Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Dungy at Super Bowl LVII on prayer and faith in the NFL
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Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy joined us from Super Bowl LVII in Phoenix.
Coach Dungy is the first African American head coach to ever win a Super Bowl. He also won a Super Bowl as a player in 1978 as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the Sports Spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the sports |
| 0:12.9 | sports conversation. |
| 0:14.4 | Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 0:18.5 | Hey guys, we're at Super Bowl 57 here in Phoenix, Arizona, and I get to talk to my friend, Coach Dungy. |
| 0:23.3 | How are you, sir? |
| 0:23.9 | I'm well, Jason. |
| 0:24.9 | Great to see you. |
| 0:25.6 | Great to see you, too. |
| 0:27.1 | Just a few questions, I think, that were on my heart to talk to you about. |
| 0:30.1 | First was with the DeMar Hamlin incident, I think we saw an NFL and a world respond to prayer and to faith in a powerful way and in a different |
| 0:40.7 | way than we've seen in the past. |
| 0:42.3 | How encouraging was it for you to see sort of the outpouring of support and, you know, |
| 0:47.1 | maybe encouraging to see Faith kind of welcomed back in a little bit? |
| 0:50.2 | I think, Jason, Faith came into the picture because we really saw an incident where nobody knew what else to do. |
| 0:57.8 | It was out of our control, and people came together, and it was great to see. |
| 1:02.5 | When I was a young assistant coach, and there were some players who said, we want to get together after the games and pray. |
| 1:09.2 | We actually got a memo from the NFL. |
| 1:11.4 | Don't let your players do that. |
| 1:13.3 | This is not appropriate for the football field. |
| 1:16.1 | Take them to the locker room or you're going to be fine. |
| 1:18.7 | Well, now this happens, and the NFL says, hey, bring these players together. |
| 1:22.6 | Let's pray before the games. |
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