Two black coaches will battle in Miami

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Smith, Dungy are first black coaches in Super Bowl

QUOTEIt took 41 years for a black head coach to make it all the way to the Super Bowl.

Lovie Smith did it Sunday on a snowy afternoon in Chicago. Four hours later, his good pal and mentor Tony Dungy joined him. Not one, but two black coaches meeting in the nation's biggest sporting spectacle.

It's historic. And it's about time.

Change has come appallingly slow. But now two of the most decent, deserving men have pushed the NFL forward.

And that is a very good thing.

"It means a lot," Dungy said after his Indianapolis Colts beat New England 38-34 in the AFC title game. "I'm very proud of being an African-American. I'm very proud of Lovie."

And Smith equally so of Dungy.

"We have to play someone and, in my perfect world, I would like to see the Colts be that team," Smith said after his Chicago Bears pummeled the New Orleans Saints 39-14.

"Tony Dungy has done an awful lot for our game," Smith said. "He hasn't had a chance to coach in the Super Bowl. I would love to see it."

Kind of cool how not only one black coach is going to Miami, but two are. Just unfortunate for Smith that Dungy will be hoisting that trophy. lol

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Damn shame that this is news still, but I am sure glad it happened...I can't think of two coaches, black white or other, that deserve to be there more...

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That's cool

I hope that the Bears smack the shit the shit out of Payton Manning and then rub his face in it.lol