Ask the NFL to join the Wellness Wonder Team!

football The NFL should reverse their ridiculous decision not to provide information about the new, affordable health coverage options available to millions of their fans beginning in October.

In fact, we think the NFL should unite with thousands of MomsRising members who have joined our Wellness Wonder Team and pledged to share information about new, affordable health insurance coverage with their communities.

Urge the NFL to join MomsRising's Wellness Wonder Team to help share information about new, affordable health insurance options with their fans by adding your name to our letter to the right.

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Dear Commissioner Goodell,

We urge you to reconsider your position against the NFL helping to promote new, affordable health insurance options that will soon be available to millions of your uninsured fans. As a league that is committed to promoting healthy living, at your games and off the field, the NFL should take the opportunity to help spread the good news about more accessible health coverage.

We invite you to stand with thousands of mothers and caregivers, many of whom are supporters and big fans of the NFL, by joining the MomsRising Wellness Wonder Team. Team members simply commit to share information about new, affordable health insurance options with their communities.

Working together, we can help connect families to critical health coverage.

Sincerely,

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Subject: Tell the NFL to reconsider Your message to friends:

Hi,
I just signed this letter asking the NFL to reverse their decision not to help spread the word about new affordable health insurance options. (See the email below.)
Will you sign it to?
Thanks,
Friend

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Dear Friend,

Donna Christensen, a Seattle Seahawks season ticket holder, is "disgusted."

In her email to us, she wrote:

“I would like to urge you to tell the National Football League (NFL) to reverse their decision not to share information about new health insurance options. The NFL promotes healthy living at their games and off the field—it makes no sense to promote one and not the other. They should have the courage to stand up to this handful of elected officials and let them know people are more important than the petty politics of Congress."

Donna wrote in reaction to our recent action alert about how some members of Congress had convinced the NFL and five other professional sports leagues not to provide information about the new, affordable health-coverage options available to millions of their fans beginning in October.[1]

Ridiculous, right?!

We whole-heartedly agree with Donna that the NFL should reverse their ridiculous decision. In fact, we think the NFL should unite with thousands of MomsRising members who have joined our Wellness Wonder Team and pledged to share information about new, affordable health insurance coverage with their communities.

Click here to urge the NFL to join MomsRising’s Wellness Wonder Team now: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/nfl_wwt/?source=taf

Wellness Wonder Team members have signed up to share information about new, affordable health insurance options with at least ten people.

And we know that the NFL will have NO problem meeting that commitment! Last season, NFL broadcasts were seen by 200 million people, representing 80% of all television homes.[2] Millions of those viewers are uninsured and don’t know that they might be eligible for free or low-cost coverage.

Football fans need the NFL to reconsider. Football is all about teamwork, and we need the NFL to join our team to help connect millions of uninsured parents with affordable health coverage. Professional sports teams have helped promote similar programs in the past—like the Medicaid Part D coverage and health reform in Massachusetts—because that’s an effective way to reach many "hard to reach" audiences.[3] And moms are asking them to help again.

Why would the NFL listen to moms? Because the NFL needs and wants us! Women are an important and growing segment of the NFL’s fan base. A Dallas Cowboys executive vice president remarked, “We clearly get that our female fans are our consumers. They’re really the ones that make our business tick.”[4]

Let's flex our mom power and ask the NFL to join our MomsRising Wellness Wonder Team today: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/nfl_wwt/?source=taf

If busy moms and caretakers can pledge time to spread the good news about new health insurance options, the NFL can join our team too!

Together, we are a powerful force for women and their families,

- Ashley, Nina, Felicia, Angelique and the whole MomsRising.org team

P.S. Show the NFL that moms and caregivers are behind them—join the Wellness Wonder Team yourself now! http://www.momsrising.org/wellnesswonder?source=taf

P.P.S. The Wellness Wonder Team is already getting some great attention from the media! Check out this Politico article with quotes from our Executive Director, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/obamacare-because-mom-said-so-93585.html

[1] “NFL Says No to Promoting Obamacare,” The Washington Post, June 28, 2013.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/nfl-says-no-to-promoting-obamacare/2013/06/28/1d02af1e-e026-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html

[2] “N.F.L. Hones Message for Its Female Fans,” The New York Times, January 5, 2013.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/sports/football/nfl-hones-message-for-its-female-fans.html

[3] “Humana Signs its First Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan Beneficiary,” PR Newswire, November 15, 2005.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/humana-signs-its-first-medicare-part-d-prescription-drug-plan-beneficiary-55590562.html

[4] “N.F.L. Hones Message for Its Female Fans,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/sports/football/nfl-hones-message-for-its-female-fans.html

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