Where do the Losers' Super Bowl T-Shirts Go?
Monday. 2.5.07 1:17 am
Immediately after the Super Bowl ends, members of the winning team will don hats and T-shirts celebrating their championship. Obviously, that means T-shirts proclaiming both "Colts Super Bowl XLI Champs" and "Bears Super Bowl XLI Champs" have already been made. So what happens to the shirts for the losing team?
They're shipped to Africa.
The other set of championship gear - the 288 T-shirts and caps made for the team that did not win - will be hidden behind a locked door at Dolphin Stadium. By order of the National Football League, those items are never to appear on television or on eBay. They are never even to be seen on American soil.
They will be shipped Monday morning to a warehouse in Sewickley, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where they will become property of World Vision, a relief organization that will package the clothing in wooden boxes and send it to a developing nation, usually in Africa.
Major League Baseball actually destroys the shirts for its World Series losing team. Good for the NFL for doing something good with clothing that otherwise wouldn't have much use.
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1. Actually, the gear is hidden behind a locked door so that it can be shipped to the winning team from an "ALTERNATE DIMENSION". This allows the NFL to save the costs in at least one dimension. Major League Baseball has never subscribed to the theory that there is more than one dimension, so they don't share. This attitude from MLB also explains why the "World Series" only allows teams from one country on one continent to compete.
Posted at 7:18AM on Feb 4th 2007 by bob
2. poor African children don't even know who won the super bowl.Let's give them their own Disney commercial.
Posted at 7:30AM on Feb 4th 2007 by dfree
3. The NFL sends the shirts over as blankets cause a 4x
Tee doesn't do undernourished kids much good anyhow!
Just food for thought!
Posted at 8:04AM on Feb 4th 2007 by mike
4. Thank you NFL for thinking of someone less fortunate.
Posted at 8:04AM on Feb 4th 2007 by Bobby Kent
5. i think it's great that they are going to be used even though they might not understand what it means to win the superbowl.i REALLY would like a shirt that says"my team lost" but at least we made it to the big dance..
Posted at 8:29AM on Feb 4th 2007 by susan priest
6. anyway to help people that have less then we have has to be a positive
Posted at 8:45AM on Feb 4th 2007 by bud kearnes
7. At least it's something. Every little bit helps. It's good to see that all those Colts shirts will have SOME use.
Posted at 9:04AM on Feb 4th 2007 by Len Hall
8. R A M O N E . . .
TELL BOB TO CHECK HIS MAP...
CANADA IS A SEPARATE COUNTRY (sort of).
LOVE,
MOM
Posted at 9:15AM on Feb 4th 2007 by STEVE FROM YELLOWSTONE
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