Local Company Pulls Saints Tee All-Nighter
It's Saints merch mania at one local company, which is printing up to 2,000 shirts an hour
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Drew Brees and Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints hold up championship t-shirts after defeating the Indianapolis Colts.
As Saints fans took to South Florida streets to party after the big win on Sunday night, one local company was hard at work.
As soon as the game ended, the employees at Atlas Embroidery and Screen Printing went to work printing up thousands of Saints Championship t-shirts. More than 50 employees pulled an all-nighter to complete the task, printing tens of thousands of t-shirts to be shipped to retailers all across the state.
Atlas is the only authorized company in South Florida to print the offical NFL shirts, the graphics for which were provided by Reebok. The shirts were even worn by the Saints players after the game in the locker room.
Vice President Adam Cohen said the contract to print the championship shirts means big money for them.
"For the last couple of weeks our employees have been working hard, putting in lots of overtime hours to get these shirts ready to go. Last night we didn't stop production other than a few small breaks here and there. We've been running on cuban coffee and Red Bull, but it will all pay off in the end," said Cohen.
The company was printing up to 2,000 shirts per hour. They'll hit retailers shelves later today.
Posted Monday, Feb 8, 2010 - 1:04 PM EST
