Where do Super Bowl losers’ hats/shirts go?

You know that both teams printed up “Super Bowl Champs” shirts and caps, right? But only one team can wear them. Where do the other shirts and caps go? They are donated to people in a developing nation, via World Vision.

The Super Bowl ended about 10 p.m. Sunday, and by 10:01 every player on the winning team — along with coaches, executives, family members and ball boys — was outfitted in colorful T-shirts and caps proclaiming them champions.

The other set of championship gear — the 288 T-shirts and caps made for the team that did not win — were 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 were 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.

You can read the full article from the New York Times here. -- Bob