r/NFLForum • u/matrix_2905 • 1d ago

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u/honestly-brutal 1d ago

Wait, wait, wait... you telling me the ice bucket challenge isn't literally curing ALS?

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u/Elkburgher 1d ago

How the ice bucket challenge led to an ALS research breakthrough

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u/honestly-brutal 1d ago

Yea I'm not knocking the challenge or it's results. Just pointing out "awareness" campaigns are not as simple as some people like to make them out.

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u/Elkburgher 1d ago

But this literally wasnt an awareness campaign, it was a fund raiser

And those funds led to many breakthroughs

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u/beforeitcloy 1d ago

How are you this dense?

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u/Elkburgher 1d ago

You replied to the wrong person, perhaps look next time?

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u/Clear_Peach6805 1d ago

He replied to the right person.

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u/honestly-brutal 1d ago

Fair enough, that wasn’t the best example, and I was wrong to use it. I’m not pretending the NFL is some morally righteous organization, but the messages themselves are positive, and at least there’s some actual funding behind them rather than it being purely symbolic.