{"id":141002,"date":"2025-06-19T01:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/141002\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T01:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:05:11","slug":"why-uncrustables-have-become-the-nfls-unofficial-locker-room-fuel-with-80000-eaten-every-year-nfl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/141002\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Uncrustables have become the NFL’s unofficial locker room fuel, with 80,000 eaten every year | NFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhyNFL players can\u2019t stop eating Uncrustables\u2014over 80,000 consumed every year (X) NFL<\/a> stars might be among the world\u2019s most finely tuned athletes, but when it comes to snacking, many stick to something straight from the schoolyard lunchbox: Uncrustables. These sealed, crust-free peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have become a surprising staple across the league \u2014 even more popular than the longtime halftime favorite, orange slices.<\/p>\n

This childhood snack is dominating NFL locker rooms\u2014players reportedly eat 80,000 Uncrustables a year<\/p>\n

What started as a quirky discovery by The Athletic while investigating the league\u2019s halftime habits has since evolved into a full-blown phenomenon. In an era of protein shakes and performance bars, Uncrustables are thriving. After surveying 24 of the NFL\u2019s 32 teams at the end of the 2023 season, The Athletic learned that players consume \u201cat least 80,000 Uncrustables a year,\u201d factoring in games, practices, and training camps. That staggering number could stretch over 18 yards of a football field if laid end to end.The team with the most ravenous appetite? The Denver Broncos, who reportedly crush an astonishing 7,000 Uncrustables each week. The Seattle Seahawks followed with 3,200, while the Jacksonville Jaguars and Miami Dolphins were not far behind. On the flip side, the Cincinnati Bengals and New Orleans Saints tied for last place \u2014 if you can call it that \u2014 with 500 sandwiches per week.Interestingly, Uncrustables have a direct tie to football. The product was co-created by former North Dakota State University wide receiver Len Kretchman and his wife Emily. In the ’90s, Emily suggested making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the crust that could be mass-produced. From a simple idea in their kitchen using a drinking glass to cut and seal the bread, the product eventually evolved. In 1999, Smucker\u2019s purchased their company and turned Uncrustables into a national hit.NFL players quickly embraced the snack. Jeff Saturday, former Indianapolis Colts center, remembered the sandwiches being a hit during Super Bowl week in 2007: \u201cWe were all scoopin\u2019 and scorin\u2019. We were grabbing five, six at a time.\u201d Despite getting smashed under playbooks in gym bags, Saturday said, \u201cDidn\u2019t matter. You could throw your playbook on top of \u2019em, didn\u2019t make any difference. Squished, unsquished, you\u2019re gonna crush it.\u201dThe tradition lives on. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy reportedly ate one at his locker before the Super Bowl. Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 Travis Kelce<\/a> admitted on his New Heights podcast, \u201cI eat more of those sandwiches than anything else in the world.\u201d George Kittle of the 49ers munches on two before away games and up to four afterward.As Saturday summed it up: \u201cWe\u2019re all creatures of habit, dude. Almost freakishly. If you\u2019re a two-Uncrustables-a-day kind of guy, that\u2019s just what you do.\u201dWhether it’s nostalgia, convenience, or just plain taste, one thing\u2019s clear \u2014 in the NFL, Uncrustables aren\u2019t just surviving, they\u2019re thriving.Also Read: Gisele Bundchen gives Tom Brady a cold, silent Father\u2019s Day while she chooses peace and passion with Joaquim Valente<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL players can\u2019t stop eating Uncrustables\u2014over 80,000 consumed every year (X) NFL stars might be among the world\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,32835,32836,32837,1369,500,32838,32839],"class_list":{"0":"post-141002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-locker-room-food","11":"tag-nfl-players-snacks","12":"tag-nfl-snacks","13":"tag-tom-brady","14":"tag-travis-kelce","15":"tag-uncrustables","16":"tag-uncrustables-consumption-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114707348129115581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}