Latin America Celebrates the Patriots’ Recent Super Bowl Win
Written by Lotus on Monday, 18 of February , 2008 at 10:57 pm
Ever wonder what happens to all the pre-printed “Super Bowl Champion” t-shirts with the loser team? Time magazine reports:
The fact that the Patriots lost the Super Bowl may be why the celebration was being held in this small Nicaraguan village — because Boston’s loss was definitely Diriamba’s gain, in the form of the “Perfect Season, 19-0″ Patriots T-shirts and hats that Brady, Belichick and Brewski were supposed to have worn on the field after the game. Due to NFL regulations that prohibit the sale of the losing team’s “championship” apparel, the T-shirts and hats were donated to needy Nicaraguans by World Vision, in conjunction with the NFL and Reebok.
Although most of the shirts had been made for six-foot-four, 310-pound tackles, rather than three-foot-eight, 45-pound elementary schoolers, no one complained about the tailoring. That’s because unlike most of clothing worn in this part of the world, the Patriots gear was brand-new — a wonderful novelty, even if everyone in the village now has the same shirt.
Central America has, for years, been a dumping ground for unwanted used clothing from the United States, thanks to church giveaways, hurricane relief drives and other charitable and business endeavors. (See the video) The legacy of that goodwill has turned Nicaragua’s streets into a living, if slightly tattered, scrapbook of pop culture memories: everything from “Avoid the Noid” and “Party Animal, Spuds Mackenzie,” to “I’m Too Sexy for My Shirt.”
Those wearing the tees are either unaware of or unconcerned by the meaning of the English messages they bear. It’s not uncommon to see a man wearing a T-shirt boasting “World’s Best Grandma,” or a young girl wearing a shirt lamenting “Stripping ruined my life.” I’ve seen an old woman in “I Love AC/DC,” an indigenous grandmother with a shirt bragging, “My boyfriend is hotter than yours,” and another disclosing that “My boyfriend is out of town.”
Some of the clothing dumped on Latin America is in such poor taste that it’s hard to imagine how it ever got made in the first place. Like the girl’s underwear in a storefront window inscribed with the creepy message, “I love my uncle.”
Actually, these kinds of language slip-ups happen quite often. My sister works for a toy company and they are always getting samples from China with odd word choices. For Valentine’s Day she sent me a bag of reject candy hearts. Here’s a sampling of some of the cleaner ones.
You Suck
Do Me
Easy Lay
Doggy Style
Lick It
Ahh, the language of love. If you want to hear the dirty ones, it will cost you $4.95 a minute.
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