Colts' coach more proud of Christ than 'blackness'

World Net Daily ^ | 2/5/07 | Joe Kovacs

[Coldwater Creek]

Joe Gibbs!!!!

[thefactor]

nice article. personally, i am taking bets on how long it will be until a superbowl team has a white starting running back.

[presently no screen name]

Exactly! It's the media, those that detest Christian and the name Jesus, that want to keep the EMPHASIS on color. The coach isn't playing their PC game.

[AnnaZ]

I also found it interesting when one of the commentators made a remark about how they gave credit to "Their" God.

My 10-year-old caught that also and thought it was completely retarded.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Dungy=Class

then there's...

Dung heap=Crass

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Martin Luther King, Jr., looked to the day when people would be judged by their character rather than the color of their skin, and when we live in a color-blind society. Considering all the twittering by the white media over this Super Bowl, I guess we're not there yet.

I was at the Post Office the other day to get some stamps. The guy in front of me asked for commemoratives, and the clerk mentioned the Ella Fitzgerald commemorative. I heard that, and I immediately asked for it. Imagine my disgust when I saw that although it had her picture and name on it, it wasn't a commemorative for her, it was actually a commemorative for the fact that she wasn't white!

"Black Heritage!" Thanks for including me OUT! . . . and thanks for denigrating her by suggesting that she only mattered because she was black! She mattered because she was uniquely talented at what she did - and talented in a unique way.

[Dr.Deth]

It is not my fault that you don't have any comprehension skills.

Well, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black... even though the kettle is more proud of heating water the Lord's way.

[presently no screen name]

..obviously you guys need this in your corner more than I need to argue the intent.

We don't need it, we GOT it. Now back to my post #111 - you obviously needed to 'emphasis' for your own corner. You accuse WND to justify yourself; yet, what did you do?

[GOP Poet]

Here is a man that has his priorities straight. I was so moved when he spoke last night. What a great example.

[My2Cents]

and thanks for denigrating her by suggesting that she only mattered because she was black!

Precisely. This is the not-so-subtle perpetuation of racism.

[hellbender]

"I bet Nantz knew what he was doing."

I think you're right. He simply said there was a "social" significance to the occasion, which is different from going straight into the racial issue. In doing so, he served up a nice pitch which Dungy hit out of the park. Dungy did not express pride in personal blackness (Why should he? No one has control over his race.) but in being an African-American coach, i.e. earning a leadership position, and in maintaining his faith in a rather hostile environment. Dungy and Smith are gentlemen of the highest order and examples to people of all races.

[My2Cents]

His testimony to the importance of faith and character is a huge example to everyone, regardless of race.

[protest1]

...but Christian coaches showing that you can win doing it the Lord's way. And we're more proud of that.

The headline accurately represents the coaches views.

Your claim that the headline is disingenuous is therefor incorrect.

disingenuous // adj. having secret motives; dishonest; insincere. disingenuously adv. disingenuousness n.

[Hildy]

I don't have a corner...my only beeof was with the headline writer. That's all.

[Theo]

The headline is disingenous. He essentially said he was more proud that they won by running the team on Christian principles, not that he was more proud of Christ. There is a subtle difference.

[Hildy]

Thank you. That was my only point.

[Verginius Rufus]

I'm expecting the New York Times to explain Lovie Smith's defeat yesterday as the result of white racism but now Dungy has also given them evidence for their theory that the US is under threat from "Christianists."

[chimera]

Tony Dungy is a class act. Let's give the man his due. He won it all and did it his way, which he believes is living his Faith, walking his talk.

Likewise, Lovie Smith deserves respect and admiration for taking his team back to the glory of it's heyday, when the Bears were winning NFL championships and of course the Super Bowl in '86.

Both men are winners, IMO. Would that more of their Afro brethren emulate their example, instead of this hip-hop gangsta stuff they seem to be into. Hard work and love of your fellow man goes a lot further than drive-by shootings and dealing crack on the streets.

[fish hawk]

Another great man. Thank you.

[azhenfud]

MSM says comments on Christ not as welcome at SB as a Jackson/Timberlake wardrobe malfunction.