{"id":73422,"date":"2018-03-26T12:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=73422"},"modified":"2018-03-26T06:51:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:51:58","slug":"sister-jean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2018\/03\/26\/sister-jean\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Jean!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/22914293\/sister-jean-gave-blessing-loyola-chicago-license-name-image\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Love it.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It took 98 years and seven months of living for Sister Jean Delores Schmidt to be asked this question: \u201cIs it OK if we license your name and image?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what Loyola-Chicago officials were doing earlier this week, as demand from licensees came in to the school\u2019s athletic department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t going to do anything until she gave her blessing,\u201d said Tom Sorboro, a senior associate athletic director at the school.<\/p>\n<p>When the conversation happened, the nun who serves as the chaplain of the basketball team said she trusted the school on approvals.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source srcset=\"http:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2018%2F0325%2Fr346464_640x360_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570, http:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2018%2F0325%2Fr346464_640x360_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2018%2F0325%2Fr346464_640x360_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570, http:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2018%2F0325%2Fr346464_640x360_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40 2x\"><\/source><source srcset=\"http:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2018%2F0325%2Fr346464_640x360_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, http:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2018%2F0325%2Fr346464_640x360_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2018%2F0325%2Fr346464_640x360_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, http:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2018%2F0325%2Fr346464_640x360_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40 2x\"><\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t ask for anything for herself,\u201d including compensation, Sorboro said.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Loyola has approved more than 25 Sister Jean T-shirts from a variety of companies including Fanatics, which made a Final Four shirt with her phrase, \u201cWorship. Work And Win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have Fanatics involved here and for us to be on the front page of the world\u2019s biggest sports website is unparalleled,\u201d Sorboro said.<\/p>\n<p>Fanatics spokesman Meier Raivich said the company has sold more Loyola product in the past 48 hours than in the rest of the season combined.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t include all the unlicensed product, including shirts that put Sister Jean on the Air Jordan logo. Another T-shirt takes the basketball brand And1\u2019s logo and makes it \u201cAndNun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the school gave away Sister Jean bobbleheads. They were reproduced in 2015 to be sold by the Loyola University Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>When those bobbleheads started selling for more than $300 on eBay, Phil Sklar knew there was an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Loyola approved a new bobblehead to Sklar\u2019s Bobblehead Hall of Fame. The Milwaukee-based company had made about 500 different bobbleheads over the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular bobblehead for the company was the Clemson National Champions bobblehead, which sold 3,000 units. In 48 hours, the Sister Jean bobblehead, which is being promised to arrive on doorsteps in June, surpassed 5,000 units, having been ordered from customers in all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLicensing rules prohibit the sale of bobbleheads of college players,\u201d Sklar said. \u201cBut Sister Jean\u2019s bobblehead really represents the entire team, school and the Loyola-Chicago community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love it. It took 98 years and seven months of living for Sister Jean Delores Schmidt to be asked this question: \u201cIs it OK if we license your name and image?\u201d That\u2019s exactly what Loyola-Chicago officials were doing earlier this week, as demand from licensees came in to the school\u2019s athletic department. \u201cWe weren\u2019t going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sister Jean!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Love it. 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