I’ve always wondered this. Like, are the people predicting hard as to who’ll win? And how the hell do they make all of the shirts and hats that the winning team will celebrate by wearing just in time that they won the big trophy by?

Have other teams gotten things made for them once they got far in like the NBA Finals, the World Series or so but when they lost, they had to discard the made hats and shirts?

How does any of this work?

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
    83·
    3 days ago

    It’s not really important history to be fair.

    The bigger deal is it can fuck with local economies:

    The International Impact of Donated Clothing https://borgenproject.org/the-international-impact-of-donated-clothing/

    While exporting used clothing helps repurpose material from the U.S., it can seriously undermine the textile industries of developing countries.

    And still harms the environment:

    Your used clothing donation may be doing more harm than good https://news.mcmaster.ca/used-clothing-donation-garments-environment/

    In addition to clogged drains, each day about 154,000 lbs. of used clothing leaves Accra’s main garment market bound for a dump on the banks of the Korle Lagoon.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Hard to wrap my head around the fact that we send so many clothes to Africa that it’s fucking up their economies and polluting like that. I learned about this years ago and it’s still a thing?!