Coach Dad

Father's Day | Family comes first for Tony Dungy, and his Super Bowl champion Colts team has not suffered for it | Russ Pulliam

INDIANAPOLIS— He learned how to be a father from his own dad.

Then Tony Dungy learned about the fatherless from NFL football players and young men behind bars in Florida prisons.

The Indianapolis Colts football coach was known for his spiritual winning ways long before he took the Colts to their Super Bowl victory earlier this year. While rebuilding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he received a well-earned reputation as an evangelical Christian who demonstrated his faith on and off the football field.

His prison ministry and volunteer work with young people even seemed to be a liability with some commentators. Critics wondered if he had too many fruits of the spirit to win a Super Bowl, almost penalizing him for keeping his temper in check and taking personal interest in his players. Did he have that tough, mean streak presumed necessary to motivate NFL players all the way to the Super Bowl?

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