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.

Best of Times/Worst of Times

I just wanted to follow up that fucking spectacular Tebow post, with a few thoughts about the greatest human being on the planet. This shit is getting to proportions that we haven't seen since a certain former Green Bay Packers quarterback. I hear the following comments by Thom Brenneman on the game Thursday night (not word for word exact). Referred to Tebow as "The unquestioned greatest leader in college football today." Said, "Tim Tebow is just a fantastic human being. If you get 20 minutes to spend with Tim Tebow, your life will never be the same."/Puked in my mouth.

Random NFL picks:

Last week: 3-1

Ten (-3), Car (-9 1/2), NYG (-4), Pit (-6)

I'm actually going to get to watch!

On one hand, P.J. Hill is a retard for going into the NFL. On the other hand I am ecstatic that he is leaving so he can stop poaching unwarranted carries from John Clay and Zach Brown (along with whatever terrific freshman running back is incoming). He has been getting carries based only on his performance as a freshman, which leads me to another shocking discovery. HE IS ONLY A JUNIOR?????? Holy fucking shit. Next year, we are naming the all-guys we feel like have been in college football for at least ten years team, the P.J. Hill All-Stars. I mean, he played alongside Ron Dayne in the Rose Bowl in 1999 didn't he? Anyway, he is slow, injury prone and fat, will be about a 7th round pick, and be bagging groceries next year.

Finally, the wife and I went to local Native American gambling establishment last night with my wife's sister and her husband. The wife and I bellied up to the $5 blackjack tables with $25 each. My sister in-law and husband were too intimidated and "didn't know how to play". (????) I haven't been to the casino in GB since I was 18 and they changed the age to 21 about a month later. I think what struck me the most was that it smelled of cigarettes worse than any place I've ever been in my life, and everyone there was old, poor or Asian. Strange experience. Anyway, I turned my $25 into $60 in about an hour. Cash money.