{"id":53,"date":"2007-01-23T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/23\/faith-over-football\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T22:57:22","slug":"faith-over-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/faith-over-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Over Football?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read an <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/playoffs06\/columns\/story?columnist=smith_michael&#038;id=2740318\">article on ESPN.com<\/a> about the two coaches in the Super Bowl coming up next week. As Michael Smith says, they have been talked about a lot because they are the first black coaches in the Super Bowl. Tony Dungy, the coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and Lovie Smith, coach of the Chicago Bears, are much more than just that. They are men of character:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dungy and Smith are role models, not just for coaches who look like them or men who look like them, but for all coaches and all men. They live their lives the right way, and as a result they do their jobs the same way. Their priorities are, in order: faith, their families and football. The outcome of the Super Bowl or any game does not define them. They personify words such as class, grace, dignity, honor and integrity. We all can draw inspiration from men such as these.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a role model is something that transcends the game. It&#8217;s great to hear about the accomplishments and character of these men off the field because it&#8217;s something so rarely seen in the spotlight: role models in athletics. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/playoffs06\/columns\/story?columnist=smith_michael&#038;id=2740318\">the full article on ESPN.com<\/a> to see what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read an article on ESPN.com about the two coaches in the Super Bowl coming up next week. As Michael Smith says, they have been talked about a lot because they are the first black coaches in the Super Bowl. Tony Dungy, the coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and Lovie Smith, coach of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fefnet","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}