Fans of the University of Georgia Bulldogs traded in their usual red and black for pink at a football game on Saturday, in memory of the opposing team's coach's wife who died of breast cancer last month.
Wendy Anderson, the wife of Arkansas State University football head coach Blake Anderson, died on August 19 after a two year-long battle with breast cancer, theWhen Blake Anderson arrived to play the Bulldogs, he saw that at least a third of the 92,476 fans in Georgia's stadium were taking part in the"pink out," ESPN. Students in the row immediately above the Arkansas State Red Wolves' bench painted"REMEMBER WENDY" on their backs.
"I would say thank you to all those who showed up today wearing pink or thinking pink. They don't know my wife and they don't know me and they didn't have to do it. I'm very grateful and honored and obviously overwhelmed," Anderson added.that University of Georgia alumni Dwight Stanridge tweeted on Tuesday calling for fans to wear pink, writing"DawgNation let's get behind this on Saturday. It's bigger than a football game.
Stanridge, who lost his mother to ovarian cancer when she was 37, told CNN,"It's just the right thing to do."
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