🏈 What Happens To The Losing Team's Pre-Printed Merch?

What happened to the Melbourne Storm's winning team merch?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. So Liam was over for
dinner last night, as he's great. He doesn't live at
home anymore now, that does Jack. But they come over
for dinner once a week and I see them all
the time. It's great. I send Jack a text over
the weekend I said, watch out for the double d's
with the double demerits. Yeah, yeah, I don't know if
he was still waiting for a reply. Yeah, well hello,

(00:22):
Welcome to the world of twenty one year olds and texting. Actually,
both boys are very good good They are very vigilant sons.
And I mean that in not in a forced way,
but you know, they're concerned for their dad. They're making
sure that I'm okay. They're fantastic boys. Hal with them.
It's always great to see them this stage of our lives.
As they get older, you just don't see them as

(00:43):
much because they're little rocket ships. They're doing their own thing.
And there's some men have moved out of her own men. Yeah,
all of a sudden, you go, what happened? So Liam
was over for dinner last night, and we saw some
footage on the news of the Penrith Panthers in their
sheds straight after the wind and they're wearing winners jerseys
that have Panthers winners. Grand Final twenty twenty five had

(01:07):
a whole outfit as well. Though there was a shot
and then there was a jacket they had. It was embroidered.
They had the whole thing. And I said, well, what happens.
How quickly have they done this? And obviously they've had
to make all of that for the storm just in case.
And Lim said, because he's a collector of basketball and
other kind of merch from America, he's been trying to

(01:28):
get his hands on some of the stuff from the
loser teams that obviously exists and is out in the
ether somewhere, but you can't buy it. And he pointed
me to this article that explains why I don't know
what happens in Australia, but this is what happens, say
after the super Bowl. So for a long beforehand, they
probably have T shirts and merch for a whole variety

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of teams, but particularly when they know who's going to
be in the finale. In the final, they make items
obviously for both teams because they can't wait until, say,
to go into production until after they've won, because it's
that impulse buying. So what they waste in making it
for both teams, they make up for tenfold in having

(02:09):
things ready to go when the time comes, so that
you can order it online that night, you can buy
it as maybe as you leave the stadium, so it's
ready to go. So what about the stuff for the
team that hasn't won. Why don't we see that floating
around on a black market somewhere. What they do is
that they have bantered. This is in the States with
an organization called Good three sixty so or every bit

(02:32):
of merch from a team that hasn't won from America
goes to this one place in Virginia, and from there
it gets sent to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the
Middle East, and they are in charge of sending it
out to those places, and they're very diligent. They make
sure it's not going to disrupt the local manufacturing market.

(02:52):
But they say how important it is for kids in
these areas, for people and adults to have new, good
quality clothing. And another reason shipping it to those places
is that it can't come back because they a don't
want someone to profit from it. They want this to
be a nonprofit thing. They don't want it to be
bought and sold and find its way back. But also
psychologically and in terms of your brand, you don't want it.

(03:14):
May be funny to have a loser's jersey, to wear
that and think it's a collector's item, but no one
from the merchandise side, no one from the NFL side,
wants that to be seen in America. So it suits
that this stuff goes over and does good work, yep.
But also it means it doesn't get it doesn't surface
in America. What if someone immigrates over here and they've
got the merch What if like a little kid comes

(03:35):
over here on a boat and he's got a panther
or a paramount of twenty twenty two Grand Final winner's shirt.
Good luck to him, Good luck to him, because you'd
love one of the days. Well, that's the thing. They
would be collector's items, which is why they go to
great trouble to make sure that someone a isn't making
money from it and b the NRL wouldn't be embarrassed
by it. Yeah, that's why I held back on getting

(03:57):
out winner's shirts made for the Radio Awards on Saturday.
I think they're safe. Two peat. Two peat we won
last year. Can we have a two people? I think
it's called a repeat it's a no repeat station. What
are we going to do? Two peat