Anybody Up For a Caper?
If you caught the end of the Superbowl, you might have noticed the winning team suddenly adorned with memorabilia festooned with bold fonts and logos proclaiming their particular team the victor. Obviously, this requires Reebok (the Official Cheap, Wearable Junk Supplier of the NFL) to have enough pre-printed material to clothe the players and staff of both teams at the same time.
Thus, when the game is over, there are 288 shirts and hats stating the wrong team as the victor.
With security to rival the MacGuffin of any caper movie, these unusable and instantly anachronistic items are transported to a warehouse a few blocks from where I live. They’re not disclosing the specific location of this warehouse, but this article on the subject specifically mentions Sewickley, Pennsylvania as the destination.
Well, the first destination. Then they send the stuff over to Africa to clothe the needy.
But if I had the means, the moral latitude, the desire, the skill or the ability, I would totally find a way to get my hands on those things and then make a goddamn fortune.
At least until eBay reports me to the authorities and I do a lot of jail time. So maybe it’s not exactly worth it.
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I have always wondered how they did those shirts. It does seem kind of excessive to print up shirts for both teams. The world isn’t going to end if we don’t have t-shirts for the winners until the next day.
We were just talking about this as I was leaving work today. I have a bunch (hundreds) of t-shirts that we would love to donate to this. So I am down for tracking that place down.