I too went very deep down the SB48 Chromaflex rabbit hole. So far, I've ended up with one legit player jersey Chromaflex for SB49, a handful of the fan version SB 48 Chromaflex patches, and a few of the Swedish Cookies version.
A batch of the legit player SB49 patches were also for sale the week before SB49. I paid $30 for it. I've contacted the company that makes the Chromaflex patch a few different times and they are VERY protective about not releasing the patches to the public. So I'm not sure how those SB49 ones got out. After the SB48 patch mess, I was so stoked to have one and was ready to apply it to a Lynch jersey, but then...
For the SB48 fan version Chromaflex patches, I found a guy who worked for an embroidery shop that was licensed by the NFL to apply the Chromaflex patches to commercially available Nike jerseys. He said their shop had those patches all over the place just sitting around. At one point well after SB48, someone went around and gathered them up and put them in a box where they sat longer. Then down the road, he was instructed to throw them out. He figured someone might really want them, so he took them home instead. He said it was a big risk. Not sure why he'd do that, because he sold them all really cheap to me. Although not the player version, they were real Chromaflex patches. Good enough for me to apply one to my white Lynch and Wilson limited jerseys - on the correct side, and give the others to friends and family to do the same.
It seems like such a simple no-brainer to reissue batches of the white SB48 jerseys with correct patch, but I doubt we ever see it.
There were a very small batch of white Nike Game jerseys issued with the fan Chromaflex patch on the correct side. I held one in my hand the week before that game but thought "na, I'll get a limited or authentic one with the patch, not knowing what a mess it would turn in to.
A good problem to have though - we had to win a SB for this to matter...
