Great take by BBS today on the coverage of Mike Tomlin.
Last year, Tony Dungy’s replacement in Indianapolis, Jim Caldwell (a black man from Wisconsin) coached his team in a Super Bowl. This year, Tomlin returned with the Steelers. Lovie Smith took his Bears back to the NFC Championship Game this season. Raheem Morris, coach of the under-funded and young Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was a Coach of the Year candidate.
Despite all these tremendous accomplishments, no one made a big deal about these men being black. This is the legacy left by Smith v. Dungy in Super Bowl XLI. No one seems to blink an eye anymore, at least noticeably in the media, that African Americans are not only coaching Super Bowl teams, but doing so on a frequent basis.
This is a truly amazing accomplishment; much more honorable and noteworthy than any silver trophy named after some dude named ‘Lombardi.’
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