Posted on 02/11/2007 7:48:24 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Gotta say, generally I have no problem with either coach's faith or public proclamation thereof, BUT right at the last I could have used just a bit less Christian charity. Refusing to go for a chip shot field goal cost me a benjamin on a 48 point over. Of course I also put down on Friday, had no idea we were going to see the first Superbowl in a monsoon.
Newspapers, who reads them anyways?This boy's job is endangered not by outsourcing, but by a marketplace that no longer wants to pay for liberal carping that they can get for free on any number of leftist blogs.
"I always have wondered how religion and tolerance bed down."
In the Muslim religion, they don't.
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Yes, Rick. Yours.
You have to wonder; Christians are far more tolerant than Telander and whatever he considers his affiliation.
Sports for decades from grade school levels- the pros has had GOD based programs. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is one such group. Good players like Reggie White gave kids someone to look up to rather than some overpaid hoodlum making the covers of the news on arrest rather than his athletic achievements.
My dad played high school football in the early 1940's. He said the coach always had prayer at practices etc and before games. I remember as a kid seeing the high school I attended team saying a short prayer before a game. The writer has a huge disconnect on the history of sports in relation to religious beliefs.
BTW it wasn't just the coach who gave acknowledgment to GOD. Manning as well did the same. What is so wrong about two Christian Coaches leading the top two teams of the nation and giving us a great game? If they attribute their skills and successes to GOD that is their right.
A journalist should never start a sentence with "Would someone like..."
It basically says "I have no facts but I will level a charge against you anyway"
Everybody thinks Sun-Times Columnist Rick Telander is a tendentious fool. Including me.
Check this out:
"His religious expression even trumped his honor at being the history-setting first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl"
This is the money quote. The "reporter" is mad because Dungy was so "unappreciative" of being a so-called victim, and rightly emphasized his faith, rather than his race.
It figures. They're going to call him an Uncle Tom pretty soon because he doesn't play the race victim card. Sheesh!
For some odd reason the majority of sports writers seem to be radical leftists. I don't get the connection, but it's definitely there.
"Probably has something to do with the 10 Commandments, a number of which they do not believe in."
It isn't that they don't believe in them, it is that they lack the moral courage to live up to them.
If you will notice, very few of them have much praise for any coach or player. I pretty much ignore what any of them has to say.
Good point...that probably has a lot to do with it.
Because they work for newspapers. It's the same reason most police chiefs believe in the confiscation of firearms when most rank and file don't. If they didn't believe that way, they'd get fired and the editors would hire somebody else.
Telander is going to blow a blood vessel when he finds out that Dungy's home town (and my adopted one) of Jackson, MI, is about to name a school after him.
The entire city was rooting for Indy and public support was overwhelming. For a short time it gave an economically depressed city a much needed emotional lift.
"Parkside" is a nice name, but I think "Tony Dungy Middle School" sounds pretty good too.
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