I tell you what, I am proud to be representing African-American coaches and to be the first African-American to win this – that means an awful lot to our country, but again, more than anything and I said it before, Lovie Smith and I are not only the first two African Americans but Christian coaches showing that you can win doing it the Lord’s way and we are more proud of that.In a sport like football where excess seems to dominate the headlines and the suspicion of drug use is high and arrests are common (see, for instance, the Cincinnati Bengals who have had 9 players arrested in just the past years), perhaps it is amazing that two Christian men who very much want to win games but are more committed to building up the character of the men on their teams made it such heights.
I don't know if God answers prayers about football games or parking spots or slot machines or the right clothes to wear in the morning. I do know that God loves to be praised and Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith (the Chicago Bears coach) do that with their lives and their work.
An important note here - when Coach Dungy says, "win doing it the Lord's way" it is easy to think that means that he has won it by being "nice." That would be a mistake. The Lord's way is many things - it is not nice. By that I mean the Lord's way is not some insipid, Wonder-bread-fluffy, kiss-a-puppy kind of nice. It is a tough journey, a brutal journey and an exhausting race.
No one knows that more than Tony Dungy who lost his son to a suicide fourteen-months ago and has said repeatedly, "God is in every thing, even the ugly things." And there isn't an Indianapolis Colt (or Chicago Bear) who has been through one of their coaches training camps, endured their discipline, or been taught to play football by them who would call any of that nice. They would, and they do, call it "the right way" to play and to live and it doesn't get more socially significant than that.
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Pacific123, A great deal of what passes as Hebrew/Biblical prophecy has to do with denouncing other people's vices and faults. Notice any consistency here? Now look at Leftist/Progressive/Liberal-Christianity, which only denouces people for doing the right thing.
Now look at Leftist/Progressive/Liberal-Christianity, which only denouces people for doing the right thing. Calling into question the professed self-righteous is at the heart of Jesus stood for. Violence, demonization, and killing in the name of God is what the Pharisees (as it is portrayed in the Christian New Testament) stood for.
I like how everyone (including me and you on this blog) are enjoying this incredible moment together. How can one be nothing but totally open and active about change when the main actors in this event are examples of someone like Jesus? Makes ya wonder what all the yocal locals were talkin-bout when they heard all the "Messiah" talk way back when. Now is the time to be bolder than ever instead of walking away with a grin on your face.
I am also glad that a Christian coach was the winner of the super bowl but I don't like the way that you used the Bengals as an example of a unchristian like team Marvin Lewis is also a very god fairing man, and as for the 9 Bengals, lets get it straight only about 3 of them have been actually charged. 2 in fact have law suits on the authorities for wrongly arrest. So lets get it straight before we throw stones (which by the way is unchristian.)
He without sin cast the first stone. The Bengals have a lot of Christian people on their team so please pray for the ones who have messed up and not bash them. Christians sometimes are very hypocritical when we are looking at someone elese life. I am glad to see that we are all so god like that we can talk about and criticize but not pray and help.
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