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  • 2007-02-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Colts Tony Dungy - A Little Insight (en)
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  • In his first five years as head coach of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, Tony Dungy has accomplished the remarkable feat of directing his team to both five straight seasons of 10 or more wins and five straight playoff appearances. Dungy and the Colts capped this impressive string with a 12-4 season in 2006 and a 29-17 championship victory against the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI on 4 February 2007. Tony Dungy is immensely popular around the NFL, known for his soft-spoken style, ever-steady leadership and commitment to balancing family life with football. He is also known for being a deeply spiritual man and a dedicated father, and he was of course both shocked at saddened by the death of his son James, who committed suicide at the age of 18 in December 2005. The account excerpted below (widely-circulated via e-mail in the wake of the Colts' 2007 Super Bowl victory) was originally published on the Colts.com web site and dates from the year prior to the Colts' 2007 Super Bowl Championship. Example: [Collected via e-mail, February 2007] It's an article from February 2006 about a talk Tony Dungy gave before a breakfast held in Detroit on the eve of Super Bowl XL by Athletes in Action (AIA), a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ founded to build on society's great love of sports and utilize the platform given to the athletes to reach the world for Jesus Christ. During that AIA appearance, Dungy talked publicly for the first time about James' suicide, speaking of his late son eloquently and steadily, speaking of lessons learned and of the positives taken from experience. (en)
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