From caps to Mardi Gras beads, NFL Shop has the whole shebang

It's an impressive display: rock-ribbed, muscle-bound mannequins in NFL game jerseys, looking like they couldn't pass Roger Goodell's urine test. There is one for each team -- Drew Brees representing the New Orleans Saints, Justin Tuck standing tall for the New York Giants, Champ Bailey -- apparently recovered from his divisional-round playoff stumble -- in his Denver Broncos garb, and so on.

Uh, wait, is that Darrelle Revis in a New York Jets jersey? Well, for the time being, anyway. But if he is traded, who would be Plan B for Gang Green?

Tim Tebow? He probably has watched his last down in a Jets jersey. Mark Sanchez? Is there a market for the jersey of a quarterback whose completion percentage looks like Dwight Howard's free throw success rate?

Nevertheless, the plastic players are here to greet fans as they come to the NFL Shop to load up on Super Bowl XLVII souvenirs at the New Orleans Convention Center.

If you want one of those jerseys, they're $150, with a player's name or your name on the back. Kent Haffner, director of embroidery operations, will show fans how to use the touch screen to customize the shirts. Pick a team. Pick a size. Type your name and see how it looks.

There are 30,000 square feet of everything NFL: mugs ($14.99), shot glasses ($9.99), T-shirts ($28 and up), hats ($30) and more. And that's not a life-size Russell Wilson action figure, that's a Seattle Seahawks garden gnome ($24.99).

A hat with the logos of the Super Bowl teams costs $34 -- or $44 with a silver Lombardi Trophy stitched on the side. An official NFL game ball is $179.99. A game program is $20. Mardi Gras beads with your favorite team's logo are $28 -- not that fans of the 30 other teams have any reason to party.

If you want your toddler to grow up to be like Joe Flacco, buy the $95 kiddie jersey with Flacco's name on the back. But you'll probably need the kid to get a free ride to Delaware, like Flacco, because the college fund might be sparse.

And if you long for yesteryear, there's an Archie Manning throwback Saints jersey for $275, which is more than Morten Andersen's ($250) or Rickey Jackson's ($200). You want to be Archie, but you've had a few too many po' boys? No sweat -- the jersey comes in XXXL.

"We have everything an NFL fan could want," Haffner said Sunday as he surveyed the racks and shelves and waited for the crowds to arrive.

We wondered what a Revis was worth.

"One hundred fifty dollars," Haffner said.

No, we meant in draft picks.

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