Tony
Dungy recently handed the school a $100,000 check from the family and said Colts owner Jim Irsay will donate the same amount.
Diabetes affects millions of Americans every year and has become a growing problem, especially in the African-American community,"
Dungy says.
Technology has changed the way we communicate and connect with one another all around the world,"
Dungy said during the ceremony at Miami's James L.
Dungy finally found out he got the position when they returned to Pittsburgh.
Dungy had seven receptions for 75 yards and one touchdown as a Duck.
That he had to beat his good friend, Bears coach Lovie Smith, who is also black, might have felt partly bittersweet, but the moment was hardly lost on
Dungy.
It was important to me to get some guys into the pipeline," said
Dungy.
But
Dungy knows it is how his team responds to their first reversal, which came against the Dallas Cowboys, which will dictate how it turns out in Sunday's pivotal game.
Dungy says several dozen universities had coordinators in the 1970s.
Dungy is one of only two divisional play-off head coaches who have never taken a team to the Super Bowl (although the team he built in Tampa Bay won under Jon Gruden after he bolted for Indy) and the work he has done to improve the Colts' formerly soft defence is noteworthy.
That first game also was the first loss this year for the troubled Bengals, who went on to lose their last preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts, coached by Tony
Dungy.
So far the NFL has named only four black head coaches: Art Shell, formerly of the Oakland Raiders, Ray Rhodes of the Philadelphia Eagles, Tony
Dungy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Green.
