On Wednesday night, Washington held its annual All-Star Survivors celebration, an event celebrating breast cancer survivors and supporting those currently going through treatment. The event was started seven years ago by then tight end Chris Cooley after watching his own mother go through breast cancer treatment and seeing how the effects of chemotherapy, especially the hair loss, affected her self esteem.
Washington NFL players wear wigs, put on makeup for breast cancer
Washington players made a sweet gesture at an annual event for women battling breast cancer, donning wigs and makeup in solidarity with cancer patients and survivors.
The event is designed to help women going through treatment feel beautiful. The 31 women being honored received gift baskets, new jeans, makeovers, head scarves and wigs to take home. Every year, Washington players try on wigs to show solidarity and cheer up the honorees. This year, some players took it a step further. Tight end Niles Paul took some makeup lessons to help give survivors makeovers. Cornerback Richard Crawford, the good sport that he is, sat in the makeup chair himself to get pampered, complete with false eyelashes.
This is what real men look like.
“This is just wrong,” Crawford said while getting his face done up.
“Real talk, you should keep the eyelashes,” laughed teammate Ryan Clark Jr.
Niles Paul, on why he’s not afraid to be photographed in a wig: “Because there aren’t too many people out there who could whoop me.”
Niles Paul, applying makeup to one of the night’s honorees.
Darrel Young and Adam Hayward stopped giggling long enough to take this photo and for Hayward to point out Young’s resemblance to Rick James.
Nick Sundberg, who started the wig tradition three years ago. On why he went with a red wig this year: “I look terrible as a blonde.”
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