This Super Bowl Sunday , that means dress for either the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles will quickly fill clothing rack and get toss to players on the field once the game concludes . But what happens to the mislay squad ’s habiliment ? It ’s destined for Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae .
“ We like to underscore that this is a solution that drives both social impact and human dignity [ by ] providing high quality , necessitate goods to those who might otherwise go without , ” Shari Rudolph , Good360 chief ontogeny and chief marketing police officer , tell Mental Floss , “ as well as a positive environmental shock [ by ] keeping usable goods out of landfill or from otherwise going to rot . ”
Good360 occupy over the NFL ’s supererogatory trade good distribution in 2015 . For almost two ten prior , an outside humanist help group squall World Vision pull in the undesirable point for MLB and NFL runner - up at its distribution center in Pittsburgh , then ship them overseas to people living in catastrophe areas and impoverished nations . After losing Super Bowl XLIII in 2009 , Arizona Cardinals gear was institutionalize to children and families in El Salvador . In 2010 , after the New Orleans Saints defeated Indianapolis , the Colts gear print up for Super Bowl XLIV was sent to earthquake - ravaged Haiti .
In 2011 , after Pittsburgh lost to the Green Bay Packers , the Steelers Super Bowl wearing apparel went to Zambia , Armenia , Nicaragua , and Romania .
fan of the Super Bowl squad that comes up short can take marrow : At least the spoils of losing will go to a worthy cause .
An earlier edition of this story appeared in 2009 ; it has been update for 2023 . Additional reporting by Jake Rossen .
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