Local printing shop ‘crazy busy’ since Super Bowl

The New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl win has brought an avalanche of business to the Silk Screen Shop near South Choctaw Drive. The shop has been printing Saints Championship T-shirts around the clock. “It’s been crazy busy,” says Rich Peabody, who runs the family business. “We keep getting reorders and reorders.” While Peabody spoke, a phone was ringing in the background. “It hasn’t stopped,” he says. Since the Saints won the NFC Championship game two weeks ago, the Silk Screen Shop has printed around 58,000 T-shirts. But the team’s Super Bowl win has intensified business further, as demonstrated by thousands of Saints fans camped out in front of sporting goods stores to buy merchandise. (For a YouTube video of the crowds waiting for the Academy Sports store in Lafayette to open after the Super Bowl on Sunday night, click here.) Peabody says he doesn’t know when the flurry of activity will stop. “It’s helped the whole economy and given a good boost to everybody,” he says. “We’re happy to be involved with it.”—Timothy Boone