No more pink flags; yellow penalty flags to return in Week 6

Tom Pelissero | USA TODAY Sports

Yellow penalty flags will be back next weekend.

NFL spokesman Michael Signora said in an email to USA TODAY Sports on Monday the pink penalty flags used over the weekend as part of the league's breast cancer awareness initiative won't be used again in Week 6.

The league's initial release on the initiative, which continues through Week 7, didn't specify whether pink flags would stay for the duration. But the flags caused enough confusion on TV broadcasts, when coupled with players' pink equipment, it made sense to go back to yellow.

Other elements of the breast cancer awareness initiative – including pink equipment, coins, sideline hats and goal-post padding – will remain through Week 7, Signora said.

Pink flags made their debut last October for one game – a Dolphins-Jets matchup at SunLife Stadium – after 11-year-old Dante Cano of Marlboro, N.J., suggested them in a letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell.

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