Posted on 07/24/2014 2:41:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Tony Dungy is being proven right, and his critics in the media are helping him do it.
Dungy, a well-respected coach and revered figure in the NFL community, currently finds himself at the bottom of a media dogpile because he said he would not draft St. Louis Rams rookie linebacker Michael Sam, who became the first openly gay NFL player earlier this year.
“I wouldn’t have taken him,” Dungy told the Tampa Tribune in an article published this week. (Reporter Ira Kaufman later revealed that the quotation is from a separate interview he conducted with Dungy in February.) “Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it.”
“It’s not going to be totally smooth . . . things will happen.”
But if Dungy was hoping to avoid starting a narcissistic media kerfuffle, he ended up doing exactly that — starting one.
Now, the Super Bowl–winning coach of the Indianapolis Colts has become the goat of sports media. One after another, commentators have lined up to label Dungy “anti-gay” and “homophobic.” Keith Olbermann gave Dungy his “Worst Person in the Sports World” recognition, while Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports wrote that the remarks were “some kind of Jim Crow–era awful.” One doesn’t have to go more than a few paragraphs before a columnist points to Dungy’s Christian faith as the reason; the real gumshoes cite the Indiana Family Institute’s Friend of Family Award he won in 2007 when the state passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
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What’s really strange is that Muslim trumps all of those you mentioned.
True, I completely forgot to include that.
Unfortunately, the future is now. Over 80% of high school athletes say they would have no problem committing to a school where one of there future teammates would be gay.
Thank you Tony. Let INTELLIGENT minds prevail.
What a survey like this DOESN'T say is: Whether you're gay, black, green, or gray, it's ONLY about how WELL YOU PLAY the GAME.
Whatever a player's sexual proclivity or race, it is of NO CONSEQUENCE. As a PLAYER he must perform up to expectations measured by the team and the coaches.
Tony Dungy made a statement based on his COACHING experience. I both respect and agree with his opinion on this particular situation.
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