Comments on: What Happens to the Losing Team’s Championship Shirts?

By: KurtRex1453

KurtRex1453 — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:17:47 +0000

This has answered the burning question posed in their song, “Surrender” “What ever happened to all the season’s losers of the year? Every time I got to thinking where they disappear….”

By: Larry-bob

Larry-bob — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:38:58 +0000

One problem with this is that it undercuts the local textile industry. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/business/trade-theory-vs-used-clothes-in-africa.html?pagewanted=all

By: TeamSchwag

TeamSchwag — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:48:00 +0000

Erin- that’s hilarious! And Sarah- wish I would’ve gotten that!

It’s great that they are going to a good cause though. I actually just did a blog post on this as well (www.teamschwag.com)

By: ed968

ed968 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:36:47 +0000

I wrote about this same topic 3 years ago.

http://pointlessobservations.wordpress.com/2006/03/14/what-about-the-other-teams-hats/

By: ollie

ollie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:38:52 +0000

i remember somebody i went to school with his dad owned a merchandise production company and they made about 10k England Euro 2008 flags and banners for cars and houses etc and hats and glasses etc (not one that said we won it but just that we were there) on the fact that it was inconceivable that we would not qualify. unfortunately we didn’t, and he had a whole warehouse of stuff he couldn’t sell.

on the plus side, the super markets had the same problem with quantities of beer, which meant we got cheap beer all summer.

By: Michaelw

Michaelw — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:23:02 +0000

This reminds me of mountains of ketchup being donated to food banks. The value of these clothes better be claimed at close to nothing, because this is a pretty inefficient waste of tax revenue.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:50:41 +0000

They aren’t given to needy people in the US because they would go up on eBay in about ten minutes.

By: Izzi

Izzi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26:54 +0000

I have always wondered what happened to that merch. Thanks for answering this for us.

I would love to get my hands on the Pat 19-0 shirt, despite the fact that it depresses me to see it.

Friend of mine 2 days after the Pats loss to the Giants strolled into my office with this t-shirt — “18 Wins, 1 GIANT Loss” I almost lost it.

I can laugh at that today but at the time i was less than enthusiastic to see that shirt

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:06:02 +0000

My roommate’s aunt and uncle went to the Superbowl with the Seahawks and Steelers, and after the hawks lost, when they went out asking the local shops for any hawks merchandise, the employees looked around and offered a “Ummm… We have these shirts for $5″.

He now has a Seahawks Superbowl Champions shirt.

At least we can dream, right?

By: Blake Helms

Blake Helms — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:35:40 +0000

I saw this first hand in Tanzania a few years back. I saw a kid with a T-Shirt that said Philadelphia Eagles: Super Bowl XXXIX Champions! I was thinking I’m pretty sure the Patriots won then it hit me. Good to see this kind of stuff put to good use. I may have a photo in my Flickr set but I’m to lazy to look through them all http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakehelms/sets/72157602454816172/