Super Bowl Champions - Chicago Bears
In the midst of Super Bowl mania this past weekend, I read an article on The New York Times online that made me pause a bit and consider the “other” champions. The article is entitled, Far Away, Super Bowl’s Losers Will Be Champs”. From the article:
The Super Bowl will end about 10 p.m. Sunday, and by 10:01 every player on the winning team — along with coaches, executives, family members and ball boys — could be 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 — 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.
“By order of the National Football Leaague…..” That sounds serious! So where exactly are these items to appear if not on TV, eBay or American soil? Is there anywhere else left? Well, the items will be donated to World Vision, a non-profit organization, who will, in turn, ship the clothes and other items to a developing nation, most likely one in Africa. Whew. All sarcasm aside, I really do feel that this is a good thing. At least the Championship gear will not be wasted.
February 11th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Unfortunately, they will probably be burnt to ashes or hidden in the same damn good place that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are located. Ha ha.
No, not even the dying children of Africa will be able to touch something as precious as the Superbowl losers’ gear. Because the NFL knows…there’s the strong possibility that the kids will somehow crawl their way to an internet ready computer and put up the donated clothing on eBay…