The ice bucket challenge

[Inky_Wretch]

If you're one social media, I'm sure you've seen this. Sports figures, celebrities, even members of the media dumping buckets of ice water on their heads to "raise awareness about ALS." Roger Goodell has done it. Peter King has done it. Paul Bissonette did it with a helicopter. The entire NE Patriots team did it together.

Are those dumping the water on their heads also donating to charity?

 

[Walter Lippmann]

The ones adding in the ice right before, or not at all, are showing real toughness.

 

[cjericho]

Yes they are donating.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Can't wait until someone dies of a heart attack from this.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Wimps.

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[ChrisLong]

Been kinda fun and for a great cause. Jimmy Fallon was challenged by Justin Timberlake and last night accepted the challenge with guest Rob Riggle and the Roots, a mass ice bucket dumping. Fallon then challenged the NY Jets.

 

[cranberry]

Are those dumping the water on their heads also donating to charity?

My guess is that some are and some aren't. All, however, are involving themselves in a campaign to raise funds and awareness for ALS.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Yes they are donating.

OK. I just never see that mentioned. It's always "I challenge you to the ice bucket challenge!" No mention of a donation.

 

[Walter Lippmann]

Awareness has slightly greater utility value than clicktivism and hashtags.

 

[cranberry]

Yet, thanks in great part to awareness driven by celebrity involvement, this campaign will generate more revenue than all previous ALS fundraising programs.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

$5.7M this year. Pretty impressive. Guess that's a little more important than "clicktivism" or hashtags.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Can't wait until someone dies of a heart attack from this.

George Allen died from ventricular fibrillation about a month after his Long Beach State team gave him a Gatorade bath following the final game of the 1990 season.

 

[bigpern23]

$5.7M this year. Pretty impressive. Guess that's a little more important than "clicktivism" or hashtags.

Yeah, this has really turned into an impressive fundraising machine. I saw one statistic early on that it had raised $168,000 for ALSA.org in one week, compared to $14,000 the same week last year. I know since then, those numbers have continued skyrocketing.

I just had to complete challenge today. Donated $100 upon completing it. I'm sure some people don't bother to actually donate, but the numbers show that many, many more are logging on and donating.

It's a brilliant piece of social marketing.

 

[JackReacher]

It's harmless fun. It's free advertising for the ALS Association. And, more importantly, it has apparently helped raise a ****load of money for a good cause.

Man. What assholes!!

 

[LongTimeListener]

They should go for a Deion-McCarver reunion.

 

[cjericho]

Can't wait until someone dies of a heart attack from this.

You listen to Howard Stern? Yesterday, he was saying something like that will probably happen.

 

[cranberry]

They should go for a Deion-McCarver reunion.

That would be so awesome.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I saw Gregg Doyel did it on CBS Sports and then challenged the coaches at Cincinnati.

 

[User 11148]

Many years ago I recall a D1 baseball team (can't remember which, but it wasn't from one of the five major conferences) winning its regional while its coach, afflicted with ALS, watched from a specially equipped van. When the victory was sealed, the players doused the van with ice water. One of the most powerful things I've ever seen.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Many years ago I recall a D1 baseball team (can't remember which, but it wasn't from one of the five major conferences) winning its regional while its coach, afflicted with ALS, watched from a specially equipped van. When the victory was sealed, the players doused the van with ice water. One of the most powerful things I've ever seen.

East Carolina coach Keith LeClair died of ALS. Was it him?