NFL Jersey Causing Subjects To Become Fans

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be stored in a standard secure locker within Site-██. Proposals for experimentation with SCP-XXXX must be submitted to and approved by a Level-3 researcher or above.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a size L T-shirt. SCP-XXXX currently (as of 2018/03/18) has the words: "Number 1 Browns Fan!" on its front, and the logo of the Cleveland Browns on its back. SCP-XXXX is currently seal brown.

At the beginning of each National Football League season, defined as the beginning of the National Football League Kickoff Game, the team name, logo, and color on SCP-XXXX will morph into the team name, logo, and color of the football team that will have the worst record of that National Football League season. If the same team will have the worst record two years in a row, as the Cleveland Browns did in the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 National Football League seasons, SCP-XXXX will not change.

When SCP-XXXX is worn, subjects will invariably claim to be fanatical supporter of the team displayed on SCP-XXXX, regardless of their prior feelings about the team or American football in general. Subjects will claim that the team is on the verge of a break-through, regardless of the team's performance. SCP-XXXX is not believed to increase subject's knowledge of football.

+ Open Experiment Log XXXX

Experiment XXXX-a

Subject: D-2967, a 32 year old English man who has never watched a game of American football.

Procedure: D-2967 is instructed to wear SCP-XXXX for one week during the National Football League season. After donning SCP-XXXX, D-2967 reported feeling a love for the team shown on SCP-XXXX. D-2967 further claimed to have been a fan of said team since early childhood.

D-2967 requested that he be allowed to watch his new team's scheduled football game for the week. Request was approved. Although D-2967 was informed that Vegas bookmakers put the odds of his team winning at 7-1, D-2967 expressed optimism in the team's chances, claiming that "Tony ███ would make the difference." Tony ███ is a professional basketball player, and has never played in the National Football League.

Although his team lost the game 37-3, D-2967 expressed further optimism. According to him, "next week will be the big breakthrough!" When informed that his team would not be playing next week due to a scheduled bye, D-2967 said that he meant "the week after that." D-2967 was then instructed to remove SCP-XXXX and was given Class-A amnestiatics. No mental effects were noted after D-2967; when asked, D-2967 did not remember ever watching an American football game.