Manning Beats the Forces of Evil. I was super-glad to see the Colts beat the Patriots. Peyton Manning finally got the "can't win the big one" monkey off his back while New England's evil "we don't give a crap about the players" management got what was coming to them.
Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy Beat the Stereotypes. The NFL is definitely not "High School Musical." Nasty racial stereotyping has dogged the heels of black athletes and coaches every step of the process of integration. First, blacks weren't supposed to be smart enough to play guard, then center, and finally quarterback with the stereotypes only retreating after great black players like Gene Upshaw and Warren Moon thoroughly disproved them. When black guys finally got the opportunity to work as head coaches, the idea that black coaches were great "disciplinarians" (as opposed to football geniuses) quickly took hold. What was good about Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith winning is that they're both known as smart guys who proved themselves today against two of the reigning "geniuses" of the coaching world--Bill Belichick of New England and Sean Payton of the Saints. Perhaps the NFL will look a little more like "High School Musical" when Dungy and Smith are acknowledge are also acknowledged as geniuses.
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