More Evidence Why Tony Dungy is One of My Heroes

BOWLING GREEN, Fla. — In many ways, it was like hundreds of pep talks and locker room speeches he’d given in nearly three decades as an NFL coach. Tony Dungy’s message was one of responsibility, of motivation, of not letting others — and yourself — down. As always, he was pointed and analytical, yet smooth and laid-back.

This time, however, Dungy’s audience wasn’t a highly paid collection of elite athletes. On this day Dungy — a little more than two years removed from becoming the first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl and less than three months after retiring as the leader of the Indianapolis Colts — was in a prison yard, the Bible tucked under his left arm.

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