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FWST: TCU and Little Sisters of the Poor: They're winners in my book
By Bud Kennedy
bud@star-telegram.com
Besides the TCU Horned Frogs, there's another team that finished unbeaten this football season."People say they could beat us -- well, they've never played us!" said Sister Mary Vincent of Pittsburgh, mother superior there for the Little Sisters of the Poor care homes.
For 60 years, beginning in Ohio and Pennsylvania, football coaches and fans have joked about whether rivals could beat the weakest team in football, an imaginary team of nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor.
This year, the Sisters have racked up headlines.
First, Ohio State University's president wisecracked in November about how the Buckeyes are better than the Horned Frogs because Ohio State plays "very fine schools" -- "We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor." ...
By Bud Kennedy
bud@star-telegram.com
Besides the TCU Horned Frogs, there's another team that finished unbeaten this football season."People say they could beat us -- well, they've never played us!" said Sister Mary Vincent of Pittsburgh, mother superior there for the Little Sisters of the Poor care homes.
For 60 years, beginning in Ohio and Pennsylvania, football coaches and fans have joked about whether rivals could beat the weakest team in football, an imaginary team of nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor.
This year, the Sisters have racked up headlines.
First, Ohio State University's president wisecracked in November about how the Buckeyes are better than the Horned Frogs because Ohio State plays "very fine schools" -- "We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor." ...
