Where Do the Losers Super Bowl T-Shirts Go?
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 t
