–– David de Bruyn

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Africa receives some American errors that are quite beneficial. For example, before the NBA finals, the Super Bowl or the World Series, sports merchandisers produce memorabilia of both finalists winning, so as to be able to immediately sell when the final is over. Unfortunately, half of that merchandise represents an alternate universe, where the team that lost actually won. What happens to the champions-that-never-were T-shirts and caps? Many of them are donated to African third-world countries, where needy folks wear shirts displaying an event that never happened.