother who was just diagnosed with breast cancer.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » October 23, 2004, 10:40 pm

I'm bothered by it, but realize there's nothing you can do about it. I feel it cheapens the Lance Armstrong bands that thus far have been an original idea and meaningful (mostly) for those that wear them. Just like how the little ribbons were when they first came out (first was red for Aids wasn't it?).. now you've got one for everything you can think of, and some using colors that had meanings for other things.

I recently read that there's over 16 million of the Lance bands out and aboot.. I believe his initial goal was 6 million. I'm sure he's quite pleased with how it's caught on.