My understanding is that in response to media attention to Dungy/Smith being 2 black head coaches being in the super bowl, Dungy said they should really be talking about 2 Christian coaches being in the super bowl.
This flies in the face of reason, unless he believes this is the first super bowl in which both head coaches were Christian.
In other words, it is on a parallel with 2 black head coaches playing, if indeed Christian coaches are a rarity. I believe from hearing that comment that Dungy is using a very narrow definition of "Christian" that does not include drinking Christians, cursing Christians, etc.
If this is the case, it is mildly irritating to real non-Christians, by the implication that non-Christians are the majority of super bowl coaches, which is clearly not the case. But I would say it is way more of a slap in the face to, say, Cowher and Holmgren, both of whom are members of Christian denominations. Even in the case of a real religious minority coach -- say, Marv Levy -- it took multiple super bowls before his faith was mentioned in the national media. Why make such a point about Christianity, in the context of minority coaches, if you believe confessional group to be "business as usual" in this Super Bowl?
The other possibility is that Dungy is saying race is utterly insignificant, and by comparison, one should focus on dividing by religion, which is much more significant, so much so that "business as usual" in terms of dividing by confessional group (i.e., the usual Christian-Christian super bowl,) is more significant than making the historic "first" by the racial definition.
I think Dungy's saying he and Smith were "real" Christians, taking the familiar tack of using a very narrow definition of the confessional group "Christian," and thereby claiming it to be a minority faith.
But then, since he did not explain which he meant, he has left himself with a lovely halo of plausible deniability. Anyway, the natural most offended parties -- i.e., mainline Catholicism and Protestantism, particularly SB coaches of those faiths -- are not raring to call him out on it. Talk about looking like "sour grapes!"
I will note, however, that Dungy should make a run at Ricky Manning, Jr., who seems also to place confessional group at the heart of his worldview.
PFnV