Tony Dungy: (Random Superlative)!

So now that the media fawning over Tony Dungy (aka the black Tim Tebow) is mostly finished, I thought I would take a shot at commenting on the commenting. Tony Dungy was a pretty good coach. He took a team with a hall of fame quarterback in the Colts, and a team with at least two hall of fame defensive players on it in the Bucs, and won a whole mess of regular season games. He also won a Super Bowl, which is not something alot of coaches can say, and he went to the playoffs like 10 years in a row, which I guess is a record. Dungy also seems to be a nice enough guy, respectful, mild mannered, all that. Finally, he was the first black coach to win a Super Bowl. He is a borderline hall of famer, but probably not a shoo-in like everyone makes him out to be. And that is one of the places that all of this fawning got a little out of control, and it always happens. Person A retires, media ignores every negative thing that every happened, therefore person A is the greatest person, and greatest player/coach ever.

As I said, Dungy has a legitimate claim to the HOF. But to give him a free pass is to ignore alot of his team's postseason failings.

The other thing I have a problem with is the talk about how Dungy is the greatest person on the face of the earth. Dungy is a man of god (allegedly), does charity work, says the right things, etc. But the general public doesn't know Tony Dungy, just as we didn't know Michael Vick, or O.J. Simpson (he didn't do anything), or Marvin Harrison (allegedly). So I don't know how it is automatically assumed that Dungy has no flaws because he goes to church and does some charity. You may remember, I believe during his Super Bowl run, that Tony was speaking on behalf of an anti-gay group. Yet you never hear this brought up in connection with how great of a person he is, yet in 2009, I'm pretty sure that hating gay people (Jesus says its wrong!) doesn't fall under the definition of "great person". I'm just saying that we don't know anything about Tony Dungy. He may very well be a great person. But he might be electrocuting dogs in h is spare time too. So lets relax on the greatest coach/greatest person of all time stuff.