# Celebs Wearing Yellow Bracelets

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 4, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925 "2004-11-04T05:05:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925/1 "2004-11-04T05:05:11Z")

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I’ve noticed several of them in the past couple of days wearing them. I’m assuming that it’s to remember the troops, but I don’t know for certain (Tom Brokaw is on Letterman with one now). If it’s not that, then what is it? When did it start?

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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925/2 "2004-11-04T05:13:09Z")

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It’s a [LiveStrong](http://www.nike.com/wearyellow/index_f.html) bracelet, named after Lance Armstrong and manufactured by Nike. Profits go to cancer research (actually the Lance Armstrong Foundation).

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925/3 "2004-11-04T05:13:21Z")

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Nope. Nothing to do with supporting the troops.

Everything to do with cancer and Lance Armstrong.

See [http://www.laf.org/](http://www.laf.org/)

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925/4 "2004-11-04T05:40:48Z")

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Oh, thanks for asking that! All these people at my gym wear them and I never think to ask.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925/5 "2004-11-04T06:05:14Z")

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Not just celebs, dopers wear them also.  
I have seen one on **Scout1222** ’s wrist and I wear one also.

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**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925/6 "2004-11-04T07:37:31Z")

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They’re so popular that the girls working at the Krispy Kreme begged to know where I got mine, and I caught one of my 9th grade students wearing a yellow rubber band with “LIVESTRONG” written on it in marker.

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**Author:** ![fc1114](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@fc1114](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fc1114)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebs-wearing-yellow-bracelets/272925/7 "2004-11-04T08:06:35Z")

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They were sold out for a while but they can now be found at Niketown stores.