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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Come on, some of you are being a wee bit sensitive here. Lovie Smith got his break in the NFL from Tony Dungie, and there also hasn't been a black head coach make the Super Bowl - ever.
If there's anything that you could possibly read between the lines here - it's that maybe he doesn't want to face Belichick in the big game? Can you blame him? Who would? Take is as respect, if you take it as anything at all.
BTW I'm a Bears fan. Good luck in the game Sunday!
Lemme get this straight:
Lovie Smith has publicly said that he wants the Colts to win so he can be in the first Super Bowl with two BLACK head coaches. In other words, he doesn't want the Pats to win because BB is WHITE. And that's OK with everybody? I think he's a racist POS and he needs to STFU because it's not going to happen. Not that it matters to me either way, but the two best teams left right now are NO and NE.
I could coach the personnel on that Bears defense to #1 in the league. A Colts-Bears super bowl would be a terrible game, because those are the two worst coaches in the playoffs (besides Herm, who is on his own level).
Your perspective as a Bears fan is understandable. But no matter how you cut it, and no matter how subtle/"justified" it might seem, this is reverse racism on Smith's behalf. It seems to me that the whole point of the NFL pushing integration into the head coaching ranks was to make the league COLORBLIND, not segregate the black coaches into their own little self-promoting fraternity. It would be more appropriate of coaches like Dungy and Smith and Herm not to emphasize the racial aspect of their accomplishments and leave that for the rest of the world to acknowledge.
Gee, I wonder what would happen if BB called Sean Payton and said I am pulling for you, so us two "white guys" can meet in the Super Bowl. Amazing the double standard in this country today.
EZ76
I want a Pats-Bears Super Bowl for two reasons (not counting the obvious reasons why I want the Pats in there):No , WHEN WE WIN, I want to play the Bears , so we can make a fraud of Lovie... The Saints are a nice story, but its over...
It's not reverse racism. It's the natural progression that the NFL goes through as it recovers from years of racism, first at the player level and then at the coach level. Racism (or reverse racism) would be to do what the NFL did in the past -- blatantly or institutionally discriminate against blacks. To call this reverse racism would be like calling rooting for the Americans in the Olympics xenophobia. Dungy, Smith, and Edwards all probably recognize they are symbols of hope to the many blacks who are still suffering from the damage done by racism in years past. (And let's not forget that it's only a year ago that Limbaugh got fired from MNF for making racist comments, comments that were defended by many fans and even some pundits.)
Gee, I wonder what would happen if BB called Sean Payton and said I am pulling for you, so us two "white guys" can meet in the Super Bowl. Amazing the double standard in this country today. I just hope we maul them bastards come Sunday, so the media can stop with this crap angle, the manning ball washing, and ring deserving. It is time for BB and the Pats to take on this "us against the world mentality" and drive it all the way home. Hopefully, this will give him more "bulletin board" material. Don't worry, believe me, I am sure the Saints will expose the Bears and their coach for the frauds that they are.
EZ76
You're hilarious. Pathetic and ignorant, but hilarious nonetheless.
Tunescribe, you sort of proved my point with your defense of Limbaugh. It's not bigotry when he says it. LOL. It's interesting that it's you who started this discussion, too, a Limbaugh apologist who is quick to jump on Lovey Smith's back. And are you just assuming that because Dungy and Edwards are black, that they made similar comments? Please post your source.
Also, I don't think Dungy, Smith, and Edwards are playing up this matter -- it's race obsessed people who are. Lovey simply acknowledged a fact that's easily apparent and expressed hope that it happened. It's no different than Irish pride, Jewish pride, Asian pride in the new Red Sox player, etc. And it is of historical significance. I suppose you would have been against Jackie Robinson getting attention for being the first black major league baseball player.
I certainly want the Pats to win, but you can't deny there are other stories, such as two black coaches could be in the superbowl, the superbowl could be a matchup of Peyton v. Peyton, etc. All of these things are interesting, and there's no need for the conservative PC police to tell us it's wrong to notice them.