MILWAUKEE -- The Green Bay Packers didn't win the National Football Conference championship game earlier this month.

But needy people in some other countries around the world are expected to soon be sporting T-shirts, sweat shirts and hats proclaiming that they did.

The NFL orders about 200 T-shirts and hats for each team in conference championship and Super Bowl games to be produced in advance.

Susan McBride Rothman, NFL vice president of consumer products, said it has donated the losing teams' items to World Vision since 1994, WISC-TV reported.

The Christian relief and development agency also regularly gets donations of such items from two of the nation's largest team-wear retailers, Dick's Sporting Goods and the Sports Authority.

World Vision spokesman Anne Duffy said people in places such as Nicaragua are very poor and often have never had a new piece of clothing in their lives. She says getting such apparel brings them a tremendous sense of pride and joy.

World Vision's focus for the team-wear distributions this year is on Nicaragua, Romania and other countries where there is an especially strong need.

Jeff Fields, the senior director of corporate relations, said cool-weather clothing such as sweat shirts could go to Mongolia, Romania and mountainous parts of Central America.