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Hearing the NPR report this morning on last night's college football championship, including how, in Austin right after the game, fans were already wearing their 2006 Champion t-shirts, I was reminded of how we made up t-shirts at the bookstore in Kansas prophylactically like that. In particular we had hundreds of Fiesta (or Holiday?) Bowl winner shirts on hand one year, ready to reap the bounty of bucks if the team won. I asked what we'd be doing with the shirts if the team lost (which it did); the answer was that they'd probably be donated to charity heading out of the country (no doubt for a tax deduction). Somewhere in Central America---where there had been an earthquake, I think---had gotten a truckload of the last no-good-after-all optimistic-for-a-cash-in shirts.

I never did find out where specifically the K-State Fiesta/Holiday Bowl loser/winner shirts ended up. It's a funny and embarrassing thought. But I guess we couldn't have thrift stores in Junction City selling 'em, or the homeless of Ogden wearing 'em, could we. Walking around bearing false witness on who won the big football game could prompt serious fights, or maybe even arrests.

Comments

[squirrelykat.livejournal.com]

yeah, i was amazed when i saw those texas dudes with their championship shirts right after the game ended! you know those USC people had them made, too. they were so sure they were gonna win. ha! maybe they have to burn them......
there was a scandal here in A2 back in 1997-1998 when UofM won the National Championship - the USA today poll and AP polls split the team at the top (UofM and Nebraska) - then they made shirts `we're the REAL champs'.....