NBC Should Dump Dungy -- He's a Distraction

Tony Dungy earned his fame as a football coach first, but since he retired from that job he has been treated as some kind of ethical guru by the meatheads at ESPN and the NFL Network. Dungy stood up for Michael Vick after Vick was convicted of running a dog fighting ring in which animals were brutally, viciously killed, and represented the early wave of black head coaches who had been denied equal treatment because of baseless assumptions about the connection between their ability and their color.

Now Dungy says that he would not have drafted Michael Sam, the SEC Defensive Player of the Year, because Sam came as gay before the draft and therefore would be "a distraction." To clear things up, Dungy said it was not Sam's homosexuality itself that would be a problem, but the "media attention" it would get.

Michael Sam 

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Media attention? 

The only reason the NFL exists is to get media attention. Tony Dungy's sole remaining employment relating to football is as a commentator on NBC. The NFL is, itself, nothing but a giant, expensive distraction. Every day is a "media circus" because the NFL makes all its money from television coverage.

If Dungy wants to avoid distractions, tell him to quit his job.