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- <text id=89TT3345>
- <title>
- Dec. 18, 1989: Getting The Football Spirit
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 77
- Getting the Football Spirit
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- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> "I don't have a system," explains Sister Marie Louise, 89,
- a Washington nun who has won national attention by her
- uncannily accurate picks of the winners of National Football
- League games. "I read the newspapers. If I get a hunch, I stick
- with it. Of course, I do pray and ask the Holy Spirit for help."
- That seems to work divinely. On a local TV program that asks
- guests for N.F.L. predictions, the Visitation nun, who once
- played basketball and baseball, has so far bested the secular
- guessers. Along with the mother superior, a fellow football fan,
- the sister follows the sport on the convent TV. Has she made a
- pick for the Super Bowl? Only heaven knows.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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