Now He'll Have Extra Time to Send Hate Mail to Clay Aiken

Doing the Lord's work, now. Like hating people for reasons beyond their control.

The Super Bowl-winning coach "embraced" the stance of an Indiana organization supporting an amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriages, and he added Tuesday night at a gathering of the Indiana Family Institute that he's "on the Lord's side."

"We're not trying to downgrade anyone else," said Dungy, coach of the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts. "But we're trying to promote the family — family values the Lord's way," Dungy said. "IFI is saying what the Lord says. You can take that and make your decision on which way you want to be." - USA Today, March 21, 2007

I just thought that people should keep this in mind as the world weeps for the passing of the great humanitarian Tony Dungy. As I've said before, I am sure he's a swell guy. And no one is saying that on balance he's a monster. But that shouldn't excuse his unembarrassed support of bigotry. I'd like to see someone write about that as he rides off into the sunset. Although, that's as likely as Peter King highlighting Brett Favre's selfishness and drug addiction as Favre makes his next agonizing decision about whether he should continue attempting to save the world playing football or retire and be a rich guy who threw too many interceptions and let his pride submarine his teams for the final years of his career.

The lionizing of NFL figures gets tedious.