Two African-American coaches in the Super Bowl

[Elwood P Dowd]

Unreal.

[eleny]

1. This is very cool first!

[CatWoman]

2. The "Klan Signal" just went up

over at Free Republic :)

[Catherine Vincent]

3. LOL!

:hi:

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. The assholes....

Go Bears!

[politicasista]

4. This is awesome!

Though I am not a Peyton Manning fan, I am more happy for Tony Dungy. :)

[muntrv]

16. I'm a Tony Dungy fan too. Another post mentioned that Peyton is

a Bush pioneer.

[politicasista]

Not suprised. He donated to Bob Corker's senate campaign

His family is reminiscent of the Bushes aka BFEE. :puke:

[politicasista]

20. delete n/t

dupe post

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Isn't it? I'm so happy for them both.

Moreso for Lovie though.:evilgrin:

[Pithy Cherub]

15. Changed the avatar and everything...

:party: I'm torn, torn, torn...

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. I HAD to! Just until the Super Bowl is over.

:)

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. It IS very cool....

Lovie Smith is such a great guy. He is well loved in Chicago and I hope that his reputation ends up even bigger than Mike Ditka's. A Lovie Smith restaurant in the "Viagra Triangle" :eyes: would be a nice addition.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

13. ITA, Lovie Smith seems to be such a great guy.

Ditka's an asshole who forgot where he came from.

BTW, GAT, what's the "Viagra Triangle"??? Dumb South Sider here...

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. Near North Side steakhouses.....

Expense account restaurants that serve big steaks and all the high-rollers patronize.

[MrSlayer]

8. That's great thing. Would've been unthinkable even 25 years ago.

Congratulations to them.

[underpants]

45. This is the result of the NFLPA pushing and pushing for black coaches

We shouldn't downplay the role that the Players Association had in this.

Good for them.

[enigmatic]

9. I'm glad to see Tony Dungy get over the hump

His rep for years was never winning the big one; I'm glad he's headed for The Super Bowl..

[Burma Jones]

10. This is good, now, I'm waiting for the first African-American Owner......

GO BEARS.......

[rocktivity]

11. This is the Super Bowl lineup I was hoping for!

I'm glad Peyton Manning has finally shaken off his "can't win the big one" stigma, especially since it wasn't deserved. :bounce:

Unfortunately, now comes the Super Bowl Hype weeks... :(


:headbang:
rocknation

[Captain Hilts]

12. I'm happy for Dungy and his important colors are blue and white. nt

[BlooInBloo]

14. I look forward to the day when they're just coaches (or quarterbacks).

[Catherine Vincent]

18. I agree. n/t

[sofa king]

32. I think that's today.

They may be black, but much more importantly the record proves that they are the best coaches in their respective conferences.

If there was some sort of barrier before, it's broken now.

[MannyGoldstein]

19. What Will OxyRush Have To Say?

That their teams really suck?

[Elwood P Dowd]

22. Neither of those coaches could play QB in the NFL

Just not the right color.

:sarcasm:

[trumad]

35. Really

Vick...Culpepper... Donovan.....Young.... ....


Color don't matter if you're a player in todays NFL.

[Elwood P Dowd]

21. Another twist: Two SEC QBs from rival schools

Manning from Tennessee and Grossman from Florida. Those two schools don't like each other.

[qanda]

23. I'm so proud of both of them

Congratulations to the Bears and the Colts.

[sanskritwarrior]

24. Racism is alive

and well in America.......

:sarcasm:

[qanda]

25. I won't even ask you what your point is

Because I somehow doubt you have one.

[sanskritwarrior]

29. Was it

the dripping sarcasm that gave it away? :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. Pop quiz! The 2008 presidential election is between John McCain and John Edwards.

What John do you vote for?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

28. Damn, the search function isn't working.

But it will, eventually. Aha... advanced search is a-OK.

[ellacott]

26. I'm so happy for them

I want to see Dungy win because he has a greater body of work than Lovie.

Tony Dungy got a raw deal in Tampa Bay- he built the team that went to the Superbowl down there. My heart still goes out to him over his son's death last year.

[ellisonz]

30. The media handling is sickening.

The AFC Champsionship award was so botched, they had a white reporter give the trophy to Tony Dungy and the second question out of his mouth was how does it feel to be one of the true. Has anyone else read Ralph Ellison's invisible man? They then went to the tunnels with the better black reporter after the commercial break.

:puke:

[Kickin_Donkey]

31. Cool ...

that means we're SURE to get the first African American head coach to win a Super Bowl. There's no way to lose.

[Cobalt Violet]

34. Yet football still sucks.

Imagine that.

[trumad]

36. Oh please tell your sport of choice?

[Cobalt Violet]

37. None.

[trumad]

41. Figures.

[Cobalt Violet]

42. So?

[trumad]

46. So what the fuck are you doing in a sports thread?

You don't like sports...You don't play sports... So what the fuck are you shitting in this thread for?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

47. now, Trumad, you know damn good and well

that there are some people who just will not ever see anything positive in any sort of sport or competition. Shitting in this thread is THEIR way of 'competing' with the idea that sometimes fun is ok...

sP

oh wait...I just meant to say, Hell yeah...right-on!

[Cobalt Violet]

48. Calm down. It's not worth a stroke. This isn't in the Sports Forum...

Where it should be if people who don't like sports aren't welcome to comment. It's up for General Discussion. I just thought I would add my 2 cents and really didn't think anyone would take it to heart.

[ProfessorGAC]

51. Pretty Weak, CV

The issue here is the socially relevant aspect of two black coaches leading their teams in the country's biggest sporting event.

It's not about football, therefore, does not belong in the sports forum. And, you're 2 cents had absolutely no bearing on the actual reason the thread was started.

And, you didn't think anyone would take it to heart? Sheesh!
The Professor

[Cobalt Violet]

52. End of story.

I didn't realize that who coachs what team had any social relevance at all. Just because the media wants us to believe that sport are equally important as everything else on the news by giving it as much coverage as it does doesn't make it so.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. OK

But, i do believe that there is social relevance to the racial divide being marginally reduced but at a high profile event.
The Professor

[Cobalt Violet]

55. I hope you are right about that.

But I was thinking:
Not one hungry person will eat because of this.
Not one uninsured person will get healthcare because of this.
Not one homeless person will find shelter because of this.
Not one person will escape poverty because of this.
Not one troop will be sent home because of this.
Not one disease will be cured because of this.
Global warming will not end because of this.
The slaughter in Iraq will not stop because of this.
Inequality will not end because of this.
Our lost civil liberties will not be restored because of this.
Our wages will not rise because of this.

So it didn't seem that socially relevant to me. Maybe you are right, I hope your right.

[ProfessorGAC]

56. It Might Make Just One. . .

. . . racially unconscious fencerider to realize that race doesn't actually matter between good people. If that's all that happens, that's ok, i think.
The Professor

[Cobalt Violet]

57. I hope that doesn't just happen on which ever side wins.

That's part of the reason I'm not too fond of sports to begin with (the whole winners and losers thing).

[ProfessorGAC]

Understood

I'm just not one who thinks it's really that bad for society to have an organized form of decompression. Having nothing of this sort (or movies or tv) would build an awfully big bomb.
The Professor

[ProfessorGAC]

58. Dupe

.

[malaise]

38. Amazing indeed

in 2007? It's sure taken ages to come a long way.

[City Lights]

39. Lovie rawks!

:loveya:, Lovie!

Go Bears!

[Justice]

40. They are there because of their coaching skill

I just want people to remember that they are good coaches and that is why they are in the Super Bowl.

[Dorian Gray]

43. And they both are great coaches

It'll be a fun superbowl game. :)

[a kennedy]

44. Love it too......thought it was funny, when media was talking to

Lovie, he indicated "Black" coach, and Tony said "African American" coach, are they interchangeable again?? I don't even know if it makes a difference, but I remember when we couldn't say Black. Or am I still in the conditioned mode?? :shrug: Go Bears, even though I'm a huge Packer fan. :evilgrin:

[Bill McBlueState]

49. Tony Dungy

Dungy may be a religious wacko, but I really do appreciate the way he brought a lot of black assistants into the game while he was head coach at Tampa Bay. And now, many of them are successful head coaches in their own right.

[Bill McBlueState]

50. give some thanks to the Rooneys!

The Rooney Rule, as hamfisted as it seems, may be making a difference. (The Rooney Rule, named for Steelers chairman Dan Rooney who proposed it, requires any team with a head-coaching vacancy to interview at least one minority candidate.)

[Ganja Ninja]

53. Both are former Tampa Bay Buc coaches

as is Mike Tomlin the new coach of the Steelers and Rod Marinelli of the Lions.
Now look at where we're at. Jon Gruden sucks and I hope the Cowboys will try to steal him from us.