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Did God just pick the Falcons by 7?

Houston, Texas: Atlanta Falcons fan rallies outside the NRG Stadium on Sunday. Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com

Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

Houston, Texas: Atlanta Falcons fan rallies outside the NRG Stadium on Sunday. Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com
By Jim Galloway
Feb 5, 2017

So Donald Trump has picked the Patriots by 8. That's true. Click here for details. But the Falcons may have gone one better.  I'm not saying that God has chosen a side in the Super Bowl. I'm just saying it sounds like he has:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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