I will let all the sportswriters and other bloggers provide the real analysis, but I was deeply saddened, a bit shockingly so, that Indianapolis Colts' head coach Tony Dungy is calling it quits. I am not a true Colts' fan, but have considered myself to be halfway on the bandwagon since going to school in Anderson (IN) and watching all those games with Coach Dungy, Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Edgerrin James, Joseph Addai, Adam Vinatieri, Dwight Freeney, Bob Sanders, Dallas Clark, and others play. Even as one who followed the Jags more closely this year than the Colts, it's been a great run for the Colts, and I'm sad to see it go, at least with Dungy at the helm.
He is a man I deeply respect, and it seems that about everyone does. Everyone but his family loses without him in the National Football League. And perhaps that is exactly why it is the right choice for him right now, because it has always been the opposite before. I get the sense that he is not the type of coach who will come back, but maybe I am wrong. I don't think he needs football in an identity sense the way other coaches and players who prematurely retire do. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong. I wish him the best.
Keywords: Indianapolis Colts, Tony Dungy
