Cartoonist: Pats lost shirts in Superbowl XLII

Rob Rogers, cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has followed the Steelers to Tampa for Sunday's Superbowl and is filing terrific sketches and dispatches on his blog amidst the media maelstrom, like this drawing of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

Rob ran into Don Hasselbeck, father of the Seattle Seahawk's Matt Hasselbeck and Reeboks's director of NFL Sports marketing, who had this tidbit about the Pats' loss last year:

"He recalled how during the last Super Bowl his team was waiting in the wings with huge bins of Patriots Super Bowl champs T-shirts and they had to switch them out at the last minute when the Giants won. I asked what happens to all the shirts they print for the losing team. “They go to World Vision and they distribute them to poor countries who need clothing.” He smiled and said, “there’s a poor child in Nicaragua wearing a triple XL T-shirt that says Patriots: 19-0.”