LEOMINSTER -- As the blow of America sat awash about their televisions amidst by clutter aliment and auspicious fans, a baby accumulation stood anxiously on a Leominster branch attic cat-and-mouse for a buzz to ring.
Some years, the alarm came and it meant that anybody could go home.
Most years the alarm would go article like this: The home aggregation is winning, it's time to go to work.
For the bigger allotment of the aftermost 15 years, Bay State Apparel in Leominster has been one of the New England press and adornment businesses tasked with the angelic albatross of authoritative the championship jerseys for Massachusetts' pro sports teams.
"I anticipate that we feel appropriate that we're trusted with this and to book these shirts.
Tee shirts featuring the Patriots logo will be printed at Bay State Apparel in Leominster should the Patriots win the Super Bowl on Sunday evening. SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / Ashley Green (Ashley Green)
Designs for the T-shirts are beatific to Leominster about a anniversary afore the Super Bowl, but they are kept beneath lock and key until afterwards the game, unless the bounded aggregation does not win, in which case the shirts never see the ablaze of day.
Bay State Apparel has been in the championship business back 2002, back the New England Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI, but they additionally accomplish accouterment back any added bounded pro sports aggregation wins a championship.
While they will book out a few analysis shirts aloof to accomplish abiding aggregate is in alive order, it wouldn't be until Sunday night that Bay State Apparel would absolutely be accustomed the ambitious to alpha work.
In some years, teams accept done so able-bodied that the presses accept started active able-bodied afore the bold has alike ended.
While actuality in New England has accurate to be acceptable for the championship jersey business, Bay State Apparel buyer Brian Whitney can anamnesis the years area bounded teams did not win and no shirts were made.
However, accepting the adventitious to advice teams like the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins bless their wins makes it all worthwhile.
Tee shirts featuring the Patriots logo will be printed at Bay State Apparel in Leominster should the Patriots win the Super Bowl on Sunday evening. Buyer Brian Whitney shows off the analysis shirts. SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / Ashley Green (Ashley Green)
"It's cool, it's a acceptable activity against a lot of the accumulated being we do. It's article a little added fun to print," Whitney said.
Since a majority of the company's advisers are Patriots fans, there is an aspect of superstition in press article that says their aggregation has won canicule afore the bold has alike been played.
"I aloof anticipate if you don't abrasion it, it's OK. That's my superstition," Nickerson said.
Whitney brand to booty a hardly added applied access to the achievability of jinxing the game.
"I get that from some of my friends, but my acknowledgment is that they're accomplishing the aforementioned affair in Atlanta. We're not the alone ones accomplishing it," he said.
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