What happens to the losers' "Championship" merchandise.

[lollardfish]

I have always wondered about this.

Fascinating!

Comments

[zinzinzinnia.livejournal.com]

Funky.

At least they don't (technically) go to waste.

Though it is a ridiculous show of waste that they get made in the first place... but that's a whole other matter.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing all kinds of wacky t-shirts in the hilltribes of Thailand. Remote places in the Third World is where used clothing goes.

But this is extra interesting.

Thanks.

B

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I watch, as you know, a lot of sports. And since the players come out with the swag immediately upon winning, I've wondered. My guess would have been an incinerator.

If you ever see a Buffalo Bills superbowl champion t-shirt or hat out there in your world travels, buy it immediately!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"If you ever see a Buffalo Bills superbowl champion t-shirt or hat out there in your world travels, buy it immediately!"

Like I'm going to realize that a particular t-shirt is a "wrong winner" shirt.

B

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

You're from New York, you went to school upstate ...

Buffalo has never won a superbowl. Look for Buffalo, superbowl, and champion in the same sentence

Buffalo Superbowl champion

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Great. This LJ thread is the first Google hit.

B

Re: Buffalo Superbowl champion

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Not on my google. I get wikipedia.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

But the people who print city-related Super Bowl merchandise are required to commit to large emounts of it, and to eat the cost themselves if sales do not live up to expectations. I wouldn't object to the latter so much if it weren't for the former; these people don't get to make their own estimates of how much will sell, which would probably be more accurate. When Houston had the StupidBowl a few years ago, a lot of small businesses lost a lot of money.